34 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. {Vou. II. 
g. Arenaria Texana (Robinson) Britton. 
Texas Sandwort. (Fig. 1507.) 
Arenaria stricta Texana Robinson; Britton, Mem. 
Torr. Club, 5: 152. 1894 
Similar to the preceding species but lower, 
stiffer, pale green, stems erect, 4’-7/ tall, simple 
up to the inflorescence, conspicuously thickened 
at the nodes, the internodes mostly very short. 
Leaves subulate, stiff, 3/’-6’’ long, strongly con- 
nate, with numerous minute or similar ones fas- 
cicled in their axils; cymes small, rather few- 
flowered, compact or rather loose; pedicels rarely 
more than 8’ long; flowers 4’’-5’’ broad; calyx 
narrowly conic in fruit; sepals narrowly lanceo- 
late, strongly 3-ribbed, long-acuminate, 2’’ long, 
longer than the capsule. 
In dry, rocky soil, Kansas and Missouri to Texas. 
June-July. 
1o. Arenaria patula Michx. Pitcher’s 
Sandwort. (Fig. 1508.) 
Arenaria patula Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 273. 1803. 
Arenaria Pitcheri Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 180, 
1838. 
Annual, branched from the base, slender or even 
filiform, erect or ascending, 4’-10’ high, finely 
pubescent or glabrous. Leaves soft, herbaceous, 
linear-filiform, 4/’-12’ long, %’’ wide or less, ob- 
tuse or acutish; cyme terminal, several-flowered, 
diffuse; pedicels slender; sepals lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, 3-5-nerved, about half the length of the 
emarginate petals and equalling the pod; seeds 
rough, 
In open, dry places, Kentucky to Illinois and Kan- 
sas, south to Alabama, Tennessee and Texas. April- 
11. Arenaria Groenlandica (Retz) 
Spreng. Mountain Sandwort or 
Starwort. (Fig. 1509.) 
Stellaria Groenlandica Retz, Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 107. 
1795- 
Arenaria Groenlandica Spreng. Syst. 2: 402. 1825. 
Perennial from a slender rootstock, densely 
tufted, glabrous, flowering stems slender, 2/-5’ 
high; leaves linear-filiform, the upper distant, the 
lower matted, 3/’-6’’ long; cyme terminal, several- 
flowered; pedicels 2’’-6’ long, filiform; flowers 
4//-6’’ broad; sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious-mar- 
gined, nerveless; half the length of the entire or 
retuse petals and shorter than the oblong pod; 
seeds compressed, smooth. 
On dry rocks, Labrador and Greenland to northern 
New York, Connecticut, the mountains of southern 
New York and Pennsylvania, and on the higher Alle- 
ghanies of Virginia and North Carolina. June-Sept. 
