Stellaria. CAK Vdl'Il Vl.I.ACK.i:. 233 



S. nitens, Xitt. Amm:il, sli'iid.r, erect, »liining : HtoiiiK filiform, forkcl wvora) tiiiu-i*, 

 leafy and sli;,'lill_v piilitscint mar tliu hiwe, almost iiake<l ami <|iiiu; KlaliMUN alxne ; k-avt'M 

 of two forms, tli<! lowest (I to :i pairs) ovate, acute, only 2 lines I.imk, >,n slemler |K-tioles of 

 somewhat greater length, not always jiersisting; the other leaves laii<elinear, luiite, 3 to 5 

 lines long: sej.als very aeute, searioiis-margine.i, l-.'l iMrvc.l : petals half tw lonj; an tho 

 sepals, sometimes ahsent: capsule oMong, al.out einialling the calyx. — Nutt. in Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 185; Torr. I'acif. li. Kej). iv. 69, & Hot. .Me.\. Hound .JT ; (iruy. I'r.x-. Am. 

 Acad. viii. 378. ^'. vmncltiuides, Fenzl ace. to Torr. & Ciray, Fl. i. C75. .S. slrirta, H<»«jk. 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 96, in part. Alsine nihiia, Greene, Man. Hay-Heg. 33. —S. Calif(irnia to 

 Brit. Columbia, Macoun; eastward to Utah, Juius ; fl. April, May. (l^jwcr Calif.) 



S. OR.\MfNEA, L., with seldom persistent but sometimes slightly petiolato lower leaves, may 



possibly be sought here. 



-»— -i— Leaves all sessile or subsessile. 

 ++ Bracts small, scarious. 

 = Flowers small : petals minute or none. 

 S. Umbellata, Trurz. Smooth: stems weak, a.scending from a docnmbent rooting Itase : 

 k;ivc.s varying fmin lanceolate and acute to elliptic-oblong, 3 to 8 lines in length : pedicels 

 filiform, sub-umi.ellately grouped at the ends of the branches, (jften defle.xed : sejials small, 

 1 to 1^ Hues iu length, glabrous, scarious -margined : ca]jsule twice as long; valves deeplv 

 2-tuothed ; teeth obtuse.— Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1838, 89, xv (1842), 173, Cat. Baie. 5. & fI. 

 Baic.-Dahur. i. 236; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ho.-*s. i. 394; Itegel, Bull. Soc. Nut. M»m\\\\. 

 264, 280; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 38; I'orter & Coulter, Fl. C-d. 13; Brew. & Wats. Bot. 

 Calif, i. 67. .S. borealis, var.. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 94. Alsine IJairalt-nsis, Coville, Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 70. — Mountains of Colorado and Arizona, al.so Sierras of S. Central 

 California, Cocille, to Union Co., Oregon, Cusick ; fl. July, August. (Asia.) 



= = Flowers of medium size: petals equalling or exceeding the calyx (except sometimes 

 in S. uliginosa). 



a. Seeds essentially smooth. 



S. longifolia, Mihl. Stems sharply 4-angled, commonly 8 inches or more in height : 

 leaves linear or linear-oblong, somewhat narrowed at each end, thickish, often ciliate toward 

 the base; the larger ones 1^ to U inches long: flowers rather numerous in a latenil long- 

 peduncled open cyme ; pedicels spreading, horizontal or deflexed : \^eU\\^ and capsule ex- 

 ceeding the sepals: .seeds smooth. — Cat. 45; Willd. Knum. 479; Fenzl, I.e. 392; Gray, 

 Gen. 111. ii. 38, t. 113, f. 1-5. S. f/raminea, Bigel. Fl. Bost. 110. Sinrgulastrum fframi- 

 neuiii, Michx. Fl. i. 276. Mlrropetalun gramineum, Pers. Syn. i. 509. Si. hmqlfolin, Kat. & 

 Wright, N. A. Bot. 319. Alsin<- lon(ji/ulia, Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 15o! — Newfound- 

 land to Maryland, westward to the Ilocky Mts. and northward to Alaska; fl. June, July. 

 (Eu., A.sia.) 



S. longipes, Goi.niE. Smooth and shining or more or less glaucous, spreading at the ba-^o : 

 branches erect, 3 to 12 inches high : leaves linear or lance-linear, gradually narr.nvetl from 

 the base to the acute apex, I-nerved, 8 to 12 lines in length, spreading: flowers irregularly 

 cymose: peduncles terminal or rarely and tardily .somewhat lateral; pedicels elongated. 

 une(|ual, erect: tho lowest often more or less distinctly axillary : sejjals oblong lanceolate : 

 capsule exceeding the calyx, acutish, dark and shining; .«eeils very sniiHith. — Edinb. I'hil. 

 Jour. vi. 327; lKH>k. Fl. Bor.-.\m. i. 95; Torr. & CJray, Fl. i. 184 (vars. o, 0. y\ ; Fen/.l, 

 1. c. 386. S. palustris, Hichards. in Frankl. 1st Jonrn. ed. 1, App. 738 (n-print. p. 10). 

 6'. striria, Kichards. 1. c. ed. 2, Ajjp. 743 (reprint, p. 15). .<?. ArM, Torr. Ann. l.yc. N. Y. 

 ii. 169. S.i/hiuca, .Meyer, I'l. Lal>. 93. .V. rnissi/iilid, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 38.* S. lowji- 

 folia, Hothr. Enum. I'l. Cent. Col. 35. ? Mirmpelnlnn <ir<itiiin>um. James, Cat. 181. Alsittf 

 lonqiju's, Coville. Contrib. V. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 70. — A very variable si«cies market! by it.<« 

 long dark-colored acutish capsules ami very sm(M)th soeils. It is widely distritnited fn>m 

 Maine to Arctic America, and from Ala-ska (al.xo Siberia) southward along tho Hurky Mis. 

 to Colorailo, and on the Tacific Slope to San Mernar.lino. I\„lsh. The commoner form ba.«. 

 acute .«e])als and haves v.irying iin|)crceptibly from flaccid and spreading to ere«-t and some- 

 what pungent (var. )8 nf.NoH, Hook. 1. c. ; .S. stricUi, Kichards. 1. c. etc.). The txpi.al fortn. 



