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to the others. So that, If we rely on the deflnite number of seeds, we must place both B . mia aMla
and Acrolasia m Mentzelia.
T a . LXXXV. Pig. 1 . Flower, with floral lea f, fig . 2. Flower, fig . 3. Inner stamen ; fig . 4 & 5, Outer
or petaloid stamen i fig . 6 . Young fru it, fig . 7, Seeds ; fig . 8. Hairs from the branchlets near the flowers ,
ß g . 9. Portion of the same.
O r d . X X I I I . P O R T U L A C E Æ . Juss.
1. Claytonia tenuifolia (T o rr. et Gray) , annua, radice fibrosa, caulibus plurimis simplicibus
filiformibus, foliis anguste linearibus, radicalibus sensim in petiolum longum
attenuatis, caulinis duobus oppositis sessilibus basi bine subconnatis racemo terminali
subumbe llato sessili unibrac te ato multo longioribus, petalis oblongis calycem superantibus.
Torr. et Gray, Fl. l . p . 201.
2. C. lanceolata. Pursh.
H a b . Snake Country. M r Tolmie.
3. C. spathulata. Dougl. in Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 1. p . 220.— ß. major, caulibus 3-4-
, uncias longis, foliis caulinis lanceolatis.— -/. exigua, caulibus gracilibus, foliis caulinis
sublinearibus.— C. exigua. Torr. et Gray, FL l . p . 200.
1. C a lan d rin ia Menziesii. Hook, in Torr. et Gray, FL 1. p . 197.— C. speciosa. Lin d l.
Bot. Reg. t. 1598. Torr. et Gray, I. c. [non Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 337 9 .)— T alin um M en ziesii.
Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. l . p . 223. t. 70.
Onn. ? P O R T U L A C E I ^ o ffn is. (S pæ ta lüm eæ . Nutt.)
1. L ew m a rediviva. P u rsh— Hook. Bot. M isc. I. p. 344. i. 7 0 . Nutt. FL Rock Mount
p . 24, ( T a b . L X X X V L )
H a b . Common throughout the interior o f the Snake Country. M r Tolmie.
The specimens from the Snake Country of California consist of flowers only, but those in a most beautiful
state. Others, collected by Mr Tolmie himself, to the. north of tbe Columbia, have the leaves and roots
quite perfect, and the flowers with capsules almost fully formed. Thus we are enabled to give a more
complete account than has yet appeared of this plant, so well known to the Indians of N. W. America, and
so much employed by them as an article of food. We may premise, that the account of the foliage and
scapes and flower-buds, given in the Botanical Miscellany, is quite correct. But the roots were imperfect,
from having been prepared for food ; in which operation not only the fibrous parts are removed, but the whole
of the bark also, (dark brown externally, bright red within,) leaving only the nearly pure white fleshy inner portion
of the root. The flowers are large, the scapes succulent, jointed above the middle, and involucrated with
5-7 subulate membranous scales. Sepals about 7, orbiculari-ovate, membranous, spreading, obtuse, pale
brown, persistent. Petals 8-10, of a delicate filmy texture and rose colour, 2 or 3 narrow and almost linear,
the rest ovate acute, spreading, marcescent, and ultimately twisting around the stamens and pistil, while the
sepals retain their form and colour. Stamens numerous, inserted at the base of the calyx. Filaments slender,
shorter than the petals. Anthers linear-oblong, yellow, slightly bifid at each extremity, inserted by the back
just above the fork. Ovary globose-ovate, finely striated, and contracted at the base into a very short thick
stipes. Style persistent, but apparently jointed with a dark line a little above the base, and then dividing
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