Siberian Springbeauty

Calandrinia heterophylla Rydberg, sp. nov
Calandrinia caulescens A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 277. 1S87. Not C. caidescens H.B.K. 1823. Annual, branched at the base; stems decumbent, 1-2 dm. high; leaves 4-6 cm. long, the lower leaf-blades linear or filiform, the upper narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 1—3 mm. wide; pedicels 8-15 mm. long; sepals 5-6 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate; petals 5, pink, roundedobovate, about equaling the sepals; stamens 5-S; capsule about 5 mm. long, lance-ovoid; seeds black, shining, orbicular, smooth, 1 mm. long.
Caules annui decumbentes; folia inferiora linearia vel filiformia. superiora anguste linearioblanceolata; sepala lanceolata acuminata; petala pallide rosea, sepala subaequantia; capsula lanceo-ovoidea ; semina nigra nitentia levia.
Type collected at Old Mission Dam, San Diego Count v, California. April 10. 1904. //. P. Chandler 5152 herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Southern California and Lower California.

Limnia heterophylla (Nutt.) Rydberg
Claxlonia unalaschkensis heterophHa Xutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 199. as synonym. 1838.
Cla'ytonia alsinoides heterophylla T. & G. Fl. X. Am. 1: 199. 1838.
Claylonia sibirica heterophylla A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 281. 1887.
Montia sibirica heterophylla B. L. Robinson, in A. Grav. Svn FL X. Am. I 1 : 273. 1897.
Montia heterophylla Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 349. 1923.
Perennial, with tuberiferous rootstock or stolons; stems 1 or 2, 1.5-4 dm. high, glabrous; basal leaves long-petioled, the petioles 5-10 cm. long, the blades oval to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2-6 cm. long, 5-20 mm. wide; stem-leaves oblanceolate, 4-7 cm. long, tapering below into a short petiole: racemes usually solitary', 1-2 dm. long; bractlets linear or oblong; sepals rounded-ovate, 4 mm. long; petals white, obcordate, deeply notched, 7 mm. long; seeds black, minutely punctate.
Type locality: Oregon ["Columbia Woods"]. Distribution : Oregon and California.