mens from the Liverpool garden). Stems slender, 12-18 inches high. Raceme
at length elongated.
5. C. asarifolia (Bongard) : csespitose ; leaves veiny, the radical ones on
long petioles, somewhat reniform ; cauline sessile, broadly ovate, obtuse;
pedicels solitary or ternate, bracteate; petals 2-cleft, red. Bong. veg. Sitcha,
l. c. p. 136.
Sitcha.—Radical leaves nearly 4 inches broad: cauline ones about an inch
broad. Petals twice the length of the calyx; lobes obtuse. Bongard.—Nearly
allied, apparently, to the foregoing.
6. C. perfoliata (Donn) csespitose; leaves obscurely retieulately veined ;
radical ones numerous, on slender petioles, broadly rhomboidal; cauline pair
united into a single nearly orbicular perfoliate leaf; raceme fascicled, sessile;
petals entire or slightly emarginate.—Donn, hort. Cantab, ed. 4. p. 50 ; Bot.
mag. t. 1336; Pursh, fl. I. p. 176; Hook. ft. Bor.-Am-. 1. p. 225. C. Cu-
bensis, Bonpl. in ann, mus. 7. p. 82. t. 6, cf pi. eequinoct. t. 26. Limriia perfoliata,
Haw. succ. syn. p. 12.
N. W. America, (Menzies, Nuttall !) to Mexico and Cuba. Vallies of
the Rocky Mountains, Douglas, N u tta ll!—Stems 4-8 inches high, diffuse.
Flowers very small for the size of the plant: petals white.—De Candolle
gives as a locality, the Rocky Mountains o f Virginia !
7. C. parviflora (Douglas): radical leaves numerous, linear-spatulate, 3-
nerved, with anastomosing veins, on long petioles; the cauline pair united
into one oval perfoliate veiny leaf; raceme [mostly peduncled] simple or
somewhat compound, with a single bract. Hook. 1. c. p. 225, t. 73.
O. glauca (Nutt.! mss.): smaller; raceme mostly subsessile.
In woods along the Oregon river, Douglas, N u tta ll!—Commonly 6-12
inches high, pale green. Petals nearly entire, oblong, pale rose-color or white,
twice the length of the calyx. Var. ffi grows on exposed rocks, in close tufts,
is often very glaucous, 1-3 inches high. Nutt.—The cauline leaf in both forms
of Mr. Nuttall’s specimens is often very excentrically perfoliate.
8. C. spathulata (Douglas): csespitose, minute ; radical leaves numerous,
narrowly subspatulate-linear; cauline ones ovate, acute, sessile ; raceme solitary
(4-6-flowered), 1-bracteate; petals entire, scarcely exeeeeing the calyx.
Hook. ft. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 226. t. 74.
N. W. Coast, Menzies. Valleys of the Rocky Mountains, Douglas.—
Leaves very narrow, scarcely an, inch long; the cauline pair very small.
The smallest of the genus [1-2 inches high]. Hook.
9. C. exigua: csespitose ; radical leaves numerous, narrowly linear; cauline
pair lanceolate or linear, somewhat dilated at the base, subconnate,
usually as long as the solitary few and loosely-flowered raceme; petals ob-
cordate-oblong, more than twice the length of the calyx.
California, Douglas !-—Stems 2 inches high. Cauline leaves variable in
shape and length, (sometimes unequal) often longer, but not rarely shorter
than the raceme. Raceme peduncled, 5-9-flowered. Flowers larger than
in C. spathulata. Seeds minutely scrobiculate.
10. C. gypsophiloides (Fisch. & Meyer) : glaucous; radical leaves very
long, filiform; cauline pair mostly connate on one side; raceme simple,
ebracteate ; petals nearly linear, emarginate, thrice the length of the calyx.
Fisch. <$■ Meyer, ind. sem. St. Petersb. (Dec. 1835) p. 33; Don, in Brit,
fl. gard. (ser. 2.) t. 375. '
California, at the Russian settlement Ross, Fisch. & Meyer.—Stems numerous
and csespitose, filiform, 6-10 inches high. Radical leaves 3-6 inches
or more in length, fleshy, erect: the cauline of two combined on one side,
broad, cucullate, almost tubular at the base; the apices free, ovate, acute, unequal,
spreading. Racemes pedunculate, elongated, many-flowered : pedicels
Claytonia. PORTULACACE/E. 201
scattered, nearly an inch long. Flowers small, but rather showy. Petals
pink, cuneate-oblong, deeply notched. Fisch. if Meyer, and Don, l. c.—
The founders of this species compare the flowers with those of Gypsophila
acutifolia or G. perfoliata.
11. C. tenuifolia: stems numerous, filiform ; leaves narrowly linear; the
radical ones insensibly decurrent into long petioles; cauline pair sessile,
slightly connate on one side at the base, much longer than the sessile 1-bracteate
subumbellate raceme ; petals oblong, longer than the calyx.
California, Douglas !—Stems 6 inches high. Leaves about a line wide
(radical ones as long as the stems), acute. Raceme compound. Flowers
smaller than those of C. perfoliata.
§ 3. Annual: stems decumbent, stoloniferous, with numerous opposite (or
verticillate?) leaves, proliferous: (and hence') racemes apparently ax*
illary.—Alsinastrdm.
12. C. aquatica (Nutt.! mss.): “ csespitose, decumbent, stoloniferous;
leaves opposite, spatulate or Oblong-obovate, attenuate below, obtusish; racemes
axillary, peduncled, simple, few-flowered; petals obovate, entire, more
than twice the length of the calyx.
“ In small springs, &c. Rocky Mountains, and on the plains of the Oregon
near its confluence with the Wahlamet.fg|Stems spreading and rooting at the
joints. Leaves 1-2 inches long, attenuated into a short petiole, slightly veined.
Racemes 5-8-flowered, with a single bract at the origin of the lowest
pedicel. Flowers rather large, white.” Nutt.—C. stolonifera, C. A. Meyer,
from Unalaschka (the description of which we are now unable to find or to
refer to) is perhaps this species. It is evidently neatly allied to C. flagella-
ris, Bongard.
13. C. flagellaris (Bongard) : stems csespitose, flagelliform, here and
there producing fascicles of leaves and rootlets ; leaves oval, attenuate into
a short petiole, Veiny ; petals more than thrice the length of the calyx, bifid,
the lobes obtuse. Bong. veg. Sitcha, l. c. p. 136.
Sitcha.RStems decumbent. Leaves csespitose, broadly oval (the limb
about i an inch in length and width), the younger ones oblong. Flowers
racemose, white, Bongard.
§4. Annual: roots fibrous: stems branched: leaves several, alternate:
racemes terminal and often axillary or opposite the leaves.—N aio-
CRENE. .
14. C. parvifolia (Mogino) ! stems branching from the base, filiform, ascending
;• leaves succulent; the radical ones rosulate, oboVate-spatulate,
acute; the cauline linear-spatulate; racemes terminal, few-flowered; pedicels
filiform, bracteate ; petals oblong, entire (or acutely bifid at the point ?),
thrice the length of the calyx.—“ Moc. icon. pi. Nootk. ined.” ; DC. prodr.
3. p. 361. C: filicaulis, Hook. fl. Bor.-Am,. 1. p. 224, t. 72.
On shady moist rocks along streams, Nootka, Menzies, Mocino. Oregon,
near the ocean, Douglas, Dr. Scouler, ex Hook. / and at the confluence of
the Wahlamet, Nuttall! Aug.—Stems 5-6 inches long. Leaves pale green
(as succulent as in many species of SedUm, Nutt.), nearly veinless; the radical
ones attenuate into a very short petiole; the cauline very small; the
Uppermost minute and bract-like. Racemes 3-7-floweredr pedicels much
longer than the bracts. Flowers rather large, rose-color.—Mogino’s plant is
said to have the petals acutely bifid at the apex ; but as described by Hooker,