238 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 
Sanpwort. Mountain Starwort. Stems in dense tufts 3 to 6 in. high, 
each dividing into a few (about 3) branches above, each slender branch 
bearing a somewhat showy, white flower. The tuft presents a gay ap- 
pearance. Leaves bristle-form, about 1/3 the length of the node between 
the pairs. Flowers about 4 in. in diameter on thread-like foot stalks. 
On high mountains, Adirondacks, Catskills and White Mountains. June- 
Sept. 
5. MOEHRINGIA, L. 
Our species low herbs, perennial, with oblong or oval leaves, with no 
leaf stalks or with a very short one, with small white flowers in a diffuse 
lateral or terminal cluster. Sepals and petals 4 or 5. Stamens 8 or 10. 
Capsule few-seeded, oblong or ellipsoid. 
1. 'M. lateriflora, (L.) Fenzl. (Fig. 7, pl. 41.) BLUNT-LEAVED 
Sanpwort. Stems covered with a fine down, 4 to 12 in. high, erect or 
nearly so. Leaves oblong or oval 3 to 1 in. long, blunt at each end. 
Clusters few flowered, lateral or terminal or flowers solitary, about } 
in. broad, petals and sepals 4 or 5. Stamens 8 to 10. Petals and sepals 
rounded at apex. Capsule nearly twice as long as the calyx. Moist 
places, southern and central New York, New Jersey and southward. May- 
June. 
2. M. macrophylla, Hook. With narrower leaves and with pointed 
sepals. N. Guildford and Durham, Conn., Vermont and northward. 
6. AMMODENIA, J. G. Gmel. 
Fleshy herbs at seaside. Leaves egg-shaped or oblong. Flowers small, 
in the axils of the leaves or at the division of the stem. Petals small, 
inconspicuous, 3 in number, rarely 4, Sepals equal in number to the 
petals. Stamens 8 to 10. Styles 3. 
A. peploides, (L.) Rupr. (Fig. 1, pl. 41.) Sea BEAcH SANDWoRT. 
Stems tufted, 6 to 10 in. high, branching or simple. Leaves egg-shaped, 
the apex sometimes broadest, clasping the stem at base. Flowers about 
+ in. broad, in the leaf axils (usually only 1 flower to a pair of leaves), 
at the branching of the stem or terminal. Sands of the sea shore. June- 
July. 
7. SPERGULA, L. 
Branching herbs with bristle or awl-formed leaves with stipules. 
Flowers in diffuse clusters, white. Stamens 5 to 10; styles 5; sepals and 
petals 5. 
S. arvensis, L. (Fig. 12, pl. 41.) Spurry. Corn Spurry. Stems 6 
to 18 in. high, the whole plant hairy. Leaves with stipules, slender, 
cylindric, awl-shaped, clustered in fascicles about the stem (20 or more 
in a sort of whorl). Flowers white, } in. or more in diameter, in dif- 
fuse clusters at summit of stem. Petals somewhat pointed at apex. 
Sepals about as long or slightly longer than the petals. Mostly a weed 
in fields and waste places. Common. 
8 SPERGULARIA, J. & C. Presl. (Tissa, Adams, Buda, Adams) 
Low herbs with bristle-like, mostly fleshy, leaves, opposite or in whorl- 
like bundles, stipules at base of leaves. Flowers singly in the axils of 
