OG CAnYoniYi.L vcE.K. (pink family.) 



12. SPERGULA, L. Spurret. 



Stamens 5 or 10. Styles 5. 'Vlw 5 valves of the- pod opposite the sepals. 

 Embryo s])irally annular. Leaves in whorls. Otherwise as in Spergulari;u 

 (Name from sjicmjo, to scatter, from tlic seeds.) 



I. S. ARVESSis, L. (Corn Sitrkcy.) Annual; leaves numerous in the 

 whorls, thread-shaped (1' -2' long) ; stii)ules minute; flowers white, in a stalked 

 panieled cyme; seeds rough. — Grain-fields. (Adv. from Eu.) 



13. ANYCHIA, Miehx. Forked Ciiickweed. 



Sepals .'), scarcely concave, indistinctly mucronate on the back, greenish. 

 Petals none. Stamens 2-3, rarely 5. Stigmas 2, sessile. Utricle 1-seeded, 

 larger than the calyx. Radicle turned downwards. — Small, many times forked 

 annuals, with small stipules, and minute flowers in the forks, produced all sum- 

 mer. (Same derivation as the next genus.) 



1. A. dicll6tonia, Michx. Erect or spreading; leaves varying from 

 lanceolate to elliptical, somewhat petioled. Varies much ; in woods or rich soil 

 being very smooth, erect (fi'- 10' high) and capillary, with long joints, the leaves 

 broader and thinner (.'3"- 10" long), and the flowers more stalked (A. capillacea, 

 Niitt. and Queria Canadensis L.) : in sterile or parched soil it is pubescent, low 

 and spreading, sliort-jointcd, narrower-leaved, and the flowers nearly sessile and 

 more clustered (A. dichotoma, DC). Common throughout. 



14. PARONYCHIA, Tourn. Whitlow-wort. 



Sepals 5, linear or oblong concave, awned at the apex. Petals bristle-form, 

 or minute teeth, or none. Stamens .5. Style 2-cleft at the apex. Utricle 1- 

 seeded, enclosed in the calyx. Radicle ascending. — Tufted herbs, with dry and 

 silvery stipules, and clustered flowers. (Greek name for a whil/otr, and for a 

 plant thought to cure it.) 



1. P. argyrdeoma, Nutt. Forming broad tufts, branched, spreadinfj ; 

 leaves linr(ir ; Jloirns dtiisc/i/ clustered, surrounded by conspicuous larrfe silverif 

 bracts; caly.x hairy, sbort-awned ; petals mere teeth between the stamens. 

 1|. — Slides in the Notch of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, and bare 

 summits above. Alleghany Mountains from Virginia southward. July. 



2. P. dich6toma, Nutt. Smooth, tufted ; stems (6'-12' high) oscenrf/n^f 

 from a rather woody base; leaves and bracts awl-slin jied ; cipnes open, mamj-times 

 forked; sepals short-pointed; minute bristles in ])lace of petals, y. — Rocks, 

 Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and south westward. July -Sept. 



15. SCLERANTHUS, L. Knawel. 



Sepals .5, united below in an indurated cup, enclosing the 1-seeded utricle. 

 Petals none. Stamens 10 or .5. Styles 2, distinct. — Homely little weeds, with 

 awl-shaped leaves, obscure greenish clustered flowers, and no stipules. (Name 

 from <tk\j)P(')^, hard, and tivBos, flover, from the hardened calyx-tube.) 



1. S. AxMTs, L. Miu'h branched, spreading (.3' -.5' high) ; flowers sessile 

 in the forks; calyx-lobes scarcely margined. — Waste places. (Nat from Ya\.] 



