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the leaves or terminal, whitish or pink. Sepals 5; petals 5; stamens 2 
to 10; styles 3 except No. 1. Found on or near the sea coast, in wet sand. 
l. §. rubra, (L.) J. & C. Presl. (Fig. 9, pl. 41.) Sanpy Spurry. 
PuRPLE SANDWoRT. Growing in dry soil, in waste places as a low, slen- 
der, spreading weed, stems 2 to 6 in. long. Plant smooth or nearly so. 
Leaves flattened, scarcely fleshy. Flowers bright pink, small, the petals 
generally not exceeding the calyx. 
2. §. marina, (L.) Griseb. (Fig. 2, pl. 41.) Satt-MarsH Sanp 
Spurry. Grows in brackish sands, salt marshes along the New England 
coast, spreading with numerous branches, stems 4 to 8 in. long; smooth 
or with fine hairs. Leaves not in fascicles, bristle-form, rounded, quite 
fleshy, with egg-shaped stipules at base. Flowers small, pink, the flower 
stem about twice as long as the flower. Salt marshes on the coast, also 
those at Salina, N. Y. 
3. §. canadensis, (Pers.) Don. NorTHERN SAND Spurry. Plant 
similar to No. 2, but with white flowers on flower stems three or four 
times as long as the flowers. Muddy shores, R. I., Mass., and northward. 
g. PARONYCHIA, Adams 
Tufted herbs, sometimes woody at base, with opposite leaves and mem- 
braneous, dry, silvery, leaf appendages (stipules). Flowers clustered 
among dry membraneous bracts, without petals. Calyx of 5 divisions, 
bristle-pointed. Stamens 5; style 2-cleft at summit. 
P. argyrocoma, (Michx.) Nutt. (Fig. 7, pl. 43.) Sim~ver WHITLow- 
wort. Growing in tufts in rocky, generally high, situations (White 
Mts., etc.), stems 3 to 8 in. high, with silvery scale-like hairs. Flowers 
in very dense clusters surrounded by dry silvery bracts. Rocky places, 
Maine, White Mountain region and southward. 
to. ANYCHIA, Michx. 
Slender herbs not growing in tufts, with repeatedly forking stems and 
small inconspicuous greenish flowers without petals in the axils of the 
leaves. Leaves elliptic, smooth, opposite, with very small dry stipular 
appendages. Calyx of 5 divisions, greenish without bristle points; 
stamens 2 to 5; styles 2. 
1. A. polygonoides, Raf. (Fig. 6, pl. 43.) ForKep CHICKWEED. 
(A. dichotoma, Mich.) Stem and leaves downy, mostly prostrate or 
partly erect, 3 to 10 in. long. Leaves very narrow, elliptic, rounded at 
apex, about 1/6 in. long, without foot-stalks. In dry thickets and open 
places, throughout our area. 
2. A. canadensis, (L.) BSP. (Fig. 8, pl. 43.) SteNpDER ForKEpD 
CHICKWEED. Resembling the last, but stem and leaves mostly without 
hairs; plant 6 to 12 in. high and usually erect. Leaves 1/4 to 2/3 in. 
long. Dry woods and open places. 
11. SCLERANTHUS, L. 
Low tufted herbs with forking stems. Leaves without stipulate ap- 
pendages, narrow awl-shaped. Flowers green, without petals, at axils 
