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CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



long) but commonly strictly erect; calyx iy 2 to 2 lines long; petals cleft nearly 

 to the base, equaling or exceeding the sepals ; capsule dark or black, exceeding 

 the calyx; seed microscopically and scantily puberulent, nearly smooth. 



Common in moist often grassy places in the mountains, 4300 to 8500 feet. 



Locs. Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3346; Mineral King, G. W. Purdy ; 

 meadows on Volcano Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 4959, 4928; Bubbs Creek, Jepson 788; Pine 

 Eidge, Fresno Co., Hall <$ Chandler 170; Yosemite Valley, Jepson; Piute Creek, Yosemite Park, 

 Jepson 3401; Lundy, Mono Co., Maud Minthorn; Deer Park, Placer Co., C. J. Fox, Jr.; Little 

 Truckee, Doten; Big Mdws., Plumas Co., B. M. Austin, Jepson 4054; Ft. Bidwell, Mary H. 

 Manning 144; Bear Flat, n.e. Shasta Co., Hall <$ Babcock 4158; Quartz Valley, Siskiyou Co., 

 Butler 1463; South Yollo Bolly, Jepson. 



Var. laeta Wats. Herbage glaucous. Long Mdw., Volcano Creek, Jepson 

 4961. Also far northward. 



Eefs. STELLABIA LONGIPES Goldie, Edinb. Phil. Jour. 6: 327 (1822), type loc. near Lake 

 Ontario, Canada. Alsine longipes Cov. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 70 (1893). Var. LAETA 

 Wats. Bibl. Index, 112 (1878). Stellaria laeta Eich.; Franklin's 1st Journ. App. 7, ed. 1, 738 

 (1823), loc. class, "barren grounds from Point Lake to the Arctic Sea." 



Fig. 97. a, STELLARIA LONGIPES Goldie, terminal portion of flowering branch, 

 x 1. b, petal, x 2. c, STELLARIA JAMESIANA Torr. ; terminal portion of 

 flowering branch, x 1. 



5. S. borealis Bigel. Stems erect or spreading, weak, sparingly branched, 

 to 10 inches long; herbage glabrous; leaves ovate to elliptic-ovate, or acute, 

 3 to 5 lines long, sometimes a little crisped; flowers in loose terminal leafy 



