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S. HoLOSTEA, L. Stem 6 to 18 inches high: leaves narrowly lanceolate, spreading, long- 

 attenuate from near the rounded sessile base, scabrous-ciliate on the margins and midrib, 

 IJ to 3 inches in length, 1-nerved : sepals lance-oblong, thin, nerveless, 4 lines in length, 

 exceeded by the large white petals : styles 3 : valves of the capsule sometimes tardily cir- 

 cinate-re volute. — Spec. i. 422; Reicheub. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. t. 223. Alsine Holostea, Britton, 

 Mem. Torr. Club, v. 150. — Found more or less established in the outskirts of Brooklyn, 

 Long Island, Ruger ; Poland, Maine, Miss Furbish. (Adv. from Eu.) 



-I— -i— Indigenous species of the Southern States : leaves narrowly oblong, linear, or 

 spatulate. 



S. uniflora, Walt. Weak and slender: stems decumbent or suberect, a foot in length: 

 leaves linear, acute, or the lower lanceolate, gradually narrowed below, mucronate, 8 to 12 

 lines in length; the floral much reduced : flowers few, solitary, on elongated slender pedun- 

 cles: calyx soft in texture, sepals scarcely veined. — Car. 141; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 184; 

 Chapm. Fl. 50. Arenaria glabra, Ell. Sk. i. 520, not Michx. ; Wood, Bot. & Fl. 56. Alsitie 

 Walteri, Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 34. — Moist meadows. North Carolina to Florida and Alabama, 

 Winchell ; fl. March to May. 



S. Nuttallii, Tore. & Gray. Annual, a span high : leaves linear-oblong, obtusish ; the 

 upper much reduced but not scarious : flowers in dichotomous racemes ; pedicels horizontally 

 spreading, 9 lines in length: corolla 6 to 8 lines broad. — Fl. i. 183 ; Fielding, Sert. PI. t. 18. 

 Alsine Dnimmondii, Feuzl in Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 675. Alsine Nuttallii, Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 34. 

 — Arkansas, Nuttalt ; Indian Terr., Carleton (ace. to Holzinger) ; Louisiana, Hale; Central 

 Texas, Drummond, Litidheimer, Wright, Hall. 



-I— -1— -I— Indigenous glandular-pubescent species of the Rocky Mts. and Pacific Slope. 



S. dichotoma, L. Stems terete, profusely and dichotomously branched : leaves ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute or acutish, cordate, spreading, 6 to 12 lines in length : peduncles 

 1-flowered, springing from the forks of the branches, considerably exceeding the leaves, 

 commonly deflexed in fruit : .sepals lanceolate, acute, usually about equalling the petals. — 

 Spec. i. 421 ; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 378. — An Asiatic species of great variability. 



Var. Americana, Porter. Leaves oval, obtusish: sepals oblong, obtuse, only 1^ 

 lines long, considerably exceeded by the rather narrow white petals. — Porter in Robinson, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xxix. 289. — Collected near Virginia City, Montana, W. B. Plutt. 



S. Jamesii, Torr. Viscid above : stem strongly angled : leaves elongated, lanceolate, 

 attenuate, smooth, 2 to 4 inches in length, 1 to 8 lines broad near the closely sessile base : 

 flowers in a leafy terminal panicle : sepals oblong, herbaceous, 2 lines in length. — Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y. ii. 169 (as S. Jamesiana), & Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 69 ; Torr. & Gray,Fl. i. 183 ; Wats. 

 Bot. King Exp. 38. "? S. graminea, James, Cat. 181. — Woodlands and "creek bottoms," 

 Rocky Mts. of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona to Central California and Washington, 

 Brandegee, Henderson ; Idaho. ]\riss Mnlford ; fl. June to October. Leaves varying greatly 

 in breadth even on the same individual. 



-1— -4— -1— -K- Glabrous Alaskan densely cespitose species : leaves very small. 



S. dicranoides, Fenzl. Dwarf and tufted perennial : stems numerous, covered with the 

 small oblong cuneate closely imbricated leaves : flowers small, solitary, terminal, short- 

 peduncled : petals shorter than the oblong-lanceolate sepals. — Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 

 395 ; Seem. Bot. Herald, 26, t. 3. Cherl.eria dicranoides, Cham. & Schlecht. Linna^a, i. 63. — 

 Cape Lisburne, N.W.Alaska, Seemann. (Adj. Siberia, Chamisso, Eschschollz.) A very 

 distinct species, but not recently collected nor very well known. 



Jl2. ARENARIA, L. Sandwort. {Arena, sand, a sandy place, from 

 the habitat of several species.) — Leaves sessile or nearly so, either flat and with 

 well-developed blades or more frequently awl-shaped or acerose. Flowers of Stel- 

 laria, but with petals entire or barely retuse (sometimes more deeply cleft in A. 

 patula and A. capillaris). — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, & Gen. no. 374, in part (name used by 

 Ruppius for various Alsinece) ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 150; Wats. Bibl. Index, 

 94 ; Hook. f. & Jackson, Index Kew. i. 1 78 ; Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. xxix. 



