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cymes, or often solitary in the lower forks or rarely in the lower leaf axils, 

 on pedicels 2 to 4 or 8 lines long ; sepals iy 2 to 2 lines long, the petals shorter 

 or wanting; capsule greenish or brownish, oblong, nearly a half longer than 

 the calyx; seed microscopically roughened. 



Alpine or subalpine, in wet or cool places, 9000 to 12,000 feet : North Coast 

 Ranges; southern Sierra Nevada; San Bernardino Mts. North to Alaska, 

 thence around the earth. In typical form rare in California, the variety being 

 far more common. 



Locs. South Yollo Bolly, Jepson; doubtless Mt. Shasta (cf. Bob. in Gray, Syn. Fl. I 1 : 

 236, as S. calycantha) ; Medicine Lake, Siskiyou Co., M. S. Baker 487 ; Kaweah Peak, Jepson 

 5003; South Fork Santa Ana River, Wilder. 



Var. bongardiana Fern. Stems 10 to 17 (or 30) inches long; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, % to iy 2 inches long, 1 to 2 (or 3) lines broad; pedicels 

 % to l l / 2 inches long. North Coast Ranges, near the coast; Sierra Nevada, 

 4000 to 6000 or 8500 feet; Mt. San Jacinto. North to Alaska, thence east to 

 New England. 



Locs. North Coast Ranges: Noyo, Mendocino Co., Bolander 4718; Ft. Bragg, Bolander 

 6518; Eureka, Tracy 795; Van" Duzen River Valley, Tracy 2884. In the Sierra Nevada the 

 leaves are usually broader (3 to 5, rarely 10, lines broad) and a few on a stem are often crisped, 

 but so are they slightly in coast specimens. Round Mdw., Giant Forest, Jepson 683 (sometimes 

 4-merous with 4 styles) ; General Grant Grove, T. Brandegee; Pine Ridge, Fresno Co., Hall & 

 Chandler 151 ; Yosemite Valley, Hall. 



Refs. STELLARIA BOREALIS Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 182 (1824), type loc. White Mts., New 

 Hampshire; Fern. Rhod. 16: 144 (1914). Alsine borealis Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 149 

 (1894). Stellaria calycantha Bong. Veg. Sitch. 127 (1832), type loc. Sitka, Bongard. Var. 

 BONGARDIANA Fern. Rhod. 16: 151 (1914). Stellaria longifolia Bong. 1. c. 126, type loc. Sitka, 

 Bongard; not Muhl. 



6. S. crispa C. & S. Stems ascending or reclining, 4 to 15 inches long, simple 

 above the base or sparingly branched; herbage glabrous; leaves rather re- 

 mote, ovate, abruptly short acuminate or very acute, usually crisped on the 

 edges, 2 to 6 (or 9) lines long; flowers solitary in the axils (at every other 

 node or more scattered), on pedicels 3 to 5 lines long; pedicels erect, or often 

 spreading or deflexed in fruit, about half the length of the internode ; calyx 

 iy 2 lines long; petals divided, equaling the sepals or shorter, or none; cap- 

 sule straw-colored, y 2 longer than the calyx. 



Grassy wet meadows, North Coast Ranges. North to Alaska. May-July. 



Locs. Olema, Marin Co., Davy 4343; Hydesville, Tracy 2438; Eureka, Tracy 914; Willow 

 Creek, Trinity River, Tracy 3312 ; Mt. Shasta, ace. Merriam. 



Refs. STELLARIA CRISPA C. & S. Linnaea, 1: 51 (1826), type loc. Unalaska. Alsine crispa 

 Holz. Contrib. U..S. Nat. Herb. 3: 216 (1895) ; Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, 16: 145 (1899). 



7. S. littoralis Torr. Stems stoutish, ascending, very leafy, 1 to 2 feet 

 long ; herbage weakly pubescent ; leaves rather crowded, ovate, acute, rounded 

 at the sessile base, % to 1% inches long ; flowers in a terminal compound leafy 

 cyme; pedicels 3 to 5 (or those in the lower forks 7 to 10) lines long; sepals 

 lanceolate, acute, 2 lines long, slightly shorter than the deeply cleft petals; 

 capsule included within the calyx. 



Bogs or marshes, seacoast only, from San Francisco north to Humboldt Co. 

 May-June. 



Locs. Cliff House, Drew; Pt. Lobos, Michener $ Bioletti; Pt. Reyes, Davy 6731; Bodega 

 Pt., Eastwood; Trinidad, Tracy 2968. 



Refs. STELLARIA LITTORALIS Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4: 69 (1857), type loc. Pt. Reyes, Bigelow; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 167 (1901). Alsine littoralis Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 34 (1894). 



8. S. jamesiana Torr. (Fig. 97c.) Stems .diffuse, 5 to 12 inches high, from 

 slender rootstoeks, often with fusiform-thickened joints; herbage minutely 

 glandular puberulent; leaves narrowly lanceolate to ovate or broadly lanceo- 

 late, 1*4 to 2 (or 3) inches long, the pairs horizontally spreading; flowers in 



