Montia fontana subsp. fontana

Montia hallii (A. Cray) Greene, Fl. Fran. ISO. 1891
Claxlonia Chamissonis tenerrima A. Grav. Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 378. 1872.
Cla'ylonia Hallii A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 283. 1887.
Montia fonlana tenerrima FernaUl & Wieg. Rbodora 12: 138. 1910.
Slender annual, in age yellowish-gTeen; stem branched, 5-15 cm. long, often rooting .it the nodes; lower leaves peiioled, spatulate, 5-10 mm. long, the petioles dilated at the base, the middle ones similar but sessile, the uppermost oblong; racemes axillary and terminal, 3-10-flowered; pedicels 4-10 mm. long; sepals reniform, 1 mm. long; capsule obovoid, slightly exceeding the sepals; seeds black, under a lens strongly and finely muricate, 1 mm. long.
Type locality: Oregon.
Distribution: British Columbia to northern California and northwestern Nevada.

Montia dipetala Suksd. Werdenda 1: 9. 1923
Slender annual; stem erect, branched from the base, 1-3 cm. high; leaves oblauceolate or lanceolate, subsessile, acute; racemes 2-4-flowered, axillary and terminal; pedicels 5-8 mm. long; sepals about 1 mm. long; corolla lobes 2, oblong or spatulate, the 3 lobes opposite the stamens wanting; seeds about 0.6 mm. long, dull, strongly muricate.
Type locality: Wet mossy places near Hingen, Washington. Distribution: Columbia Valley. Washington and Oregon.

Montia funstonii Rydberg, sp. nov
Annual; stems slender, decumbent or floating, 2-5 cm. long; leaves short-petioled, spatulate, 3-5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide; racemes 1-3-flovvered, axillary and terminal; pedicels 2-5 mm. long; sepals rounded-reniform, 1 mm. long; capsule about 1 mm. long, obovoid; seeds barely 1 mm. long, black, dull, densely muricate, but the tubercles low and flat. '
Herba annua; caules tenues, decumbentes vel natantes, eradicantes; folia spathulata, 3-5 mm. longa; sepala rotundato-reniformia; capsula obovoidea; semina nigra nnllo modo nitentia tuberculata tuberculis plano-depressis.
Type collected in the Whitnev Meadows, Tulare Countv, California. August 19, 1891, Coville &■ Funston 1619 (U. S. Nat. Herb. 10821).