8o Portulacaceae 



plant may occur elsewhere in the region 

 but has not been observed; flowers in 

 June. 



PORTULACACE^ 



Purslane Family 



Fleshy herbaceous plants, with regular 

 perfect, unsymmetrical flowers; sepals com- 

 monly 2 ; petals 4 or 5 , folded together, sta- 

 mens equal in number to the petals or fewer. 



Claytonia Stem 3~ inches high from a 

 lanceolata round corm. Leaves oblong or 

 Pursh. lanceolate, J-iJ inches long. 



Spring Flowers nearly half an inch 



Beauty. 



broad, few to several in a loose. 



head, on slender pedicels ; petals notched at 

 the end or almost obcordate, white with 

 pink veins. 



One of the first plants to appear in spring 

 on the edges of the snow-banks, through- 

 out the region, from the lower altitudes up 

 to the alpine summits, flowering throughout 



