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ALABAMA: Over the State. Roadsides, pastures, in dry ground. Mobile County. 
Flowers February, March; common. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘ Hab. in Europae pratis macilentis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
EUROPE. 
Cerastium vulgatum L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,1: 627. 1762. LARGER MOUSE-EAR CHICK WEED, 
Cerastium triviale Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 1: 433. 1821. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,88. Chap. F150. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:29. 
Naturalized from Europe. Distribution of the last, less frequent. 
ALABAMA: All over the State. In gardens, borders of fields, grass plots. Flowers 
white. March, April; less common than the above, Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Scaniae et Europace australioris pratis, areis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ALSINE IL. Sp. Pl. 1: 272. 1753. 
(STELLARIA L. Sp. Pl. 1: 421. 1753.) 
About 75 species, temperate regions Northern Hemisphere. 
Alsine media L. Sp. Pl. 1: 272. 1753. COMMON CHICKWEED, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 86. Chap. FIL. 50. 
EUROPE. 
Throughout the continent; introduced. 
ALABAMA: Abundant on cultivated ground and in damp waste places. One of the 
most common of our winter annuals. 
Type locality: ‘ Hab. in Europae eultis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb, Mohr. 
Alsine pubera (Michx.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club. 4: 107. 1898. 
Sorr HAIRY STARWORT. 
Stellaria pubera Michx. Fl. Bor, Am. 1:278. 1808. 
EM. Sk. 1:517. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 87. Chap. Fl. 50. 
Carolinian area. 
ALABAMA: Rich woods, in the hills. Tuscaloosa County. May,June; not fre- 
quent. Perennial. 
Type locality: “Hab. in montibus sylvaticis Carolinac septentrionalis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Alsine pubera tennesseensis var. nov. 
Perennial, from a slender, creeping rootstock, stem ascending, 6 to & inches high, 
smoothish; leaves broadly ovate ¢ inch wide, sessile or petiolulate, calyx lobes more 
or lessobtuse or acutish, almost as long as the petals. 
Readily distinguished from the type by the foliage of rich dark green, broader 
leaves, and stouter habit of growth. 
Carolinian area. Kentucky. 
ALABAMA: Rich shaded banks. Tuscumbia County, shaded rocky shelves, bluffs 
of the Tennessee River near Sheffield. Madison County, Montesano ( Baker §: Earle). 
Dr. J. Small finds our plant identical with specimens collected in Kentucky by 
Dr. Short. 
Intermediate forms from the knobs in Southern Indiana connect it with the type. 
(Mohr. ) 
Type locality: The stations mentioned above. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
ARENARIA L. Sp. PI. 1:423. 1753. 
(ALSINE Wahl. Fl. Suppl. 127. 1812. Not L.) 
About 150 species, widely distributed over the globe, mostly in cool temperate, 
alpine, and arctic regions. North America, 30. Southern United States, 5. 
Arenaria stricta Michx. I'l. Bor. Am. 1: 274. 1808. MICHAUX’sS SANDWORT. 
Arenaria michaucrii Hook. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. 23: 287. 1867. 
Ell. 8k.1:521. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 85. Chap. Fl. 49. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:30. 
Canadian zone to Carolinian area. 
Ontario to Lake Superior and Saskatchewan; New England west to Michigan, 
