86 CARYOPHYLLACE.E. (PIXK FAMILY.) 



many others clustered in the axils ; cyme diffuse, naked, many-flowered ; sepals 

 pointed, 3-ribbed, ovate, as long as the pod. (A. stricta, Mich.r.) Kocks and 

 dry wooded banks, Vt. and Penn. to Minn., Mo., and southwest ward. July. 



3. A. verna, L. Dwarf, alpine, densely matted, glabrous or (var. HIKTA) 

 somewhat pubescent, 1-3' high; leaves narrowly linear or awl-shaped; flow- 

 ers loosely cyniose; sepals lanceolate, pointed, 3-nerved, shorter than the pod. 

 Smuggler's Notch, Vt. (Pring/c) ; north and westward. (Eu.) 



* * Leaves soft and herbaceous, filiform-linear ; ji/tals refuse or notched. 



4. A. patula, Miehx. Diffusely branched from the slender root ; stems 

 filiform (6- 10' long) ; branches of the cyme diverging ; peduncles long ; sepals 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5-nerred. (A. 1'itcheri, JViftt.) S. W. Va. to Ky., 

 111., Kan., and southward. 



5. A. Groenlandica, Spreng. (MOINTAIN S.) Densely tufted from 

 slender roots, smooth ; flowering stems filiform, erect (2-4' high), few-flow- 

 ered; sepals oblong, obtuse, nerveless. Summit of the Shawangunk, Catskill, 

 and Adirondack Mountains, N. Y., of the higher mountains of New Eng., and 

 northward; alpine or suhalpine. At Hath, Maine, on river-banks near the 

 sea, and near Middletown, Ct. June -Aug. Leaves and peduncles 3-6" 

 long; flowers large in proportion. 



3. MCEHRfNGlA. Parts of tlte floirer somi I/IIK x in fours ; pod (is in 1, 

 lx.it the ijuniKj ovary 3-celled ; Kir da rather few, smooth, with a thickish ap- 

 pendage (strophiole) at the hilnm ; perennials, with flaccid broadish leaves. 



6. A. lateriflora, L. Sparingly branched, erect, minutely pubescent ; 

 leaves oval or oblong, obtuse (^ - 1 ' long) ; peduncles 2- (rarely 3 - 4-) flowered, 

 soon becoming lateral; sepals oblong, obtuse. Gravelly shores, etc., New 

 Eug. to Peun., Mo., Minn., and northward. May, June. (Eu.) 



4. AMMADENIA. Styles, cells of the ovary, and vah-es of the fleshy pod 

 3, rarely 4 or 5; seeds few, smooth, short-beaked at the naked liilum; disk 

 under the ovary more prominent limn usual, (jlandular, \0-lobed; flowers 

 almost sessile in the axils, sometimes dioecious or polygamous ; root perennial. 



1. A. peploides, L. Stems (simple or forking from long rootstocks, 

 6-10' high) and ovate partly -clasping leaves (8-10" long) very fleshy. (Hoii- 

 kenya peploides, Eltrh.) Sands of the sea-shore, N. J. to Maine and north- 

 ward. June. (Eu.) 



7. STELLARIA, L. CHICKWEED. STARWOUT. 



Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, deeply 2-cleft, sometimes none. Stamens 8, 10, 

 or fewer. Styles 3, rarely 4 or 5, opposite as many sepals. Pod ovoid, 1-celled, 

 opening by twice as many valves as there are styles, several -many -seeded. 

 Seeds naked. Flowers (white) solitary or cyniose, terminal, or appearing 

 lateral by the prolongation of the stem from the upper axils. (Name from 

 stella, a star, in allusion to the star-shaped flowers.) 



* Stems spreading, flaccid, marked longitudinally with one or two pubescent 

 lines ; leaves ovate or oblong, J-2-i' long. 



S. MEDIA, Smith. (COMMON CHICKWEED.) Annual or nearly so ; lower 

 leaves on hairy petioles , jietals shorter than the calyx, 2-parted , stamens 3- 10. 

 Everywhere in damp grounds. (Nat. from Eu.) 



