157 



ish-y, marcescent-persistent: sta in- 

 numerable: fil widely dilated: carpels 

 many, the short torulose poJs scarcely 

 ?er than the persistent linear stig- 

 mas/' Greene, Pittonia 2:13. jK.ejV* 

 co> CaL ' 



EKlCK.uNUM Nol):s(\M ^mall. 



-A white-tomentose shrub. 5-1.5 me- 

 ters tall, with spreading, forking branch- 

 es. Leaves .m.11, 2-6 mm. long; blades 



elliptic or elliptie-ovaie acutish revu- 



, . , . 



lute, narrowed into short petioles: bracts 



scale-like, acule or acuminate: involucies 

 turb nate-campanulate, 25 mm. long, 

 angled, sessile: segments broad, much 

 shorter tnan the tube; calices glabrous 

 pink, 3 mm lung; segments rounded at 

 the apex, the * outer oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, the 3 inner cuneate: filaments 

 viHous below the middle: achenes 3 -an- 

 gled spabro-pubescent above the midl 



d <V Small, Torr club b 15:49 (25 }a 



_ J 



). C1J. 



root; herbage deep K a" I 



cent; Ivs naYrowl? Hntar l- 



pedicels is 3-6 iTlong ep $ \ li lc ''"' 



scarious-margined pet as lone Din'-' 



capsule about equaling ex: sis with or 



without a wing, even in the same cai- 



sule. 



Abrams, Fl LA 14S. 



;lt maturity; pe;licels short; s Is smooth, 

 margined or marginless, or roughened 

 with projecting points. Along the AC- 

 lantic . an l Pacific coasts of Am. 



Lepigonurn medium of NA authors. 

 TIP^A. VALIDA Greene. 



lto 2* r S?SJK2t M&SSSfiSS. 



P- e r branching root: stems stout, 



KRAMERIA PARVIFOLIA Benth. 



I3entha,rn, But c<uipn 6 (,!S-i-i>. 



Type locality: "Bay of Magdalena," 

 Baja. 



Mohave; Ut; Nev; NM; CD, SD C. ; 

 Son. 



.-v rigid diffusely branched shrub, 1-2 

 ft hi, with silky appressed pubescence, 

 the slender divaricate branchlets often 

 spinose: ivs linear, 4-8 li long; the low- 

 er obtuse, often sm and ovate to oblong, 

 the upper aculeately tipped, and, with 

 the infl, usually sprinkled with short 

 rigid gland-bearing hairs: fls 2-4 li 

 long; peds with 2-3 pairs of If-like 

 bracts: the ovate silky sep p within: 

 pet with claws united nearly to the top, 

 the middle blade narrow: sta nearly 

 free: fr with num very lender prickles 

 retrorsely barbed their whole length, 

 cordate-globose, 4 li long, shortly 

 acuminate, obscurely ridged on each 



Side. 



Genus TISSA Adams. 



Low or ann per herbs with flesh.y linear 

 or setaceous Ivs, and sm pink or whit- 

 ish fls in terminal racemose, bracted or 

 leafy cymes: Stipules scarious, usually 

 conspicuous: Sep 5: pet 5, fewer or 0, 

 entire: Sta 2-10: Ova 1-celled, many- 

 ovuled; sty 3: Cap 3-valved to the base: 

 Sds reniform-globose or compressed, 

 smooth, winged or tuberculate. 



Buda Adans. 



Spergularia Prsh. 

 TISSA MACROTHECA Britton. 



Abrams. Fl LA 149. "Common in salt 

 marshes and alkaline flats. My-Jl." 



Sts stout. 7-12 i hi, erect or ascending 

 from the short, often branched, woody 

 crown of a very thick and fleshy tap- 



%"* ft high, the in tern odes 1-1V 2 inches 

 long: herbage altogether pale, and 

 - i.-mrrr -r-uJ-eseert -vith short spread- 



^ t ^^ t SS&SS%STSS!: Se 



middle: sepals oblong-lanceolate, rath- 

 er exceeding the valves of the ovate 

 capsule: seeds black and almost shining, 

 mostly destitute of wing." Greene, 

 Erythea 1:107, Cruz. 

 TISSA. TENUIS Greene. 



Lepigonum tenue Greene, Pitt 1:63. 



Abrams, Fl LA 149. Monica (Nevin). 



Cap 6-8 mm long, twice the length of 

 the ex. SBar. 

 CAJL.ANDKINIA CAULESCENS HBK. 



HBK, nov Gen 6:77. 



Howell Erythea 1:33. "Glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent, branching from the 

 base; decumbent st 3-10 i long; ped 

 erect or ascenling: sep ovate, acute; pet 

 broadly obovate, 3-5 li long; sd shining. 

 Near the coast from BC to South Am. 

 Variety MENZIEffTT A. Gray. 



Abrams Fl LA 140. 



Calandrinia elegaus Spach. 



Calnn Irinin Mpnr.i^sii T & G. 

 CALANDRINIA MENZIESII Hook. 



See Calanlrinia caulescens Menziesii. 

 CALANDRINIA ELEGANS Spach. 



Davidson, PI LA Co 3. 



C noilioqs.pTi.gi Mrnzl-sii. 



CALANDRINIA MARITIMA Nutt. 



Abrams, Fl LA 141. Monica (Daviil- 

 son). 



Sts glaucous, depressed, 6-10 cm long: 

 Ivs mostly rosulate at base., obovate to 

 obovate-spatulate, upper bract-like: fls 

 in a loose naked cyme: ex ovate, acute, 

 about 3 mm long; pet 5-6 mm long, 

 rose-p: cap ovoid, 4 mm long, acutish: 

 sis dull grayish. 

 CALANDRINIA AMBIGUA Howell. 



riaytonia ambigua S. Wats Am ac pr 

 18:3fo. 



Calandrinia sesuvioides Gray Am ac 

 pr 22:278. 



"Depressed and spreading from a 

 stout root: seps broadly ovate: pets 

 obovate, white: seeds shining. Colorado 



