58 CARTOPHTLLACE^. (PINK FAMILY.) 



2. A. IVIicllclUXii, Fenzl. Erect, or usually diffusely spreading from a 

 email root, smooth ; leaves slender, between awl-shaped and bristle-farm, with many 

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

 3-ribbed, ovate, as long as the pod. 1J. (Arenaria stricta, Michx.) Hocks and 

 dry wooded banks, Vermont to Wisconsin and Kentucky. July. 



* * Leaves soft and herbaceous, filiform-linear : petals rctuse or notched. 



3. A. patula. Diffusely branched from the slender root ; stems filiform 

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

 late, acuminate, 3-nerved, petals spatulate, emarginate. (Arenaria patula, Michx.) 

 Cliffs of Kentucky River, and mountains of Western Virginia. July. 

 Smoothish: leaves '-!' long. 



4. A. Croenlaildica, Fenzl. (MOUNTAIN SANDWORT.) Densely 

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

 ered ; sepals oblong, obtuse, nerveless ; petals obovatc, somewhat notched. 1|. 

 (Stellaria Groenlandica, Retz. Arenaria Gro3nlandica, Spreng.) Summit of 

 the Shawangunk, Catskill, and Adirondack Mountains, New York, and of all 

 the higher mountains of New England, and northward ; alpine or subalpinc . 

 At Bath, Maine, on river-banks near the sea. June - Aug. Leaves and pedun- 

 cles 3" - 6" long ; flowers large in proportion. 



A. o LAURA, of the mountain-tops in Carolina, may occur on those of Virginia. 



8. .ARENARIA, L. SANDWORT. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire, rarely wanting. Stamens 10. Styles 3, rarely 2 

 or 4. Ovary 1 -celled. Pod many-seeded, opening above by as many valves us 

 there are styles, each valve soon splitting into two. Seeds naked at the hilum. 

 (Name from arena, sand, in which many of the species love to grow.) 



1. A. 8ERPYLLIF6LIA, L. (TlIYME-LEAVED SANDWORT.) Diffusely 



branched, rougliish (2' -6' high) ; leaves ovate, acute (small) ; sepals lanceolate, 

 pointed, 3 - 5-nerved, about as long as the petals and the 6-toothcd pod. (J) 

 Sandy waste places. June -Aug. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 A. DiFFtsA, Ell., will probably be found in Southern Virginia. 



9. IfKEIIItlNGIA, L. MOSHRINGIA. 



Seeds strophiolate, i. e. with a thickish appendage at the hilum, smooth. 

 Young ovary 3-celled. Otherwise nearly as in Arenaria. Flaccid herbs; the 

 parts of the flower sometimes in fours. (Named for MuJiriug, a German botanist.) 



1. HI. lateriflora, L. Sparingly branched, erect, minutely pubescent; 

 leaves oval or oblong, obtuse; peduncles 2- (rarely 3-4-) flowered, becoming 

 lateral; sepals oblong, obtuse, shorter than the petals. U (Arenaria latcri- 

 flora, L.) Shady gravelly banks, Maine to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, an! 

 northward. May, June. Leaves ' to 1' long : corolla ' broad, white. (Eu. x 



1C. STELLARIA, L. CHICK WEED. STAR WORT. 



Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, deeply 2-cleft, sometimes none. Stamens 8, 1C, 

 or fewer. Styles 3 - 4, rarely 5, opposite as many sepals. 0> jiry 1 -celled. Pod 



