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1. A. squarrosa, Fenzl. Stems tufted; leaves subulate, rigid, those of 
the glandular flowering stems distant, of the sterile stems imbricated, with - 
- spreading tips ; sepals ovate, obtuse, shorter than the capsule. (Arenaria squar- 
rosa, Michx.) — Dry sand-hills, West Florida and northward. April and May. 
Y — Stems 6'- 10/ high. Cymes few-flowered. Pedicels rigid. 
2. A. glabra, Gray. Smooth; stems filiform, sparingly branched ; leaves 
tender, narrow-linear, obtuse, spreading ; cyme few-flowered, spreading ; sepals 
oblong, obtuse, faintly 3-ribbed, as long as the capsule. (Arenaria glabra, Michz.) 
— Mountains of North Carolina. July. 1|? — Stems tufted, 4 - 6’ high. Cymes 
leafy. Pedicels setaceous. Leaves }/-1’ long. 
3. A. patula, Gray. Minutely pubescent; stem filiform, diffusely branched 
from the base; leaves narrow-linear, spreading ; cyme spreading, few — many- 
flowered ; pedicels very slender; petals spatulate, emarginate, twice the length 
of the lanceolate acute 3 —5-nerved sepals. (Arenaria patula, Michx.) — Rocks 
around Knoxville, Tennessee, and northward. — Stems 6/—10! high. 
4. A. Michauxii, Fenzl. Smooth ; stems tufted, erect or diffuse, straight ; 
leaves linear-subulate, erect, spreading or recurved, much clustered in the axils; 
cymes spreading or contracted ; petals oblong-obovate, twice as long as the rigid 
ovate acute 3-ribbed sepals. (Arenaria stricta, Michx.) — Rocks and barren soil, 
Georgia and northward, May and June. — Stems 3' - 10! high. 
5. A. brevifolia. Stems smooth, ‘not tufted, erect, filiform, aiio; 
2-5-flowered; leaves minute (1"—9"), erect, lance-subulate; sepals oblong, 
obtuse; ad Jong: a6 the dipitet petals twice as long as the sepals. (Arenaria 
brevifolia, Nutt.) — Rocks in the upper districts of Georgia. (1) — Stems 2! — 4' 
long, bearing 3 or 4 pairs of leaves. Flowers small, on filiform peduncles. 
ll. ARENARIA, L. Sanpworr. 
Petals 1-5, or none. Styles 2-4. Capsule opening above by as many 
valves as there are styles, each valve soon splitting into two pieces. Otherwise 
like Alsine. 
1. A. diffusa, Ell. Downy; stem elongated, prostrate, alternately short- 
branched ; leaves lanceolate ; peduncles longer than the leaves, lateral, re- 
flexed in fruit; petals 1 — 5, shorter than the sepals, often wanting. (Stellaria 
elongata, Nutt. Micropetalon lanuginosum, Pers.) — Shady banks, Florida to 
North Carolina and westward. May- October. )| — Stems 1°-4° long. 
2. A. serpyllifolia, L. Downy ; stems diffusely branched ; leaves small, 
ovate, acute, the lowest narrowed into a petiole ; flowers cymose; petals much 
shorter than the lanceolate acuminate sepals. — Waste places, Florida and north- 
ward. Introduced. April and May. (3) — Stems 6’-12' long. Leaves j'long. 
12. STELLARIA, L. CurcxwzEp. Srarwort. 
Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, 2-cleft, or 2-parted. - ‘Stamens 3 - 10. Styles 3-5, T 
_ opposite the sepals. Caprio ee ee — 
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