42 BOTANY. 



Strait; California, (Brewer;) New Mexico, (Fendler,) and Colorado. Found 

 in the Walisatch Mountains, Utah ; 8,000 feet altitude ; July. (175.) 



Sagina nivalis. Fries (?) Csespitose ; stems very short, erect ; leaves 

 subulate, mucronate, glabrous ; peduncles short, strict ; sepals 5, ovate, ob- 

 tuse, with membranous margins, scarcely equaling the petals. — The single 

 specimen accords well with Norway specimens from Blytt, in Herb. Eaton., 

 but differs from the character in its pointless leaves, and petals shorter than 

 the calyx. Stems very short, scarcely ^ high, erect ; leaves more subulate 

 than in the last ; sepals margined with purple, broad-ovate and very obtuse. 

 Uinta Mountains, Utah ; 12,000 feet altitude ; August. (176.) 



Speegulaeia media, Presl. On the coast and in salt marshes from Florida 

 to Newfoundland, in Central British America from Lake Winnipeg to Bear 

 Lake, and from Washington Territory to California. Found at a salt spring 

 in Parley's Park, (Wahsatch Mountains,) Utah ; 6,000 feet altitude ; June, 

 July. (177.) 



PORTULACACE^. 



Poetulaca oleeacea, L. Near Unionville, Nevada. (W. W. Bailey.) 

 Introduced. (178.) 



Talinum pygm^um, Grray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 7. 332. Acaulescent; 

 root fusiform ; the linear leaves and 1-3-flowered scapes (1-2' high) crowded; 

 sepals orbicular, glandular-dentate or entire, persistent ; petals white or rose- 

 color, 5-6 ; stamens 4-7 ; stigmas 3-5 ; seeds few (6) to many. — With 

 wholly the habit of a Claytonia; petals slightly united at base, unequal. 

 Rocky Mountains, Colorado ; Sierra Nevada, California ; Cascade Mountains, 

 Washington Territory. Usually alpine or subalpine ; in the East Humboldt 

 Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6-10,000 feet alti- 

 tude; June-August. (179.) 



Claytonia Caeoliniana, Michx., Var. lanceolata. (C. lanceolata, 

 Pursh.) Cauline leaves ovate, lanceolate, or linear, sessile or short-petioled ; 

 petals more or less emarginate or entire, rose-color or white. — This can 

 hardly be more than a variety of the eastern species. The leaves are very 

 variable in width, but never exceeding 1-2' in length ; the venation is the 

 same in both forms. Northern Arizona, (Ives,) and the Rocky Mountains 

 of Colorado and northward to lat. 52°. Havallah Range and East Hum- 



