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Liiiiiiia mibiftC'iia (Greene) 



Clayionia nubigena Cireene, Fitlonia *4: 294. 1892. 



No. 861 1, collected May 31, near the summit of Mt. Ham- 

 ilton, Santa Clara county, elevation 4000 feet, on a northerly 

 slope under oak trees in damp soil, the plants low and rosette- 

 like in growth. Noticed at only one place, although it may be 

 abundant on the mountain. The type was collected on Mt. 

 Tamalpais, but specimens from Mt. Diablo and Mt. Hamilton 

 are also mentioned. 



LiMNiA PERFOUATA (Doun) Haw. Syn. PI. Succ. 12. 



Claytonia perfoliata Donn, Ind. Hort. Cantab. 25. 1796. 



Motitia perfoliata Howell, Erythea 1: 38. 1893. 



No. 8487, collected April 27, back of Alum Rock Park, 

 Santa Clara county, elevation about 700 feet, in moist shaded | 

 places in the woods, growing in leaf mould. A large but rather | 

 weak plant, the sepals usually brown but sometimes green. The 

 same thing was seen later on Stevens Creek in the Santa Crrz 

 mountains, and it is evidently a woodland form. Although it 

 does not agree very well with the description of typical perfoh- 

 ata^ the type of which was collected by Menzies, probably fur- 

 ther north than California, it is referred here for the present. 



Liiniiia ciiprea 



Diffu.se, growing in mat-like masses, the stems 2 dm. high 

 or less, the whole plant coppery or bronze colored: leaves fleshy 

 indistinctly veined; basal leaves up to 7 cm. long, nearly all pet- 

 iole, the blade rhombic-ovate, about 13 mm. long, 18 mm. wide, 

 apiculate; stem leaf situated above the middle of the stem, or- 

 bicular in outline, connate-perfoliale, 3 cm. or less in diameter: 

 inflorescence of about five umbellate clusters of five to ten flow- 

 ers, the lowest subtended by the stem leaf, the internodes i cm. 

 or a little more in length except the lowest, which is about three 

 times the length of the others, bracts none: pxlicels filiform, 

 6 mm. long, three times the length of the fruiting calyx: calyx 

 2 mm. long, the sepals convex externally, round-ovate, obscurely 



