ROBINSON. — ALSINE.E. 281 



leaves oblong, 3-5 (-8) lines in length ; the uppermost ovate : sepals 

 lance-ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2-3 lines long: petals 1^-2 times the 

 length of the calyx, obcordate, bifid nearly half way to the base : 

 capsule oblong-conic, twice the length of the calyx ; the teeth finally 

 spreading. — Dauph. iii. 645, t. 46 ; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 396. 

 Stellaria cerastoides, L. Spec. 422 • Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 184 ; Hook. f. 

 Arc. PI. 288. — Table-topped Mountain, Gaspe, Lower Canada, Allen; 

 Cape Chudleigh, Hudson Strait, Bell; Labrador, Greenland, Holm. 

 (Europe and Siberia.) A species now generally appended to Ceras- 

 tium, but forming a transition to Stellaria. 



Mcsnchia quaternella, Ehrh. (Sagina erecta, L., Cerastium 

 quaternellum, Fenzl.) An erect glaucous annual with subsimple 

 stems, 2-3 inches high, bearing 1 or 2 erect 4-parted flowers, was 

 found in the thirties near Baltimore by B. D. Greene. It is said to 

 have been recently rediscovered there, but nothing more definite has 

 been learned concerning its American occurrence. (Europe.) 



10. STELLARIA, L. Chick weed, Starwort. (Stella, a 

 star, in reference to the form of the flower.) — Low spreading herbs, 

 sometimes a little succulent, mostly preferring a moist shaded habitat. 

 Leaves flat or very rarely acerose. A genus conveniently but some- 

 what artificially separated from Arenaria by the more or less deeply 

 cleft petals. — Spec. 421, & Gen. ed. 5, no. 504; Seringe in DC 

 Prodr. i. 396; Fenzl in Endl. Gen. 969 ; Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. v. 

 t. 222-226; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 149; Gray, Gen. ii. t. 113; Pax 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. 1 b, 79. Spergulastrum, Michx. 

 Fl. i. 275. Micropetalon, Pers. Syn. i. 509. Larbrea, St. Hil. Mem. 

 Mus. Par. ii. 287. 



§ 1. Myosoton, Monch (as genus). Styles 5, alternate with the 

 sepals : leaves ovate acute. — Method. 225. Malachia, Fries, Fl. 

 Hall. 77. 



S. aquatica, Scop. Perennial, with stem strongly angled and 

 somewhat pubescent : leaves large, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute ; 

 the upper sessile, cordate ; the lower petiolate : pedicels glandular- 

 viscid, deflexed in fruit: petals 1^ — 2 times as long as the campanulate 

 glandular-pubescent calyx : seeds numerous, dark-colored, tuberculately 

 roughened. — Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 319. Malachia aquatica, Fries, Fl. 

 Hall. 77. Larbrea aquatica, Seringe in DC Prodr. i. 395 (excl. syuon.). 

 — Becoming frequent upon waste land and public grounds in the 

 Eastern States, and more or less established along roadsides in British 

 America, Stratford, Ont., Burgess; Nanaimo, B. C, Macoun. (Ad- 

 ventive from Europe.) 



