490 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



type loc. Mohave Desert, S. B. $ W. F. Parish. A. congesta var. parishorum Rob. in Gray, 

 Syn. Fl. I 1 : 242 (1897). 



8. A. capillaris Poir. Flowering stems very slender, bright green and viscid, 

 branching, 2 to 8 inches high, numerous from a matted base of short branches 

 crowning a perennial taproot ; leaves chiefly basal, subulate, 4 to 6 lines long, 

 or as much as l 1 /^ inches long, the cauline few, distant, reduced; inflorescence 

 loosely cymose, the flowers on pedicels 2 to 5 lines long ; petals elliptic-obovate 

 or oblong, obtuse, exceeding the elliptic acute sepals. 



Granite domes and ridges, Sierra Nevada, 6000 to 10,000 feet, south to the 

 San Bernardino Mts. East to Utah, north to British Columbia ; Asia. 



Locs. Sierra Co., Lemmon; Webber Lake, Doten fy Kennedy ; Summit, Nevada Co., Jepson; 

 Fallen Leaf Lake, M. S. Baker; Conness Creek, Tuolumne Eiver, Jepson 3358; Mt. Lyell, 

 Jepson 3330; Clouds Rest, Chesnut $ Drew; Little Yosemite, Jepson 4401; El Capitan 

 summit, Jepson 4366; Black Mt., Fresno Co., Hall $ Chandler 591. 



Var. ursina Rob. More condensed and regularly branched; leaves 2 to 3 

 lines long; sepals blunter, nearly as long as the petals. Bear Valley, San 

 Bernardino Mts. 



Refs. ARENARIA CAPILLARIS Poir, in Lam. Encycl. 6: 380 (1804), type Siberian. Var. 

 URSINA Rob. in Gray, Syn. Fl. T: 240 (1897). A. ursina Rob. Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 294 

 (1894), type loe. Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., S. B. $ W. F. Parish. 



SECTION 3. Alsine. Seeds without a strophiole ; capsule valves entire. 



9. A. paludicola Rob. Glabrous flaccid perennial, the stems procumbent, 

 rooting at the lower joints, sulcate, shining, leafy throughout, 1 to 2% feet 

 long or when growing amongst tules or other plants to 5 feet long; branches 

 few, very long; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, thickish, acute, % to 2*4 

 inches long, slightly connate at base; peduncles solitary in the axils, 1 to 2 

 inches long, spreading or somewhat deflexed; sepals elliptic, nerveless, herba- 

 ceous, l l /2 to 2 lines long, about half the length of the obovate petals; capsule 

 oblong, shorter than the calyx. 



Swamps, Southern California to Washington. Rarely collected. The angled 

 stems are very noteworthy. 



Locs. Santa Ana River near San Bernardino, Parish; near Los Angeles (Davidson, PI. 

 L. A. Co. 4) ; formerly at Fort Point, San Francisco. 



Refs. ARENARIA PALUDICOLA Rob. Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 298 (1894). A. palustris Wats. 

 Bot. Gal. 1: 70 (1876), not Naud. Alsine palustris Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. 3: 61 (1863), 

 type loe. San Francisco, Bolander. Alsinopsis palustris Heller, Muhl. 8: 96 (1912). 



10. A. douglasii Penzl. Annual, nearly glabrous, sometimes minutely 

 glandular- pilose ; stems much branched, 2 to 8 inches high, developing a loosely 

 cymose inflorescence; leaves filiform, 3 to 5 lines long or the lowermost longer; 

 pedicels filiform, 3 or mostly 7 to 13 lines long; flowers numerous; sepals 

 oblong-ovate, narrowly thin-margined, 1 to l 1 /^ lines long; petals obovate or 

 roundish, conspicuous, i/o again as long as the sepals ; filaments of those stamens 

 alternate with the petals bearing a yellow bidentate gland on the under side 

 at base ; capsule sub-globose ; valves rounded at the apex ; seeds large, smooth, 

 compressed-reniform, acutely margined'. 



Sterile soil of hillsides or mesas, 100 to 4000 feet: Coast Ranges and Sierra 

 Nevada; Southern California. Apr.-May. 



Locs. Sierra Nevada: North Tule River, Purpus 5683; Kaweah River, Hopping ; Kinsley, 

 Mariposa Co., Charlotte M. Hook; Jackson, Hansen; College City, Colusa Co., Alice King; 

 Stillwater, Shasta Co., M. S. Baker; Yreka, Butler 660. Coast Ranges: Tehama Co., Jepson; 

 Hyampum, Blasdale ; Harris, Humboldt Co., Ethel Tracy; Round Valley, Westerman; Blue 

 Rock Ridge, Mendocino Co., Jepson 1877; Healdsburg, Alice King; Mt. George, Napa Range, 

 Jepson; Pine Peak, Vaca Mts., Jepson; Burlingame, C. E. Durrell; Livermore Valley, Jepson; 

 San Miguelito Rancho, Santa Lucia Mts., Jepson 1644; San Bernardino Valley, often whitening 



