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6. Stellaria longipes Goldie. Long-stalked Starwort. Fig. 1663. 



Stellaria longipes Goldie, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 6: 327. 1822. 

 Alsine longipes Coville, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: 70. 1893. 



Stems erect or ascending, tufted, simple or sparingly branched, 1-3 dm. high, glabrous or 

 sparingly pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, erect or ascending, 

 rigid, the midrib prominent, green or glaucous ; flowers solitary or few, terminal on long slender 

 erect pedicels ; bracts scarious or (especially when the flowers are solitary) f oliaceous, lanceolate ; 

 sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3.5-5 mm. long, scarious-margined ; petals longer 

 than the sepals, 2-cleft; capsule ovoid, longer than the calyx; seeds smooth. 



Moist soils, Transition Zones; Alaska to Nova Scotia and south to southern California, New Mexico, and 

 Minnesota. Type locality: "Woods near Lake Ontario." May-Aug. 



7. Stellaria borealis Bigelow. Northern Starwort. Fig. 1664. 



Stellaria borealis Bigelow, Fl. Bost. ed. 2. 182. 1824. 



Stellaria calycantha Bong. Mem. Acad. St.-Petersb. VI. 2: 127. 1832. 



Alsine borealis Britt. Mem. Torrey Club 5: 149. 1894. 



Stems slender, ascending, 1-3 dm. high, simple or branching, glabrous or essentially so. 

 Leaves sessile, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, thin and soft, ciliolate at the base, 7-25 mm. long; 

 flowers solitary on axillary pedicels, or in older plants forming terminal leafy-bracted cymes; 

 pedicels slender, ascending, 2-3 cm. long; sepals acute, scarious-margined, 2-3.5 mm. long; petals 

 minute or absent; capsules broadly ovoid, obtuse, 3^4 mm. long; seeds light brown, faintly 

 reticulate. 



Moist soils, Boreal Zones; circumpolar, extending south on the Pacific coast to southern California, and in 

 eastern North America to Massachusetts and New York. Type locality: White Mountains, New Hampshire. 

 June-Aug. 



Stellaria borealis var. Simcoei (Howell) Fernald, Rhodora 16: ISO. 1914. Closely resembling the typical 

 species, but the stems more or less densely pilose. Wet places, Boreal Zones; Washington to northern California 

 and Montana. 



Stellaria borealis var. Bongardiana Fernald, op. cit. 151. Leaves linear-lanceolate, rather firm, 2-4 cm. 

 long; flowers axillary on spreading or recurved pedicels, or in diffuse leafy-bracted terminal cymes; sepals lance- 

 olate, very acute, 4-5.5 mm. long; capsule oblong-ovoid, 5-8 mm. long; seeds brown, reticulate. Wet places, 

 Humid Transition and Canadian Zones; Alaska to southern California and Quebec. This is the most common 

 form of the species in the Pacific States. 



Stellaria borealis var. sitchana (Steudel) Fernald, op. cit. 151. Closely resembling the variety Bongard- 

 iana, but the diffuse cymes with small scarious-margined bracts. Wet shady places, Humid Transition and Cana- 

 dian Zones; Alaska to western Oregon and Idaho. 



8. Stellaria crispa Cham. & Schl. Chamisso's Starwort. Fig. 1665. 



Stellaria crispa Cham. & Schl. Linnaea 1: 51. 1826. 

 Alsine crispa Holz. Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 3: 216. 1895. 



Perennial by slender creeping rootstocks, glabrous throughout, the stems very slender and 

 weak, decumbent or prostrate, simple or nearly so, 2-4 dm. long. Leaves ovate, short-acuminate, 

 sessile or very short-petioled, thin, the margins often crisped ; pedicels axillary, 6-20 mm. long ; 

 sepals lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm. long, scarious-margined, 3-nerved; petals usually wanting, when 

 present shorter than the sepals and deeply cleft; capsules acutish, exceeding the calyx; seeds 

 reticulate. 



Shady banks and edges of thickets, Humid Transition and Canadian Zones; Alaska to the Sierra Nevada, 

 California. Type locality: "Unalaschka." May-July. 



Stellaria viridula (Piper) St. John in St. John & Warren, Prelim. List PI. Kaniksu Nat. For. 1: 6. 1925. 

 (Alsine viridula Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 16: 207. 1913.) Closely related to S. crispa but more compact, 

 forming dense mats 1-2 dm. across; capsules ovoid, not exceeding the calyx; seeds dark brown, 0.5 mm. long. 

 Along rivulets in woods, about 4,500 feet altitude, Blue Mountains, Columbia County, Washington, is the only 

 known station in the Pacific States. Type locality: Weissner's Peak, Idaho. 



9. Stellaria washingtoniana Robinson. Washington Starwort. Fig. 1666. 



Stellaria washingtoniana Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 25: 166. 1898. 

 Alsine washingtoniana Heller, Cat. N. Amer. PI. ed. 2. 4. 1900. 



Annual, pubescent throughout with spreading hairs, the stems slender, simple or branched, 

 decumbent or prostrate, 5-15 cm. long. Leaves ovate, acute, 5-10 mm. long, thin and delicate, 

 abruptly narrowed at base to a short petiole; pedicels solitary in the axils, very slender, 10-15 

 mm. long, 1 -flowered; sepals 4, narrowly ovate, obtuse, 2-3 mm. long, scarious-margined; petals 

 none ; capsule ovoid, obtuse, scarcely exceeding the calyx ; seeds reddish brown, faintly reticulate. 



Moist mossy spots, Boreal Zones; Cascade (Mount Rainier) and Olympic Mountains, Washington. Type 

 locality: in alder woods of the upper valley of the Nesqually upon slopes of Mount Rainier. July-Aug. 



10. Stellaria obtusa Engelm. Rocky Mountains Starwort. Fig. 1667. 



Stellaria obtusa Engelm. Bot. Gaz. 7: 5. 1882. 



Alsine obtusa Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 3: 569. 1896. 



Perennial, glabrous, the stems prostrate, numerous, 5-15 cm. long. Leaves ovate, acute, 

 8-10 mm. long, thin; pedicels solitary in the axils, about equaling the leaves, 1-flowered; sepals 

 ovate, obtuse, the margins not scarious ; capsule ovoid, obtuse, exceeding the calyx. 



Moist places, Boreal Zones; British Columbia south to the Blue Mountains and Olympic Peninsula, Wash- 

 ington, east to Alberta, Colorado, and Utah. Type locality: western Colorado on the tributaries of the Uunnison 

 River, altitude 9,000 to 10,000 feet. July-Aug. 



