94 OAnYoriiYi.i,ACF.,F.. (pixk family.) 



transposed by Linnteus, and by continental botanists ever since.) — Stamens 

 often .■). — The var. ? skmidkcandrum, wliich lias more Icnythtw d fruit-liearing 

 peclictis, is here hardly met witli. (Nat. from Kii.) 



2. C. VISCOSUM, h. (L.u:(.;i;u INI.) 1\ ivimial ; stems clammy-hairy, 

 spreading (6' - l;")' loii^) ; /• aci-s ohlmij : upper bracts scarious-margined ; flowers 

 at first clustered, the fruiting />:(//c<7a longer, the earlier ones mostly much loixjcr 

 than t/ic oltnsf. atji'i/.i ; jictals cqmilling the calyx. — Fields and copses : common, 

 periiaps iiidiuenous to tlic country. May- July. (Nat. from Eu.) 



3. C. nutans, Haf Annual, very clammy-pubescent; stems erect, slen- 

 der, grooved, difl'usely branched (G'-20' high); cyme loose and open, many- 

 flowered; leaves oblumj-lanctolate, acute, the lowest spatulate ; peduncles mostly 

 elongated ; petals longer than the calyx ; pods nodding on the stalks, curved up- 

 wards, thrice the length of the calyx. — Moist places, Vermont to Minnesota and 

 southward. May -July. — Var. uRACiiVroDU.M, Engelm., W. Illinois and 

 southwcstward, has pedicels shorter tluin the pods. 



4. C. Oblongifblium, Torr. Perennial; stems ascending, villous (G'- 

 \2' \\\^h), niiiny-jlowtrtd ; Uuvcs oliloug-lanceolate and ovate; peduncles clammy- 

 hairy ; petals (2-lobed) and ripe puds about twice the length of the calyx. — Kocky 

 places, New York to N. Virginia and Illinois: rare. May -July. — Stouter 

 and larger flowered than the following species. 



5. C. arvense, L. (Field Cuickwked.) Perennial; stems ascending 

 or erect, tufted, downy, slender (4'- 8' high), naked and /no -several-flowered at 

 the summit; I aves linear; petals obcordate, more than twice the length of the 

 calyx ; pods scarcity longer than the calyx. Dry or rocky places, New England 

 to Wisconsin and northward. May -July. (Eu.) * 



§ 2. MCENCHI A, Ehrhart. Petals jntirc or merely retu.ie : the j>arls of the /lower 

 commonly in fours : pod orate, not longer than the calyx. 



6. C. QiATEKXELLUM, Fcuzl. Smooth and glaucous annual ; stem simple, 

 erect (2' -4' high), 1-2-flowered; leaves lanceolate, acute ; |ietals not exceed- 

 ing the calyx ; stamens 4. (Sagina erecta, L. Mcenchia quaternella, Ehrh.) 



— Near Baltimore, in dry ground. (Adv. from Eu.) 



10. SAGINA, L. Peaulwort. 



Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5, undivided, or often none. Stamens as many 

 as tiie sepals, rarely twice their number. Styles as many as the sepals and al- 

 ternate with them. Pod many-seeded, 4-.5-valvcd to the base; valves opposite 

 the sepals. — Little, matted lierlis, with thread-like or awl-shaped leaves, no 

 stipules, and small flowers terminating the stems or branches ; in siunmer. 

 (Name from sagina, fsxttcning ; of dubious application.) 



* Parts of the flower in fours, rarely tcith some few in fives. 



1- S. prociimbens, E. Perennial, de/n-esxrd or spreading on the ground, 

 plalirous; leaves lincar-thread-shaped ; apex of the peduncle often booked soon 

 after flowering; petals shorter than thf broadly ovate obtuse sr/nrls, sometimes none. 



— Springy places and damp rocks, coast of Maine to Pennsylvania. (Eu.) 

 2. S. ap6tala, E. J7»nw/,e/-f>rf, with more slender leaves, narrower sepals, 



and petals none or ol)solete. — Dry soil, New York and Pennsylvania to Illinois: 

 scarce, seemingly native ? (Eu.) 



