298 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



indicated. The stem is terete even in a dried state, while the stems 

 of A. Franklinii in drying become furrowed and angulate, as though 

 slightly fleshy. 



§ 5. Alsine, Wahlenberg (as genus, not Linn.). Capsule ovoid, 3- 

 valved ; valves entire ; seeds not strophiolate : matted perennials or 

 delicate annuals, usually with narrow linear subulate or acerose leaves. 



— Fl. Lapp. 127; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 341 ; Regel, Radde's 

 Reisen in Ost-Sib. i. 337 ; Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 

 iii. 1 b, 82. 



# Palustrine perennial with weak elongated stems, narrow linear or lance- 



linear leaves and axillary long-peduncled flowers. 



A. paludicola. Glabrous, flaccid : stems several, subsimple, 

 procumbent, rooting at the lower joints, sulcate, shining, leafy 

 throughout: leaves uniform, flat, 1-nerved, acute, spreading, f-1^ 

 inches long, 1-3 lines in breadth, often punctate, somewhat connate, 

 slightly scabrous upon the margins: peduncles solitary in the axils, 

 1-2 inches long, spreading or somewhat deflexed : sepals nerveless, 

 not at all indurated, acutish about half the length of the obovate petals. 



— A. palustris, Wats, (not Gay). Bot. Calif, i. 70, & Bibl. Index, 

 97 ; Greene, Fl. Francis. 124; Mrs. Brandegee, Zoe, ii. 341. Alsine 

 palustris, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. Gl. — Abundant in swamps 

 about Fort Point near San Francisco, Bolander, Kellogg $• Harford ; 

 also in swamps near San Bernardino, Parish Bros. ; May to August. 



* * Terrestrial annuals of the Atlantic Slope and Alleghany Mountains, rarely 



extending to the interior in the Southern States, essentially glabrous: 

 sepals obtuse, soft in texture, scarcely or not at all nerved. 

 A. G-rcenlandica, Spreng. Somewhat fleshy : root at first 

 simple, later of many delicate fibres : stems few to many, decumbent 

 or erect, subsimple, 2-8 inches long, bearing 1-5 flowers : leaves 

 linear, obtuse, l£-7 lines long, at first in a dense, more or less rosulate 

 cluster at the base ; the cauline 2-4 pairs : sepals broadly ovate, 1^—2 

 lines in length: petals obovate, about twice as long, entire or notched; 

 capsule subglobose to oblong, more or less contracted to a point. — 

 Syst. ii. 402 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 180 ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 95, t. 15. 

 A. glabra, Torr. Fl. U. S. 455, not Michx. ; Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 180. 

 Alsine GrosJikmdica, Gray, Man. ed. 2, 58. Stellaria Grcenlandica, 

 Retz. Fl. Scand. ed. 2, 107; Vahl, Fl. Dan. vii. t. 1210. ? S. Labra- 

 dorica, Schrank, Pfl. Lab. 24 ; Meyer, PI. Lab. 93. — Rocky soil, 

 chiefly but not always at higher altitudes, Greenland to the coast of 

 Maine, Bath, Gambel ; Bar Harbor, Rand ; also at Middletown, Conn., 

 Osbom, Wright ; locally abundant in the White, Green, Adirondack, 



