188 XXUl. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. Arenakia. 



10, sometimes 5 or 4, the alternate ones shorter; styles 5; capsule 

 superior, cylindrical or roundish, 10-toothed; seeds numerous. 

 * Petals scarcely longer than the calyx. 



1. C. vuLGATUM. Mouse-ear Chickweed. 



Hairy, pale green, cGBspitose; Ivs. attenuated at the base, ovate, or obo- 

 vate-obtuse ; fis. in subcapitate clusters ; sep. when young, longer than the pedi- 

 cels. — Fields and waste grounds, Can, and U. S., flowering all summer. 

 Stems 6 — 12' long, ascending, mostly forked. Leaves 5 — 8" by 3 — 5", mostly 

 very obtuse, lower ones tapering to the base. Flowers in dense, terminal clus- 

 ters, the terminal (central) one solitary, always the oldest. Sepals mostly green, 

 a little shorter than the corolla. Petals white, appearing in 10 segments. 



2. C. viscosuM. (and C. semidecandrum. Linn.} Sticky Chickweed. 

 Hairy, viscid, spreading ; Ivs. oblong-lanceolate, rather acute ; fis. in 



loose cymes ; sep. scarious and white on the margin and apex, shorter than the 

 pedicels. — % Fields and waste grounds, U. S. and Can. Plant more deeply 

 green than the last. Stems many, assurgent, dichotomously-cymose. Leaves 

 5 — 9" long, \ — I as wide, radical ones subspatulate. Flowers white, in diflTuse 

 cymes. Petals hardly as long as the sepals, obovate, bifid. Jn. — Aug. 

 fi. semidecandrivvi. T. «fe G. Stamens 5. — Mass. to la. ! 

 ** Petalt much longer than the calyx. 



3. C. ARVENSE. (C. tenuifolium. Ph.) Field Chickweed. 

 Pubescent, somewhat casspitose ; Ivs. linear-lanceolate, acute, often longer 



than the internodes; cyme on a long, terminal peduncle, few flowered; pet. 

 more than twice longer than the calyx ; cap. scarcely exceeding the sepals. — 

 Rocky hills. Stems 4 — 10' high, decumbent at base. Leaves 9 — 15" long, 1 — 

 2" wide. Flowers white, rather large. Capsule usually a little longer than 

 the calyx. May — Aug. 



4. C. OBLONGIPOLIUM. Torr. (C. villosum. Muhl.) 



Villose, viscid above; 5/. erect or declined; Ivs. oblong-lanceolate, most- 

 ly obtuse, and shorter than the internodes ; fis. numerous, in a spreading cyme ; 

 pet. twice as long as the sepals ; cap. about twice as long as the calyx. — %. 

 Rocky places. Stems 6 — 10' high, thick. Leaves 9 — 12" by 3 — 5", tapering 

 from base to an acute or obtuse apex. Flowers larger than either of the fore- 

 going, white, in two or three-forked cymes. Apr. — Jn. 



5. C. NUTANS. Raf. 



Viscid and pubescent ; st. weak, striate-sulcate, erect ; Ivs. lanceolate, 

 narrow, shorter than the internodes ; fis. many, difl^usely cymose, on long, 

 filiform, nodding pedicels ; pet. nearly twice as long as the calyx. — Low 

 grounds, Vt. to 111. ! and La. Pale green and very clammy. Stems 8 — 15' high, 

 branched from the base. Leaves 1 — 2' long, \ as wide. Flowers white. Cap- 

 sules a little curved, nearly thrice longer than the calyx. May. 



3. ARENARIA. 



Lat. arena, sand ; in which most species grow. 



Sepals 5, spreading; petals 5, entire ; stamens 10, rarely fewer; 

 styles 3 ; capsule 3-valved, 1 -celled, many-seeded. — Fis. terminal. 

 Sty. rarely 2 or 4. 



1. A. saARRosA. Michx. 



Csespitose ; st. few-flowered ; lower Ivs. squarrose-imbricate, crowded, 

 upper ones few, all subulate, channeled, smooth ; pet. obovate, three times longer 

 than the obtuse, veinless sepals. — %. In sandy barrens, N. Y. Bobbins, to Ga. 

 Stems 6 — 10' high, pubescent, much divided at base into simple branches. 

 Leaves about j^' long, obtuse, sessile. Flowers white, in small terminal cymes. 

 Sepals green. Capsules obtuse. Apr. — Sept. 



2. A. STRiCTA. Michx. Straight Sandwort. 



Glabrous, diffuse ; st. branched from the base ; Ivs. subulate-linear, erect ; 

 pet. much longer than the calyx; sep. ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3-veined; cymes 



