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leaved; flowers few, terminal, erect; petals. much longer 

 than the roundish calyx. J\I i c h. FL 1. p. 273. Ptirsh 

 F/. I. p. 316. Elliott Sk, I. p. 520. A. caroliniana 

 Walt. Car. p. 141. 



Hoot very long, perennial. Siems densely ccspitose, with nume- 

 rous short leafy branches; flowering branches about 6 inches 

 long, quits simple, pubescent. Leaves subulate, rigid ; the 

 inferior ones much crowded, and imbricate somewhat in 4 

 rows. Flowers about 3 on each stem, which is trichotbmously 

 divided at the summit into 3 peduncles. Leaflets of the catya; 

 roundish-ovate, smooth. Paala oblong, nearly three times as 

 long as the calyx. Stamens 10^ Jila?iienis slender, smooth. 

 Ca/i8ule roundish-ovate. 



Hab. In the pine barrens of New- Jersey ; abundant in Mon- 

 mouth county. May — August. 



5. A. glabra Mich.: very smooth; stems numerous, 

 erect, filiform ; leaves subulate- linear, flat, spreading; pedi- 

 cels I -flowered, elongated, divaricate; leaflets of the calyx 

 oval, obtuse, smooth, shorter than the petals. M i c h, FL 

 1. p. 274. PursA i^/. I, p. 318. ElliottSk,\.^,b20, 

 Stellaria unifora IValt^ Car. p. 141 ? 



Root perennial. Stems numerous from one root, 4 — 6 inches 

 high, very slender. Leaves in remote pairs, linear, half an 

 inch or more in length, not rigid. Pedicels fifiform, proceed- 

 ing from the summit of the stem, spreading. Leaflets of the 

 calyx roundish, discoloured on the margin. Petals obovate, 

 as long again as the calyx, slightly emarginate, 



Hab. In crevices of rocks on the summit of the Shawangunk 

 Mountains, New -York. June. On the White Hills of New- 

 Hampshire. Boott. August. 



6. A. stricta M i c h. : smooth ; stems numerous, filiform, 

 simple ; leaves subulate-linear, subfasciculate, spreading; pa- 

 nicle few-flowered, spreading ; leaflets of the calyx ovate- 

 aicute, conspicuously 3-nerved, half as long as the petals. 

 Jlf icA. F/. I. p. 274.> P«rs/i i'/. I. p. 318. Elliott 

 SLI.^. 521. 



Root perennial. Stems numerous from one root, erect, 6 — 12 

 inches high ; joints approximate. Leaves nearly an inch long, 

 rather rigid, very narrow and acute, with several shorter ones 

 in the axils, and thus appearing fasciculate. Panicle spread- 

 ing and filiform, trichotomous. Cali/jc smooth ; leaflets very 

 acute, with 3 prominent nerves. Petals oblong, twice as long 

 as the calyx. Capsule ovate. 



Hab. On mountains near Deerfield, Massachusetts. Coo ley 

 and Hitchcock. On the White Hills of New-Hampshire. 

 Bigelotv, Easton, Pennsylvania. Schvj einit z. May- 

 June. 



