263] FLORA OF BOULDER, COLORADO I I 5 



Family 43. ALSINACEAE Wahl. Chickweed Family. 



151. ALSINE L. Chickweed. Starwort. 



392. A. media L. [Stellaria media (L.) Cyr.]. Common chick- 

 weed. 



Streets in the city of Boulder, 5300-5600 ft. (Daniels, 803). 

 Europe and Asia, thence a cosmopolitan weed. 



393. A. Baicalensis Coville [Stellaria umbellata Turcz.]. Lake 

 Baical starwort. 



Arapahoe Peak above timberline in wet tundras, 11000- 

 13500 ft. (Daniels, 929). Also along mountain streams from 

 Eldora to Baltimore (Rydberg). 



Montana to Oregon; Colorado to California: Siberia. 



394. A. longifolia (Muhl.) Britton [Stellaria longifolia 

 Muhl.]. Long-leaved stitchwort. 



In high alpine valley near snow above Bloomerville, 9000- 

 11000 ft. (Daniels, 326). 



Newfoundland to Alaska; Maryland to Colorado: Eu- 

 rope: Asia. 



395. A. longipes (Goldie) Coville [Stellaria longipcs Goldie]. 

 Long-pedicelled stitchwort. 



Wet meadows at Caribou, 8000-10000 ft. (Rydberg). 

 Labrador to Alaska and Colorado: Siberia. 



395a. A. longipes stricta (Richardson) Rydb. [Stellaria 

 stricta Richardson]. Strict long-pedicelled stitchwort. 

 Eldora to Baltimore, 8000-1 1000 ft. (Rydberg). 

 Range of the type, but extending to California. 



396. A. Jamesiana (Torr. ) Heller [ Stellaria Jamesiam Torr.] . 



James's starwort. 

 Along a stream in the mesa fronting Flagstaff Hill, 5700- 

 6000 ft. (Daniels, 26). The plants have fimbriate petals! 

 Wyoming to New Mexico and California. 



152 CERASTIUM L. Mouse-ear chickweed. 



397. C. occidentale Greene. Western mouse-ear chickweed. 

 Common on the mesas, foothills, and mountainsides in 



