Portulacaceae i 149 
BB. Ovary adherent to the calyx along at least its lower half; most of the leaves 
scattered along the stem. PORTULACA (p. 151) 
AA. Sepals scarious at least at margin; styles or stigmas 2. 
H. Stamens 3, longer than the petals and opposite the 3 larger ones; style very 
long, filiform; capsule globose-ovate. SPRAGUEA (p. 149) 
HH. Stamen |, shorter than the petals and alternate with them; style very short or 
hardly any; capsule linear or oval. CALYPTRIDIUM (p. 149) 
TALINUM ROCK PINK 
Annual or perennial, glabrous, fleshy. Stems scapose or fleshy, erect or ascending. 
Leaves alternate, terete or flat, often clustered at the base of the stem; stipules none. 
Flowers chiefly in cymes or racemes or panicles. Sepals 2, ovate, deciduous. Petal 5, 
fugacious, usually white or red. Stamens 20—30 in ours, adherent to the petal-bases. 
Styles 3-lobed or -cleft. Capsule ovoid or oval or globose (ours), 3-valved. Seeds 
numerous, smooth. (The native name of an African species.) E. 
T. spinescens Torr. 
CALANDRINIA RED 
Annual (ours), juicy. Leaves alternate (ours). Flowers in bracted racemes, 
ephemeral, red or rose-colored. Sepals 2, subequal, persistent. Petals 3-7. Stamens 
3—10, rarely the same number as the petals. Capsule 3-valved from the summit, per- 
sistent. Seeds several, black, minutely tuberculate. (Honor of J. L. Calandrini, a Swiss 
botanist.) W. (C. micrantha; C. caulescens menziesii.) 
C. caulescens HBK. 
SPRAGUEA 
Roots fleshy. Leaves either in a basal tuft or densely covering the stem.~ Flowers 
ephemeral, in scorpoid cymes; cymes dense, clustered; clusters umbel-like, on scape-like 
stems. Sepals 2, orbicular, emarginate at both ends, scarious-hyaline, persistent. Petals 
4, somewhat unequal. Stamens 3, opposite the 3 larger petals, exserted. Style long, 
bifid at apex. Capsule 2-valved, membranous. Seeds 6—10, black, shining. Near 
summer snow-line. (Honor of a Mr. Sprague, a botanical artist who illustrated Gray’s 
Botanies.) W.C.E. (S. umbellata.) 
S. multiceps How. 
CALYPTRIDIUM 
Annual, smooth. Leaves alternate, fleshy. Flowers small, ephemeral, in scorpoid 
spikes; spikes clustered; clusters axillary or terminal, dense, compound. Sepals 2, mostly 
unequal, ovate or orbicular, more or less scarious. Petals 2—4. Stamens |—3, shorter 
than the petals and alternate with them. Capsule membranous, 2-valved. Seeds 6—12, 
basal, black, shining, circinate, compressed. In dry soil. (Gk. calypterion—a covering. 
Why?) E. C. roseum Wats. 
CLAYTONIA SPRING BEAUTY 
Perennial, juicy, glabrous; with corm or thickened caudex. Stem-leaves 2, opposite 
(1—3 and alternate in C. megarrhiza) ; basal leaves 1 or more. Flowers white or yellow 
or rose-color, in racemes; racemes simple or paniculate, terminal, naked, loose. Sepals 2, 
persistent. Petals always 5, free, equal, conspicuous. Stamens always 5. Style 3- 
