494 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



oblong, acute, l 1 /^ to 2 lines long; petals red or reddish, about equaling the 

 sepals; capsule not exceeding the calyx; seeds with a marginal elevation. 



Beaten paths and by roadsides. Northern California. May. Introduced 

 from Europe, spreading slowly, but gradually becoming more common. 



Locs. Eureka, Tracy 2497; Shasta Springs, Jepson; Bedding, Baker fy Nutting; Bear Val- 

 ley, Nevada Co., Jepson; Denverton, Jepson; upper Napa Valley, Jepson; Mt. Eden, K. 

 Brandegee. 



Refs. SPERGULAEIA BUBRA J. & C. Presl, Fl. Ceeh. 94 (1819). Arenaria rubra L. Sp. PI. 

 423 (1753), type European. Var. PERENNANS Rob. in Gray, Syn. Fl. I 1 : 250 (1897). Tissa 

 rubra var. perennans Greene, Pitt. 2: 229 (1892). Lepigonum rubrum var. perennans Kindb. 

 Monog. 41 (1863), type from Sweden. 



3. S. Cleveland!! Rob. Perennial, the prostrate stems forming deep green 

 mats 5 to 13 inches broad; herbage viscid-glandular; leaves filiform, conspic- 

 uously fascicled in the axils, ascending, 6 to 9 lines long, all longer than the 

 internodes; flowers in terminal -cymes; sepals oblong, acute, 2 lines long; 

 corolla white, about equaling the calyx ; seeds winged or not winged, even 

 in the same pod. 



Sandy soil near the ocean: San Diego and San Francisco cos. 



Loes. San Francisco, Jepson; Chula Vista, Geo. B. Grant 1238; San Diego, T. Brandegee; 

 National City, Abrams 3525. 



Refs. SPERGULARIA CLEVELANDII Rob. Proe. Am. Acad. 29: 310 (1894). Tissa clevelandii 

 Greene, Fl. Fr. 127 (1891), type loc. San Diego, Cleveland. T. villosa Britt. Bull. Torr. Club, 

 16: 129 (1889). T. rubra K. Brandegee, Zoe, 4: 84 (1893). 



4. S. salina J. & C. Presl. Stems branching, erect, or sometimes diffuse 

 and prostrate, 3 to 8 inches long; herbage somewhat fleshy, nearly glabrous 

 or lightly pubescent; leaves narrowly linear, % to 1% inches long, commonly 

 shorter than the internodes; flowers in terminal cymes, the branches often 

 racemose; pedicels leafy-bracted or the upper bractless, not exceeding the 

 capsules; sepals oblong-ovate, obtusish, scarious-margined, 2 lines long, the 

 petals nearly as long; capsule slightly longer than the calyx. 



Alkaline plains of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, westward to the salt 

 marshes near the coast, and south to Southern California. North Atlantic 

 Coast. Europe. May-Aug. 



Locs. Calistoga, Tracy 1858; Denverton, Jepson; Stockton, Sanford; Walnut Creek, Jep- 

 son; San Felipe, Santa Clara Co., Jepson; West Berkeley, Tidestrom; Alameda, Jepson; Los 

 Angeles, Geo. B. Grant 4583; West Riverside, F. M. Reed. 



Var. sordida Jepson n. comb. Leaves dark with a heavy glandular indu- 

 ment; branches of the cymes secund, rather dense. Marshes about San Fran- 

 cisco Bay (Alameda, Searsville). 



Refs. SPERGULARIA SALINA J. & C. Presl, Fl. Cech. 95 (1819), type European; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 156 (1911). Tissa marina Britt. Bull. Torr. Club, 16: 126 (1889), not 

 Tissa salina Britt. T. salina var. sanfordi Greene, Fl. Fr. 129 (1891), type loc. lower San 

 Joaquin. Var. SORDIDA Jepson. Tissa salina var. sordida Greene, 1. c., type loc. Bay Farm 

 Island. 



5. S. tennis Rob. Annual ; stems dichotomously and copiously branched 

 from the base, erect or diffuse, 3 to 5 inches high, the branches slender and 

 internodes long; herbage scarcely fleshy, lightly viscid-puberulent ; leaves 

 linear-filiform, 4 to 7 lines long, shorter than the internodes; flowers % to 1 

 line long, in terminal cymes, numerous, short-pediceled, the uppermost sessile 

 in close clusters ; sepals oblong-ovate ; stamens 2 to 5 ; capsule twice as long 

 as the fruiting sepals or nearly. 



Saline plains, Sacramento Valley southward to Southern California. 



Locs. Willows, Jepson; Newark, Davy 1113; San Felipe, Santa Clara Co., Jepson; Delano, 

 Kern Co., Davy 2438; (?) Barstow, Jepson 4797; Santa Monica (ace. Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 

 149). 



