Stellaria. CARYOPIIYLLACE.E. 185 



gated ; sepah obtuse. — S. longipes, GohIip,in Edinh. phil. journ. 6. p. 185 ; 

 DC. prodr. 1. p. 400; Honk. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 95. 



fi. slender, rather rit^id ; leaves more erect, and pungent, sometimes 

 al no3t subulaie; sepah acute.— S. sU'wMi, liichcnds. a}.p. Frar.kl. joinn. 

 ed. 2. p. 15; Hook. I. c.— \. stems sparsely pubescent. Hook. 2. stems gla- 

 brous. Hook. I— S. palustris, Richards. /. c. erf. 1. 3. leaves somewhat 

 glaucous. Hook. 



y. 3-4 inches high ; stems 1-2-flowercd ; sepals acute ; otherwise like 



o. &/3. 



i. glaucous ; branches erect from creeping stems, 3-6 inches high, 1-3- 

 floAvered ; leaves erect, lanceolate, rigid, carinate ; sepals rather obtuse. — 

 S. la:la, Richards. ! app. Frankl. journ. ed. 2. p. 16 ; Hook. ! app. Parry's 

 V01J., & in ff. Bor.-.\m. 1. p. C6. 



£. glabrous or somewhat pubescent; branches 1-2 inches high, 1-3-now- 

 eredl leaves ovate-lanceolate (the lowest sometimes ovate, obtuse), seme- 

 times sparselv ciliate at the ba-^e ; sepals acutish.— S. Edwardsii, R. Br.! in 

 app. Parry's \sl roy. p. 271 ; Richaids. I c; Torr. in ami. hjc. New- 

 york,2.p.'\'0: Hook..' fi. Bor.-Am. 1. jo. 96. /. 31 ; CAow. ^ Schlechi.in 

 Linnna, I. p. 48. S. nitida, //oo/i. in app. Scoresb. Greenl. ;p. 411. S. 

 ovalifolia. Hook. fl. I. c? 



a. & /?. Wood? and shores, Canaela ! to Subarctic America! west to Ore- 

 gon (A»«a// .') Shore of L. Ontario and Michiiran! r. Rocky Mountains, 

 lat. 40 \ Dr. James ! <5. Arctic ! and !-ubarctic America, and Rocky Moun- 

 tains, t. Shores of the Arctic Sea! Brhring's Straits, and Reeky Moun- 

 tains, lat. 40^ {Dr. James!)— We have little hesitation in carrying cut the 

 intimition? of Sir VVm. Hook-r, and con-.idering th-se plants as modifica- 

 tions of on? species. Vars. a. & 0. may be distinguished from S. longifolia 

 by the shorter and less spreading leaves, always broadest at the base, and by 

 the somewhat larger flowers and obscurely nerved sepals. 



~fl2. S. nilens (.\utt.! mss.): " subcaespitose, smooth and shining ; stems 

 erect, sparsely hairy below, filiform, naked above; leaves lanceolate-subulate, 

 short, acute; petah 2-lob?d and (as well as the capsule) much shorter than 

 the lanceolate very acute 3-nerved sepals. 



'• Plains of the Oregon, in moist or shady places.— Plant 3-5 inches 

 high, spreading. Leaves rigid, i of an inch Icng. Sepals shining, with 

 scarious margins. Cyme few-flowered. Flowers expanding only in the 

 sunshine. Habit of an Arenaria." Ntitt. 



-/"Is. S. longifolia (Muhl.) : stem branching, weak, glabrous ; leaves linear, 

 mostly atti^nuate at the base, acutish ; cyme divaricate, n&ked, with lanceo- 

 late scarious bracts; petah cleft nearly to the base, at first shorter, at 

 length longer than the acute 3-nerved sepals. — Torr.! fi. 1. p. 452 (excl. 

 syn° of S. longipes); DC. prodr. 1. ;;. 4C0 ; Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 94 ; 

 Bon^r. ve^. Sitcha, l. c. p. 126. S. graminea. Biget. fl. Bost. ed. 1. p. 110; 

 Cham. ^ Schle^fit. in Linncea, 1. p. 49, fide Bongard ^ Hook. Spergulas- 

 truTi gramineuin. Mich.r.! fl. 1. p. 2T6. Micropetalon graminenm, Pers. 



Shady damp places, Virginia ! to Subarctic America ! Oregon ! to Sitcha ! 

 June. — 'li Stem flaccid. 4-18 inches high ; the angles usually retrorsely sca- 

 bx-ous. Leaves elongated, spreading to a right angle with the stem. Pedi- 

 cel", filiform. Stamens 8-10. Capsule subglobose, about the length of the 

 calyx. 



-f^li. S. borealis (Bigelow) : glabrous, flaccid; leaves brondly lanceolate, 

 acute, veinless; petals (sometimes none) 2-parted, nearly the length of the 

 lanc?olat? acute nerveless sepals ; capsules ovate-oblong, nearly twice the 

 length of the calyx; styles 4.— S. borealis, Bigel.! f. Bost. ed. 2. p. 182; 

 Hook.Ijl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 94. S. lanceolata, Torr. ! f. 1. p. 45, not of 



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