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142, Ciytanss sancti ica (Adams), var. megarhiza: foliis caulinis ei 
latis seu lineari-spathulatis basi attenuatis quasi pe 
racemo fates folia subsessili (an semper ?). C. megarhiza, Parry in Tit, 
a name very probably to be adopted. “ High alpine oon sie extending - ’ 
to the crest of the snowy range 5) ‘flowers from June to August. Grows 
in crevices of rocks, its large tap root i cme'enee de to . ere = 
Flowers, profuse, white with greenish-purple veins.’ ange pe rpen 
ieular root (about, an inch in diameter), with th ical eaves aed 
flowers, are just as in large specimens . Joan , Rem. & Schult. © 
(C. acutifolia, Ledeb. Fi. Alt. and Ic. Pl. Ross., t. 372, non Pall. Willd.) 
of which, confirmed by Trautvetter in Fl. Taim myrensis conclude that” &y 
C. arctica, Adams (published two years earlier) is o more arct 
form. But the leaves of the cauline pair in our plant are much longer 
and narrower, tapering into a petiole, an ng they geal: ret the short 
raceme; wherefore this fine plant would most natur and perhaps 
more correctly, be = as specifically distinct trot V3 arctic-alpine 
Siberian one; in which view Dr. Parry’s name is appropriate for it. 
have seen no intermediate form. But after the experience we have had 
ea the variability of the foliage of Claytonias, I prefer to risk the view 
ere tal 
ided by Dr. Parry’s excellent anes I have ndW srlge es my 
notes upon Pursh’s C. lanceolata (wh been su a puzzle), 
and upon the related poy et ib ll be seen ton Pursh’s 
name, descriptive ph figure do not re also that he adds, 
“Pall. MSS.,” and states ae found in herb b. Lamb. “a specimen 
collected by Pallas in the eastern a of Siberia, perfectly agreeing 
with the present species,’—doubtless the C. Joanneana, Roem. & Sch., 
of which I have seen Pallasian specimens. I have reason to think that 
Pursh’s Pa ad fm made up from this Pallasian specimen and from the 
materials h so perh i 
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ot of the nO te a ‘not “ ovate,” and are narrower than T ee cugicted 
_ them in any Siberian specimens,—in which, however, they are said to _ 
vary from ovate to Fane the naked corm, resembling” that of @. 
e Rocky 
: roliniana, bat with sessile, oblong, 
Taear oblaliaes io Tinea lanceolate leaves, when dry 3-nerved from 
ooker’s Flora, and the @. Carolini- 
.Rep., 4, p. 70. Now, my notes, 
‘s waterials in the Lambertian her- 
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