Claytonia. PORTULACACE^E. 75 



Santa Inez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, Brewer. The specimens collected are a foot tall or 

 more, the racemes elongated. 



3. C. maritima, Xutt. Glaucous : stems spreading, 3 or 4 inches high, with 

 small bract-like leaves above the base : lower leaves obovate 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. & Gray, Fl. i. 197. 



San Diego (Xuttall) ; Coronados Islands, Thurbcr. A little known species. 



* * Alpine plants with thick fusiform roots, the scape-like mostly l-fiowered stems 

 shorter than the leaves: petals 6 to 8: seeds black and shining, not tuberculate. 



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

 with broad scariuusly winged underground petioles : 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 pygnueum, Gray in 

 Am. Jour. Sci. 2 ser. xxxiii. 407 ; "Watson, Bot. King Exp. 42, in part. 



In the Sierra Nevada on the Yosemite Trail, at 8,000 feet altitude (Bolandcr) ; Mt. Lyell 

 (Muir) ; northward to Washington Territory, and in the mountains eastward to Colorado and 

 Southern Utah. 



5. C. Nevadensis, Gray, 1. c. Closely resembling the last, but somewhat 

 larger : scapes 1 to 3 inches high, with a pair of larger leafy bracts, 1 - 3-flowered : 

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

 Watson, 1. c, in part. 



In the Sierra Nevada ; Cisco (Kellogg) ; Summit (Bolandcr) ; Plumas Co. (.Vrs. Pulsifcr Auks) ; 

 and eastward in the E. Humboldt and Wahsatch Mountains, Watson. 



3. CLAYTONIA, Linn. 



Sepals 2, persistent. Petals 5, equal. Stamens 5. Ovary free, few-ovule 1 : 



style 3-cleft. Capsule membranaceous, 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 in loose terminal or axillary, simple 



or compound naked racemes, or sometimes umbellate, lasting more than one day. 



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

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



* Annuals, with fibrous roots. 



+- Stems simple, bearing a single pair <f leans which are often connate. 



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

 petioled, broadly rhomboids!, or deltoid, or deltoid-cordate, J to 3 inches broad, 

 obtuse ; the cauline pair more or less united upon one or both sides, usually forming 

 a single somewhat orbicular perfoliate leaf, .'. i" 2 inches in diameter, concave above : 

 racemes simple or compound, usually nearly sessile and loosely Dowered, the short 

 pedicels often secund : petals a lino or two long: capsule about 3-seeded. — But. 

 Mag. I. 1336. C. Cuboids, BonpL PL iEquin. t. 26. 



Var. parviflora, Torr. Radical leaves all linear or linear-spatulate : the cauline 

 perfoliate. — I'aeif. I;. Uep. iv. 71. <'. /mrnflora, Dough; Hook. Fl. i. 225, t. 7-".. 

 c. gypsophiloides, Fischer & Meyer j Sweet, Brit. Fl. (lard. 2 ser. t. 375. Kegel, 

 Sort. Petrop. I. 34. 



Var. spathulata, Torr. I. e. Low and often very slender: radical leaves lit! 

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

 much shorter than the raceme. — C. spathulata, Dough; Hook. Fl. i. 225, t. 7 1. 



