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culate, small, dull black. In wet places, Columbia river valley from The 

 Dalles westward. 



M. linearis Greene Fl. Francis. 181. Claytonia linearis Dougl. Stems 

 erect or spreading 2-6 inches long, branching from the base : leaves lin- 

 ear, sessile by a clasping base, 1-3 inches long, flowers in lax terminal 

 often secund racemes : stamens 3, (rarely 2 or 5) : sepals broadly elliptical, 

 2 lines long, often partly scarious and colored ; petals a little longer : seeds 

 black and lustrous, a line broad, the largest in the genus, flat and sharply 

 margined. In moist or wet places, Vancouver Island to northern 

 California. 



•H- •"- Stamens 5, seeds closely striate and transversely lineolate. 

 M. diifasa Greene 1. c. Annual, stems procumbent diffusely branched : 

 2 inches to a span long : leaves broadly ovate or deltoid, abruptly attenuate 

 Hit^agietiole, J^-1 inch broad: racemes' very numerous, terminal and 

 lateral^ subcorymbose ; pedicels slender, at length recurved, the lowest 

 one and:o#teB several of the upper ones braoteate : petals emarginat-e, 2 

 lines long, a little longer than the calyx. In forests and shady or rocky 

 places near the mouth of the "Willamette river to northern California. 



* * Leafy-stemmed perennials, stoloniferous or bulbiferous; ra- 

 cemes terminal and axillary, not involucrate-bracted : petals 5, 

 scarcely unequal: stamens 5. 



t- Stems filiform : leaves alternate ; racemes terminal. 

 M. paryifolla Greene 1. c. Stems filiform 2-10 inches long ; leaves 

 fleshy, lower clustered, oblanceolate or spatulate, 5-18 lines long; cauline 

 much smaller, usually with leafy bulblets in their axiles : racemes ter- 

 minal few-flowered : some or all of the pedicels subtended by scarious 

 bracts : sepals broadly ovate obtuse, a line long: petals oblanceolate, emar- 

 giriate Abou^ springs and vvet places, California to Alaskc 



■*- -<- Leaves opposite : racemes axillary. 

 M. Chaniissonis Greene 1. c. 180. Stems weak and slender, erect or 

 decumbent, a footer less high, stoloniferous and rooting at the joints: 

 leaves oblanceolate or spatulate /4-^/4 inches long ; often with bulblets in 

 their axiles : racemes few- flowered with a scarious bract at base ; flowers 

 on slender pedicels : sepals orbicular 1}4 lines wide : petals white, 3 or 4 

 lines long. In wet places, Alaska to California, east to the Eocky 

 Mountains. 



M. Hallii Greene 1. c. A span high, destitute of stolons or bulblets : 

 leaves only 2 or 3 pairs : pedicels in fruit ascending : calyx barely a line 

 long: seeds muriculate. Wet ground, Willamette valley. 



* * * Leaves all radical : stems soapiform : racemes involucrate, 

 petals and stamens 5 each. 



-1- Involucral bracts more or less united into a disk, other and 

 smaller bracts above them; annuals, apparently confluent in a series. 

 M. perfoliata Howell 1. c. 38. Claytonia perfoliata Bonn Willd. Sp. ii, 

 1186. Scapose stems 6-12 inches high: leaves long petioled, ovate to del- 

 toid usually acute J<-3 inches broad : light green : involucral bracts com- 

 pletely joined together forming a perfoliate shallow-funnelform disk: 

 flowers in short or long peduncled intertupted elongated racemes : sepals 

 ovate 1-114 lines long ; petals a half longer : seeds rather small, black and 

 lustrous, lenticular. Common in shady moist places, Vancouver Island 

 to California and the Eocky Mountains, also Mexico and Chile. 



M. parvlflora Howell 1; c. Claytonia parviflora Dougl. Leaves light 

 green, spatulate to filiform, including the petiole 2-6 inches long : scapose 

 stems 2-8 inches long, involucral bracts joined together on one or both 

 sides into a pel-foliate or clasping or shallow disk ; flowers In sessile or 

 short-peduneled racemes ; eepals ovite, a line long i petals but little longer i 



