CALANDBiNiA. PORTULACAOEiE, 93 



TALINUM. 



§ 2. Capsule S-valved, S-several-aeeded. Sepals 2, green herb- 

 aceous, becoming more or less colored. 



4 OALANDRINIA HBK. Nov. Gen. vi, 77 in part. 



Succulent herbs with alternate leaves and ephemeral flowers in 

 bracted racemes. Sepals 2, subequal, persistent. Petals 3-7. 

 Stamens 3-10, seldom of the same number as the petals, appar-" 

 ently always hypogynous. Capsule 3-valved from the summit, 

 persistent, several-seeded. Seeds black, minutely tuberculate. 

 Our species annuals. 



C. canlescens HBK. 1. c. Glabrous or slightly pubescent ; stems dif- 

 fusely branching from the base, decumbent, 3-8 inches long : leaves lin- 

 ear to lanceolate, 1-3 inches long, the lower slender petioled: racemes 

 simple : peduncles erect or ascending: buds 4-angled: sepals oyate acute, 

 strongly carinate, the keel ciliate : petals broadly obbvate, 2-6 lines long : 

 capsule ovate, acute or acuminate, the valves becoming somewhat in- 

 durated, about equalling the sepals. Eoadsides and moist places, Brit. 

 Columbia to South America. 



C. micrautha Schl. Linnsea xiii. Lit. Ber. 97. Diffusely branched 

 from the base ; stems slender, decumbent or ascending, 2-6 inches long : 

 leaves linear, ciliate on the margins and midrib : racemes simple : pedicels 

 ascending : sepals broadly lanceolate, acuminate, lJ^-2 lines long ; petals 

 3-7, about a line long : capsule ovate,' acute, equalling, the sepals. Moist 

 sandy places along the Columbia river. 



5 TALINUM Adanson Fam. des PI. ii, 145. 



Low glabrous herbs, rarely sufFrutescent at base with mostly 

 linear leaves without stipules and usually white or red flowers in 

 paniculate racemes. Sepals 2, deciduous. Petals 5, sessile, hyp- 

 ogynous, stamens 10-30, adherent to the bape of the petals. 

 Style trifld. Capsule globose, 3-valved from the top, many- 

 seeded. Seeds smooth. 



T. spinescens Torr. Bot. Wilkes xvii, 250. Gaudex short, succulent, 

 beget with small subulate spines which are the indurated arid persistent, 

 midribs of former leaves : leaves terete, 6 lines long: scapiform, peduncles 

 slender, surpassing the leaves : flowers in terminal paniculate naked 

 cyines : petals rose-red : stamens 20-30. Wenatchee Mourltains, Wash- 

 ington. 



6 CLAYTONIA L. in Gronov. Fl. Virg. 25. 



Low glabrous acaulescent succulent perennial herbs with sea- 

 pose stems from a fleshy tuber or roots bearing a pair of, at least 

 when young, opposite leaf-like bracts subtending the loose ter- 

 minal naked racemes or umbels of delicate white or rose-color 

 flowers that open for more than one day. Sepals 2, persistent. 

 Petals 5, equal. Stamens 5, inserted on the claws of the petals. 

 Qvary free, several-ovuled. Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds compressed, shining. 



* §ten)S and leaves from a deep-seated corm. 



C. lanceolata Pursh. Fl. 175. Scapose stems 3-6 inches high : leaves 

 narrowly lanceolate, 1-2 inches long, usually wanting on flowering speci- 

 mens) ; involucral leaves sessile, from narrowly lanceolate to oblong, 1 or 2 

 inches long: racemes few-flowered and cyniose with a single scarious bract at 



