CUiytonia. rollTULACACEyK. 75 



Sunfa Ifiez Moiiiituiii.s, near Santa Biirfiara, lirnm-. The spocinipiis collected are a foot tall or 

 more, the racemes elongated. 



3. C. maritima, Nutt. (ilaucous: sU'ins aproadinf,', 3 or 4 incho^s liigh, with 

 small bract-like leaves ftbovo the base : lower leaves obovato or obovate -spatulate, an 

 inch long, fleshy, obtuse: flowers in a loose dichotomous terminal panicle, on slender 

 pedicels, " red, rather large and showy " : sepals ovate, acute : capsule oblong-ovate, 

 2 lines long, exceeding the sepals, acutish. — Torr. <fe Gray, Fl. i. 197. 



San Diego {Nuttnll) ; Coronadoa Islands, Thnrhrr. A liftlo known species. 



* * Alpine })lan(x villi, (hid- findfonn root.i, the srape-like lunxf/i/ \-jlmi'ereil Kteiim 

 xlinrter than the lenvex: petals G to H : seeds hlark and shininrj, not tnhercnlate. 



4. C. pygmaea, (Jray. Smooth : leaves all radical, linear, 1 or 2 inches long, 

 with broad scariously winged underground j>etioles : scapes mostly simple, 1 or 2 

 inches high, with a pair of small scarious bracts: sepals suborbicular, glandular- 

 dentate, 2 or 3 lines long: petals red: ovules 15 to 20: capsule obtuse, nearly 

 equalling the calyx. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 623. Talinum pt/fjm^um, Gray in 

 Am. Jour. Sci. 2 ser. xxxiii. 407 ; Watson, T>ot. King Exp. 42, in part. 



In tlic Sierra Nevada on the Yosemite Trail, at 8,000 feet altitude (/?o/a)i^<;r) ; Mt. byell 

 {Muir) ; northward to Wnsliington Territory, and in the mountains eastward to Colorado and 

 Southern Utah. 



5. C. Nevadensis, Gray, 1. c. Closely resembling the la.<:t, but somewhat 

 larger : scajies I to 3 inches higb, with a jiair of larger leafy bracts, 1 - 3-flowered : 

 sepals entire, 3 or 4 lines long: petals white: ovides 30 to 40. — Talinum pijgvKFum, 

 Watson, 1. c, in part. 



In the Sierra Nevada; Cisco {Krllngq); Sunnnit {lh)Ian(i('r)\ I'liimns Co. {Mrs. J^uhi/rr /fnui); 

 and ea,stward in the K. Ilumlxddt and Wnlisntcli Mountains, IJ'ntsfin. 



3. CLAYTONIA, Linn. 



Sepals 2, persistent. Petals 5, etpial. Stamens 5. Ovary free, few-ovuled : 



style 3-cleft. Capsule membmnaceous, globose or ovoid, 3-valved. Seeds few, 



black and shining. — Low glabrous succulent herbs ; with opposite or alternate 



leaves, and delicate white or rose-colored flowers m loose terminal or axillary, simple 



or compound naked racemes, or sometimes umbellate, la-sting more than one day. 



A genus of about 20 species, belonging principally to the cooler portions of North America ami 

 northeastern Asia. The species are most numerous in western North America. 



* Annuals, ivith fibrmis roots. 



-•- Stems simple, hearing a single pair of leaves which are often, connate. 



1. C. perfoliata, Donn. Stems 2 to 12 inches high: radical leaves long- 

 petioled, broadly rliomboidal, or deltoid, or dnltoid-cordate, i^ to 3 inches broad, 

 obtuse ; the caulino i)air more or less united upon one or both sides, usually forming 

 a single somewhat orbicular perfoliate leaf, \ to 2 iiiches in diameter, concave above : 

 race.Tnes simple or compound, usually nearly ses.sile and loosely flowered, the short 

 pedicels often eecund : petals a lino or two long : capsule about 3 seeded. — Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1330. C. Crihensis, Bonpl. PI. ^':quin. t. 2G. 



Var. parviflora, Torr. Padical leaves all linear or linoarspatulate ; the cauline 

 perfoliate. — Pacif. K. Pep. iv. 71. C. parvijlnra, Doug].; Hook. I'l. i. 22ri, t. 73. 

 (1. (jypsophiloides, JMscher k ^leyer; Sweet, Brit. 1""1. (Jnrd. 2 kit. t. 37r). Regol, 

 Sort." P(>tr<ip. t. 3i. 



Var. spathulata, Torr. 1. c. Low and often very slender : radical leaves linear; 

 the cauline pair distinct or partially united on one side, ovat« to lanceolate, usually 

 much shorter than the raceme.- C. spathnlafn. Pongl.; Hook. FI. i. 225, t. 74. 



