ALSINACEAE. 



12. Arenaria texana ( Robinson) Britton. 

 Texas Sandwort. Fig. 1788. 



Arenaria striata texana Robinson : Britton, Mem. Torr. 



Club 5 : 152. 1894. 

 Arenaria texana Britton in Britt. & Brown, 111. FI. 2 : 



34- 1897. 



Similar to the preceding species but lower, stiffer, 

 pale green, stems erect, 4'-7' tall, simple up to the 

 inflorescence, conspicuously thickened at the nodes, 

 the internodes mostly very short. Leaves subulate, 

 stiff, 3"-6" long, strongly connate, with numerous 

 minute or similar ones fascicled in their axils; 

 cymes small, rather few-flowered, compact or rather 

 loose; pedicels rarely more than 8" long; flowers 

 4"-5" broad; calyx narrowly conic in fruit; sepals 

 narrowly lanceolate, strongly 3-ribbed, long-acumi- 

 nate, 2" long, longer than the capsule. 



In dry, rocky soil, Missouri and Kansas to Texas. 

 June-July. 



Vol.. II. 



II. Arenaria litorea Fernald. 

 iScach .Sandwort. Fig. 1787. 



Arenaria litorea Fernald, Rhodora 8 : 

 33- i9o(J. 



Perennial, similar to the preceding 

 species, tufted, glabrous, slender, 8' 

 high or less, leafy below. Leaves 

 linear-subulate, somewhat 3-angIed, 

 fascicled at the nodes, about 5" long; 

 cymes i-several-flowered; pedicels 

 slender, 5"-i2" long, ascending; 

 sepals iY'-2Y' long, ovate, acumi- 

 nate, scarious-margined; petals ob- 

 long, shorter than the sepals or nearly 

 equalling them; capsule ovoid, some- 

 what longer than the calyx. 



Sandy 

 Ontario 



13. Arenaria patula ^lichx. Pitcher's Sand- 

 wort. Fig. 1789. 



Arenaria f'atiila Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 273. 1803. 



Arenaria Pitcheri Nutt. ; T. & G. FI. N. A. i : 180. 1838. 



.\nnual, branched from the base, slender or even 

 filiform, erect or ascending, 4'-io' high, finely 

 pubescent or glabrous. Leaves soft, herbaceous, 

 linear-filiform, 4"-i2" long, I" wide or less, obtuse 

 or acutish ; cyme terminal, several-flowered, diffuse ; 

 pedicels slender; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 

 3-5-nerved, about half the length of the eniargi- 

 nate petals and equalling the pod; seeds rough. 



_ In open, dry places. Kentucky to Illinois. Minnesota, 

 Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas. April-May. 



