PINK FAMILY 487 



Locs. — Tehama Co., Jepsnn in 1890; Jackson, Hun.tcn in 1892. 



Refs. — Sagina apetala Anl. Animad. Bot. Sp. Alt. 22, t. 8 (1763). Var. babbata Fenzl; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 1: 338 (1842), type loc. Russia. .S'. apetala Jepson, Fl. W Mid. Cal. 169 

 (1901). Alsinella ciliata Greene, Fl. Fr. 126 (1891), type loc. lone. Sagina ciUata Heller, 

 Muhl. 1: 50 (1904). 



3. S. linnaei Presl. Arctic Peablwort. Biennial or perennial ; stems numer- 

 ous, forming a close mat, 1 to 3 inches high, often with leaf-ro.settes at base ; 

 herbage ghibroiis; leaves thiekish, linear, 3 to 5 or 8 lines long; pedicels fili- 

 form, commonly recurved at summit: stamens 10; petals i/2 to % t'le length 

 of the sepals; capsule ovate-conic, IVs to 2 times length of the calyx. 



High wet nu'adows or on rocks, 4000 to 11,000 feet: Sierra Nevada; San 

 Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains ; North Coast Kanges. North to Alaska, 

 thence around the earth. June-July. 



Locs.— Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2203; Bhifif Lake, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3605; Kings 

 Caiion, Jeiison 769; Bullfrog Lake, Jcitsoii. 843; Pine Ridge, Fresno Co., Ball tj- Chandler 135; 

 Yosemite, Hall 8879; Woolly Creek, \v. Siskiyou, Butler 48; South Yollo Bolly, Jepson. 



Refs. — Sagina linnaei Presl. Eel. Haeuk. 2: 14 (1835). Speriiiila saiiinoides L. Sp. PI. 

 441 (1753), type Europo-Asiatie. Sagina saginoides Britt. Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 151 (1894). 



4. S. crassicaulis Wats. Glabrous perennial, the stems stoutish and succu- 

 h^it, In-anching, 1 to 5 inches long, decumbent: leaves linear, thiekish, 2 to 9 

 lines long, the basal forming a rosette, the caidine connate by broad scarious 

 membranes; flowers erect or nodding; petals and sepals subeqnal, fij lines 

 long; stamens 10; capsule ovate, little exserted from the fruiting cal.vx. 



Beaches along the coast from Monterey to Tomales Bay. Washington aiul 

 British Columbia. Juue-Jul}'. 



Locs. — Monterey, Miehener cf- Bioletti; cliffs at mouth of Bear Valley, Marin Co., Davy 

 4319 ; Pt. Reyes, Davy 6720, 6756. 



Refs. — S.agina crassicaulis Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 18: 191 (1883), type loc. Dillon's 

 Beach, Marin Co., Congdon; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid, Cal. 169 (1901). Alsinella crassicaulis 

 Greene, Fl. Fr. 125 (1891). 



4. ARENARIA L. Sandwort. 



Low branching annuals, or tufted or matted perennials. Leaves mostly 

 subulate or acerose and pungent, but often linear, lanceolate or ovate. Flowers 

 white, in terminal cymes or heads, rarely solitary and axillary. Sepals 5. 

 Petals 5, entire or nearly so. Stamens 10. Styles 3. Capsule globose or short- 

 oblong, dehiscent into as many entire or 2-cleft valves as there are styles. — 

 Species about 160; around the whole earth save the southern hemisphere of 

 the Old World, but chietly in cold northern regions. (Latin arena, sand, in 

 which many species grow.) 



Capsule valves 2-toothed or 2-eleft. 



Leaves linear, lanceolate or ovate (1 or 2 lines broad), not acerose or pungent. 

 Perennial. 



Plants with running rootstocks; leaves linear-lanceolate....!. A. maerophylla. 



Plants without rootstocks; leaves oblanceolate to linear 2. A. snrosa. 



Annual; leaves ovate 3. A. serpyllif olia. 



Leaves subulate or like pine needles, mostly pungent ; perennial. 



Condensed alpine plant 4. A. compacta. 



Taller or more loosely branched plants. 



Flowering stems simple, the flowers capitate or undjellate 5. A. congesta. 



Flowering stems branching. 



Stout or compact; (ireat Basin species. 



Rare; foliage glaucous 6. A. aculcata. 



More common ; not glaucous 7. A. macradenia. 



Slender ; high Sierra Nevada 8. A. capillaris. 



Capsule valves entire. 



Lower altitudes, mostly of the foothills. 



Swamp i)lant ; perennial 9. A. paludicola. 



Dry grcninil plants: low annuals. 



