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long. Flowers on long, slender pedicels, with or without a pair 

 of bracts, small, star-like. Sepals ovate with white, membranous 

 margins. Corolla white, a little more than X i^- ^^ diameter, 

 petals longer than the sepals. Capsule surpassing the calyx, 

 acute, dark and shining. Bubbs Creek. 



Stellaria borealis Bigelow. Perennial, with weak, slender 

 stems from creeping roots, smooth throughout. Leaves lanceo- 

 late pointed, sessile, an inch long. Flowers small on slender 

 scattered pedicels, longer than the subtending leaves, deflexed in 

 fruit. Calyx ]/% in. long, sepals lanceolate pointed, with white, 

 membranous margins. Petals much shorter than the calyx, or 

 none. Capsule acute, longer than the calyx, with the dark col- 

 ored seeds showing through the thin walls. General Grant Grove. 



Stellaria Jamesii Torr. Perennial, with angled, weak, gland- 

 ular stems. Leaves lanceolate, long-pointed, sessile, viscid, 1-2 

 in. long. Flowers loosely panicled, with leafy peduncles. Calyx 

 with oblong-linear sepals y% in. long. Petals much surpassing 

 the sepals, white, divided only X~/^ ^^ ^^7 ^^ ^^^ base. East 

 Lake, collected only by Miss Catherine E. Wilson. 



Arenaria macrophylla Hook. Perennial, with low, decum- 

 bent, angled stems from slender, running rootstocks ; pubescence 

 powdery. Leaves rather crowded, lanceolate, pointed, 1-2 in. 

 long. Flowers in flowered cymes on axillary or terminal pedun- 

 cles shorter than the leaves. Sepals ovate-lanceolate with sharp, 

 recurving points ; white-membranous margins longer than the 

 white petals. Stamens exserted. Seeds with a light-colored, 

 spongy appendage. Millwood. 



Arenaria Nuttallii Pax. Stems matted from a tap root, low, 

 glandular, densely clothed with rigid, pointed, awl-shaped leaves, 

 which are Y^ in. long, generally with spreading tips Flowers in 

 close, spreading, terminal cymes, on pedicels shorter than the 

 bracts. Sepals ovate, narrowed to very slender, long, recurving 

 points, reddish at tip, less than X i^- long- Petals and capsules 

 much shorter. Kearsarge Pass. 



Arenaria Douglasii Torr. & Gray. Annual, with spreading, 

 slender stems much branched. Leaves thread-like, an inch or 

 less long, with pubescence slightly glandular. Flowers on slen- 

 der, erect peduncles from all except the lowest axils. Calyx with 

 ovate, membranously-margined sepals, ^ in. long. Corolla 

 white with obovate petals almost twice as long. Capsule round, 

 with margined seeds. Millwood. 



