CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 



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5. Alsine pubera (Michx.) Britton. 

 Great Chickweed. (Fig. 1476.) 



Slellaria pubera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 273. 1803. 

 Alsine pubera Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 150. 1894. 

 Perennial, erect or decumbent, 4 / -i2 / high, 

 branching, the stems and branches with two 

 finely hairy lines. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 

 %'-*#' long, acute or obtuse, their margins more 

 or less ciliate, the upper generally sessile, the lower 

 sometimes narrowed at the base or on broad peti- 

 oles, those of sterile shoots sometimes all petioled; 

 flowers 4 // -6 // broad, in terminal leafy cymes ; 

 pedicels rather stout, more or less pubescent; sepals 

 lanceolate, blunt or acute, often scarious-margined, 

 shorter than the 2-cleft or 2-parted petals; capsule 

 subglobose, or ovoid, its teeth re volute after split- 

 ting; seeds rough. 



In moist, rocky plaivs. New Jersey and Pennsylvania 

 to Indiana, smith t Kentucky. Geoqtfa and Alabama. 

 Ods to 4500 ft in North Carolina. May June. 



6. Alsine Holostea (L.) Britton. Greater Stitch- 

 wort or Starvvort. Adder's Meat. 

 (Fig. 1477.) 



Stellaria Holostea L. Sp. PI. 422. 1753. 



Afsinc Holostea Britton. Mini. Torr. Club, $: 150. 1894. 



Krect from a creeping rootstock, glabrous or slightly downy, 

 perennial, $'-2 high, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate, i'-3' long, 2 // ~3 // wide at the base, tapering 

 to a long slender tip; flowers showy, ""-ID" broad, in terminal 

 leafy cymose panicles; pedicels rather slender, downy; sepals 

 3"-6" long, lanceolate, acute, scarious-margined, one-half 

 to two-thirds the length of the 2-clcft petals; capsule globose- 

 ovoid. Stem angled, rough on the angles. 



Along Train's Meadnw Road. I.onjj Island, N. V. ( Rujft-r, 1872). 

 Fugitive or adventive from Kurupe. Native aN<>f ni.rthetn A 

 Also called Allbone. fmm its brittle nodi-s. April June. 



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Alsine longifdlia (Miihl.) Britton. Long-leaved Stitchwort. (Fig. 1478.) 



Stellaria linii;ir\>li<i Miihl.; Willd. Ivnuni. Hort. 



179. 1809. 

 Stellaria c'<""""'" Biffi-l. I'l. Bost. no. 1814. 



Not I, i 



Stellarni /'/ i,-M,in,i Set. in DC. I'rodr. 1:400. 1824. 

 . \l.\im- lon^ifolia Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 150. 



Weak, glabrous, or the stem rough-angled, 

 freely branching, erect or ascending, 8 / -i8 / 

 high. Leaves linear, spreading, acute or acut- 

 ish at each end, > / -2> / long, i // -3 // wide, the 

 lower smaller; bracts lanceolate, \"-\y t " long, 

 scarious; pedicels slender, divaricate; cymes at 

 length ample, terminal or lateral; flowers nu- 

 merous, 3 // -5 // broad; sepals lanceolate, acute, 

 about 1%" long, 3-ncrved, equalling or some- 

 what shorter than the 2-parted petals; capsule 

 ovoid-oblong, nearly twice as long as the calyx; 

 seeds smooth, shining. 



In low meadows and swamps, Nova Scotia to 

 Alaska, south to Kentucky and Louisiana, and in the 

 Rocky Mountain region, British Columbia, northern 

 Kurope and Asia. May-July. 



