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Caryophyllaceae 



Paronychia 



Map 907 



Arenaria lateriflora L. 



Arenaria stricta 



50 



Map 909 



Arenaria patula Michx. 



2. Arenaria lateriflora L. (Woodward. On variation in Arenaria lateri- 

 flora. Rhodora 15: 209-210. 1913. Rhodora 16: 179-180. 1914 and St. 

 John. Arenaria lateriflora and its varieties in North America. Rhodora 

 19: 259-262. 1917.) (Moehringia lateriflora (L.) Fenzl.) Bluntleaf 

 Sandwort. Map 907. Local in moist woods throughout northern Indiana. 

 It is most often found near the base of white and black oak slopes. When 

 introduced into flower gardens, it stubbornly persists. 



Arctic America southw. to N. J., Pa., Ohio, 111. to Mo. ; also in the Rocky 

 Mts. southw. to N. Mex. ; found also in Eurasia. 



3. Arenaria stricta Michx. Rock Sandwort. Map 908. Local in north- 

 ern Indiana where it usually grows in very sandy soil on black and white 

 oak ridges. It is abundant on Hanging Rock along the Wabash River in 

 Wabash County. 



N. H., Ont, to Minn., southw. to Va. and Mo. 



4. Arenaria patula Michx. PITCHER SANDWORT. Map 909. On wooded 

 gravelly slopes along streams and in shallow soil on sandstone bluffs. Local 

 but very common in some of its stations. 



Ind. to Minn., southw. to Ala. and Tex. 



2449. SPERGULA L. 



See excluded species no. 219, p. 1045. 



2450. SPERGULARIA J. & C. Presl 



See excluded species no. 220, p. 1045. 



2475. PARONYCHIA [Tourn.] Adans. Forked Chickweed 



[Fernald. Notes on Paronychia, Section Anychia. Rhodora 38: 416-421. 

 1936.] 



