40 F CARYOPHYLLACEAE. [Von IL; 
22. ANYCHIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 112. 1803. 
Annual herbs, with repeatedly forking stems, elliptic oval or oblanceolate opposite 
mostly punctate very short-petioled leaves, small scarious stipules, and minute green apetal- 
ous flowers. Calyx 5-parted, its segments oblong, concave, notawned. Stamens 2-5, inserted 
on the base of the calyx; filaments filiform. Staminodia wanting. Ovary subglobose, com- 
pressed; styles 2, distinct, or united at the base; ovule solitary, amphitropous. Utricle sub- 
globose, somewhat compressed, longer than the calyx. [Derivation same as the preceding 
genus. } 
Only the following species, natives of eastern North America. 
Pubescent; flowers sessile; stems mostly prostrate or ascending. 1. A. dichotoma. 
Glabrous or nearly so; flowers pedicelled; stems usually erect. 2. A. Canadensis. 
1. Anychia dichOtoma Michx. Forked 
Chickweed. (Fig. 1522.) 
Anychia dichotoma Michx, Fl. Bor. Am, 1: 113. 
1803. 
Pubescent, stems mostly prostrate or ascending, 
much forked, 3/-10’ high, the internodes often 
shorter than the leaves. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 
2//-4/’ long, %’/-1’’ wide, mucronate or acute at 
the apex, sessile, or the base tapering into a very 
short petiole, usually very numerous and crowded; 
flowers sessile in the forks, more or less clustered, 
scarcely 14’’ high, inconspicuous except when fully 
expanded; stamens commonly 2 or 3, sometimes 5 
In dry woods, thickets and in open places, Maine 
to Minnesota, south to Florida, Alabama and Arkan- 
sas. Ascends to 5200 ft. in Georgia. June-Sept. 
2. Anychia Canadensis (L.) B.S.P. 
Slender Forked Chickweed. 
(Fig. 1523.) 
Queria Canadensis L,. Sp. Pl. go. 1753. 
Queria capillacea Nutt. Gen. 1: 159. _ 1818. 
Anychia dichotoma var. capillacea Torr. Fl. U. S. 
I: 273. 1824. 
Anychia capillacea DC. Prodr. 3: 369. 1828. 
Anychia Canadensis B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 1888. 
Glabrous or very nearly so, stem very slender 
or filiform, usually erect, repeatedly forked 
above, 6/—12/ tall, the internodes sometimes 1/ 
long, much longer than those of the preceding 
species. Leaves elliptic, oval or sometimes ob- 
lanceolate, 3/’-8’’ long, 1/’-4’’ wide, obtuse or 
short-pointed at the apex, narrowed into petioles 
about 1’’ long, not crowded; flowers minute, 
more or less pedicelled. 
In dry woods, Ontario to Massachusetts and 
Georgia, west to Minnesota and Arkansas. Ascends 
to 4200 ft. in North Carolina. June-Sept. 
23. SCLERANTHUS L.. Sp. Pl. 406. 1753. 
Low annual herbs, with rather stiff forking stems, opposite subulate leaves connate at 
the base, no stipules and minute green clustered apetalous flowers. Calyx not bracted, 
deeply 5-lobed (rarely 4-lobed), the lobes awnless, the cup-like tube hardened. Stamens 
I-10, inserted on the calyx-tube. Ovary ovoid; styles 2, distinct; ovule solitary, pendulous, 
amphitropous. Utricle 1-seeded, enclosed by the calyx. [Greek, referring to the hard 
calyx-tube. ] 
About ro species, of wide geographic distribution in the Old World, the following naturalized 
from Europe as a weed. 
