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long slender erect pedicels ; sepals ovate, acute, 3-5-ncrvcd, shorter tlian the 
petals; capsule becoming twice longer than the calyx, splittin^j into 3 
2-toothed valves; seeds oblong or orbicular, compressed, smooth.— Slcms 
high; the numerous sterile shoots matted; leaves G-9" long, rccciil ones a 
bright emerald-green, the old persistent and purpHsh ; petals sonicw luit 
emarginate or erose-dentate at apex. Fremont's Pass, East Humboldt 
Mountains, Nevada; 6,500 feet altitude ; in fruit, August. (170.) 
Arenaria veena, L. Csespitose, pubescent or glabrous; Icnvcs linear- 
subulate, 3-nerved, erect; cyme erect, few- or many -flowered ; sepals dvale, 
acute, 3-nerved, mostly exceeding the petals. — Greenland, Arctic Aim riea, 
Oregon, and the Kocky Mountains of Colorado, llinfa Mounfaliis, Utah; 
11,000 feet altitude; August. (171.) 
Var. HIRTA, Fenzl. Leaves minutely hirsute, obtuse. Gnieiilajid and 
Behring Strait. Found with the last. (172.) 
Arenaria arctica, Stcv. Ca\spitosc; leaves linear-sii])!i]afe, old use, 
fleshy, minutely ciliate; peduncles glandular-pubescent, 1- (rarely 2-,')-) flow- 
ered ; petals about twice longer than the very obtuse 3-nerved sepals. \'ar. 
OBTUSA, T. & G. Leaves obscurely 3-nerved, carinate, sernilate-ciliale, 11h^ 
obtuse petals but half longer than the oblong sepals. — Stems l-.'T hiirh, ol'leii 
scarcely exceeding the leaves; capsule shorter or ]on!,'-er fliaii Ihe ealyx. 
Specimens have the j^etals linear and the stamens very short, not one-litnrtli 
the length of the calyx. Arctic Coast from Greenland to IJehrini,^ Strait .- the 
variety in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and now in the I';;st Ifuni- 
boldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uiutas ; l(l-lL',(»n(i li^-t 
altitude; August, September. (173.) 
Arenaria lateriflora, L. From Khode Island to Wisconsin, north to 
lat. GO'^', and west to the Rocky Monntains and Alaska. Foniid in the Cinta 
JMonntains, Utah; 7,000 li-et altitn.h.; Jnly. (171.) 
Sagina Linx.i:i, Prcsl. (S. decuMiJxns, \\ & G.) Mo.stly glal>roiis; 
stems decumbent, branched. a^crndiiiL^ i 1 ion;r:) leaves linear-snhid.ile, 
very acute ; peduncles much Iodit' t tha;) the heaves: jiotals and ^iy^U .'), 
equal, o1)tuse ; capsnle a little lonirer than tlx- calyx — 'i'iie s]M'cinion> are 
almost wholly apetah)ns, irlahrous, Nsitli narnnvly linear Icavr., uhi<-h ar(! 
mostly mucronate ; sepals oblong or ovate. Northwest Coast and JJehring 
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