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rowly linear, cuspidate, 4-6 lines loug, \—^ line broad : stipules white, 

 attenuate, 2-3 lines long : inflorescence racemiform ; pedicels truly 

 filiform, exceeding the bracts and about twice as long as the oblong- 

 lanceolate scarious-margined acutish glandular-pubescent sepals : cor- 

 olla 1^ lines in diameter, scarcely equalling the calyx: capsule of the 

 same length ; seeds " semiobovate " and minutely crested but not 

 winged. — Rel. Haenk. ii. 9 ; Gray, Gen. ii. 28, t. 108, & Man. ed. 1, 

 04 excl. var. S. rubra, var. campestris, Gray, Man. ed. 5, 95. S. 

 campestris, Aschers. ex Rohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras, xiv. 2 2G7. Arenaria 

 rubra, L. Spec. 423 excl. var.; Bigel. Fl. Bost. 108 ; Hook. Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. i. 98. Buda rubra, Dumort. Fl. Belg. 110. Spergula rubra, 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 175 excl. vars. Tissa rubra, Britt. Bull. Torr. 

 Club, xvi. 127. — An attractive species, growing about paths in dry 

 sandy soil. Maine to Virginia, and Washington State, Suksdorf ; to 

 San Francisco, Mrs. Brandeyee. (Europe.) 



S. Cleveland.].. Perennial, viscid-glandular : leaves ascending, 

 often secund, conspicuously fascicled in the axils, almost terete and 

 filiform, very acute and attenuate, 5-10 lines in length: flowers much 

 as in the last, but often somewhat larger : seeds winged. — Tissa vil- 

 /osa, Britton, 1. c. xvi. 129. T. Clevelandi, Greene, Fl. Francis. 127. 

 T. rubra, K. Brandegee, Zoe, iv. 84. — Sandy soil, California, San 

 Diego, Cleveland, Mrs. Brandegee / San Jose, Mrs. Bush ; and at 

 the Presidio, San Francisco, according to Prof. Greene. A doubtful 

 species with close affinities, as Mrs. Brandegee suggests, to S. rubra, 

 but not readily identifiable with any form of that species, as it seems 

 to differ in its longer, more terete and acute leaves, and winged seeds. 

 From the South American S. villosa it differs in its lower growth, 

 distinctly smaller flowers, shorter pedicels, and somewhat firmer and 

 less flaccid leaves. 



* * Slender spreading or erect annuals of the West and Southwest, scarcely 

 fleshy, and with short deltoid stipules. 



•<- Corolla pink (or white ?) more than half as long as the sepals. 

 S. diandra, Boiss. Viscid-pubescent to nearly glabrous : leaves 

 not fascicled, linear-filiform : pedicels slender, about 2 lines long, 

 spreading or deflexed : sepals in fruit 1^ lines long, but little exceeded 

 by the capsules : stamens usually but 2-3. — Fl. Orient, i. 733. Are- 

 naria. diandra, Guss. Prodr. Sic. i. 515. Tissa diandra, Britton, Bull. 

 Torr. Club, xvi. 128. — Texas, Druinmond, Lindheimer, Goshen, 

 Calif., Mrs. Brandegee, Oregon, Henderson, and on sandy banks of 

 the Columbia River in Klickitat Co., Washington, Snksdorf. In its 

 wiry procumbent stems this species also suggests S. rubra, from which, 

 however, it differs in its short deltoid stipules. 



