22 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. [Vor.. II. 
5. Alsine pubera (Michx.) Britton. 
Great Chickweed. (Fig. 1476.) 
Stellaria pubera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 273. 1803. 
Alsine pubera Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 150. 1894. 
Perennial, erect or decumbent, 4/-12’ high, 
branching, the stems and branches with two 
finely hairy lines. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 
14-214’ long, acute or obtuse, their margins more 
or less ciliate, the upper generally sessile, the lower 
sometimes narrowed at the base or on broad peti- 
oles, those of sterile shoots sometimes all petioled; 
flowers 4//-6’’ broad, in terminal leafy cymes; 
pedicels rather stout, more or less pubescent; sepals 
lanceolate, blunt or acute, often scarious-margined, 
shorter than the 2-cleft or 2-parted petals; capsule 
subglobose, or ovoid, its teeth revolute after split- 
ting; seeds rough. 
In moist, rocky places, New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
to Indiana, south to Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama. 
Ascends to 4500 ft. in North Carolina. May-June. 
6. Alsine Holostea (L.) Britton. Greater Stitch- 
wort or Starwort. Adder’s Meat. 
(Fig. 1477.) 
Stellaria Holostea I. Sp. Pl. 422. 1753. 
Alsine Holostea Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 150. 1894. 
Erect from a creeping rootstock, glabrous or slightly downy, 
perennial, 8’-2° high, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 
sessile, lanceolate, 1/-3/ long, 2’’-3/’ wide at the base, tapering 
to along slender tip; flowers showy, 7’’-10’’ broad, in terminal 
leafy cymose panicles; pedicels rather slender, downy; sepals 
3//-6’’ long, lanceolate, acute, scarious-margined, one-half 
to two-thirds the length of the 2-cleft petals; capsule globose- 
ovoid. Stem angled, rough on the angles. 
Along Train’s Meadow Road, Long Island, N. Y. (Ruger, 1872). 
Fugitive or adventive from Europe. Native also of northern Asia. 
Also called Allbone, from its brittle nodes. April-June. 
7. Alsine longifolia (Muhl.) Britton. Long-leaved Stitchwort. (Fig. 1478.) 
. Stellaria longifolia Muhl.; Willd. Enum. Hort. 
Ber. 479. 1809. 
Stellaria graminea Bigel. Fl. Bost. 110. 1814. 
Not L. 1753. 
Stellaria Friesiana Ser. in DC. Prodr. 1: 400, 1824. 
Alsine longifolia Britton, Mem. Torr, Club, 5: 150. 
1894. 
Weak, glabrous, or the stem rough-angled, 
freely branching, erect or ascending, 8/—15/’ 
high. Leaves linear, spreading, acute or acut- 
ish at each end, %4’-2%’ long, 1’/-3’” wide, the 
lower smaller; bracts lanceolate, 1/’-114’’ long, 
scarious; pedicels slender, divaricate; cymes at 
length ample, terminal or lateral; flowers nu- 
merous, 3//-5’’ broad; sepals lanceolate, acute, 
about 1'4’’ long, 3-nerved, equalling or some- 
what shorter than the 2-parted petals; capsule 
ovoid-oblong, nearly twice as long as the calyx; 
seeds smooth, shining. 
In low meadows and swamps, Nova Scotia to 
Alaska, south to Kentucky and Louisiana, and in the 
Rocky Mountain region, British Columbia, northern 
Europe and Asia. May-July. 
