CAKYOPHYLLACF.jE. 63 arenaria. 



Lat. Stella, a. slvLT ; the flowers are stellate or star-like. Small, grass-like 

 Jjcrbs, in moist or shady places. Flowers in forked cymes. 



1. S. me'dia. 



Leaves ova.ie ; stems procumbent, with an alternate, lateral, hairy line ; sta- 

 mens 3, 5 or 10. A common weed in almost every situation, flovverinor 

 from the beo-inning of spring to the end of autiunn. Stems prostrate, branched, 

 brittle, round, jointed, leaiy, and remrArk;<l)ly distinguished by the hairy ridge 

 extending from joint to joint, in an a!teni:itc manner. Flowers small, white. 

 The seeds are eaten by poultry and tiie birds. Ann. Chick-weed Slich-icurt. 



2. S. lokgifo'lia. 



Leaves linear, entire; ryme terminal, sf)reading, with lanceolate, scarious 

 bracts; calyx 3-nerved, about equal to the petals." The stems are of consid- 

 erable length, very slender and brittle, supported on other plants and bushes.- 

 Leaves alternate at base. The flowers are in a divaricate, naked cyme, very 

 elegant, white, appearing in 10 segments like the other species. Three acute, 

 green ribs singularly distinguish the sepals. Jn. Jl. Grass-leaved Stich-wurt. 



3. S. BOREA'lIS. Bio. 



Sfem weak, smooth; leaves veinless, broad-lanceolate, acute; ■peduncles 

 a.villary, elongated, 1-flowered ; peials 3-parted, about equal to the nerveless 

 sepals. A spreading plant, with flowers in difiuse cymes, both terminal and 

 a.tillarj'. Peduncles lilifcnn, petals sometimes wanting. Grows in mountain 

 bogs. Jn. Jl. JS'orllicrn SteUaria. 



4. S. Lo'kgipES. Goldie. S. palustris. 



Smooth and shining ; leaves linear-lanceolate, broadest at base, acute ; stem 

 more or less decumbent, with ascending branches; peduncles and pedicels 

 filiform, cymose, with ovate, membranous bracts at base ; se; «/a- with mem- 

 branous margins, obscurely 3-nerved^ scarcely shorter than the petals. In 

 meadows and moist gravelly soils. Petals white, 2-parted. Flowers in loose 

 cymes, the terminal peduncle, or the middle one, the longest. Jn. — Aug. 

 Per. Long-stalked Stich-icort. 



2. A R E N A' R I A . 

 Sepals 5, sproadinf^; petiils 5, entire ; stamens 10 ; stjlcsS; 

 capsule 3-valvcd, 1-cellcd, many-seeded. 



Lat. «rr;/?^, sand ; in which most of the species grow. Flowers terminal. 

 Sla. often less than 10. 



1. A. GrEENLA'NDICA. Spre^ig. A. glabra. B, 



Glabrous; stems numerous, low, filiform, sub-erect; /races linear-subulate^ 

 fiat, spreading; pedicels i-Howered, elongated, divaricate; sepals nerveless, 

 ovate, obtuse, membrane-margined, mucli shorter than the petals. An intc 

 resting little plant, enlivening the bleak and barren summits of Alt. VVashino-^ 

 ton and others of that group, where I saw it in blossom in the month of Auo-.. 

 It grows in tufted masses, consisting of exceedingly numerous stems, about 3 

 inches high, and sprinkled over with birge white flowers, with yellow stamens.- 

 Root perennial. The plant is also native of Greenland. Greenland Sand-xcort. 



2. A. Stria'ta. 



Glabrous; sfrm difl'u.sely spreading, branched from the base ; haves subu- 

 late-linear, erect; pclu'.s much longer than culy.x; seiuls oval-lauceolate, 



