74 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



Excluded Species. 



Hooker on page 101 of his Flora of North America mentions A. 

 fasciculata, Pursh, as occurring in Canada. There is no doubt but that 

 the plant intended is A. Miflhauxii, as the leaves of that species are 

 always in fascicles in the axils of the branches. 



82. STELLARIA, Linn. (CHICKWEED STAR-WORT.) 



(293.) S. media. Smith. Common Chickweed. 

 Holosteum succulentum. Linn. Pursh. 90. 



Introduced into all garden grounds from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 

 Greenland. (Hook. Arct. PI.) 



(294.) S. longifolia, Muhl. Long-leaved Stitch wort. 



Spergulastrum gramineum, Michx. Fl. L, 276. 



Micropetalon gramineum, Pers. Pursh, 320. 



Stellaria graminea, Bigel. Richards, in Frankl. Journ., 10. 



Grassy places ; quite common from Nova Scotia to the Pacific Coast. 

 It is a northern species and delights in grassy margins of woodland 

 brooks. (Macoun.) Woody country from Lat. 54-64. (Richardson.) 

 Sitka and Kotzebue Sound. (Hothr. Alask.) 



(295.) S. borealis, Bigel. Northern Stitchwort. 



Spergulastrum lanceolatum, Michx. Fl. L, 275. 

 Micropetalon lanceolatum, Pers. Pursh, 320. 



Very common in mud on brook margins and in open swamps from 

 the Atlantic to the Pacific, and north to Fort Norman in Lat. 65. 

 Magdalen Islands, Gulf of St. Lawrence. (McKay.) Greenland. (Hook. 

 Arct. PL) 



Var. alpestris, Gray, Manual, 93. 



Stellaria alpestris, Fries. 



S. brachypetala, Bong. Torr. & Gray, Fl. L, 186. 



S- borealis, var. corollina, Fenzl. Macoun's Cat., No. 274. 



S. longifolia, PI. Bourgeau, 255 in part. 



S. gracilis, Richards. Macoun & Gibson. 



Pie Island, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, growing in tufts close to 

 the water, 1869. At Yale, B. C. (Macoun.) Saskatchewan Plains. 

 (Bourgeau.) Sitka. (Torr. & Gray.) 



(296.) S. calycantha, Bongard. Torr. and Gray, Fl. I, 186. 

 This species is referred to S. borealis by Sereno Watson in his Index 



