Siujina. C Ai;V()l'IIVIJ.A('i:.E. 247 



A. t/ii/mi/olia, James, Cat. 181. A. ohtusa, Torr. Ann. \. Y. Lvr. ii. 170. .1. biflora, Wato. 

 Bibl. Inde.\, 94, not L. .1. urcticu, and vars. of variuu.s autlicrs not Stev. SiffUiriu bijimti, 

 L. Spec. i. 422. Alsine bijiora, Walilenb. FL Lapp. 128; Fi-nzl in I.eilel>. Fl. How*. i.a.-iS.— 

 Mt. Alhert, Lower Canada, Alltn, Mucvun, to Labrador and Ik-ring Strait, southward to 

 Oregon, Cusivk, and along tlie Ko<ky Mt.x. to New .Me.xiro. r,„r,i, and Arizona, I.emmnn. 

 ((Jreenhind, Siberia.) A loinnion specie.s widely dintriliuted in alpine and antic regions of 

 the Old and New World ; H. .July, August. Of its numerous and eontluent fornm, seemingly 

 due to iudividual environment, the following only need bo mentioned: var. Ki<.fi>L-|.A, 

 Kobiuson (Troe. Am. Aeud. xxi.x. 305 ; Alsine bijiuru, var. riyidida, Fenzl,l.c.), with leaves 

 erect, firm in te.xture and rather closely imbricated; and var. CAiiNcOsti-A, Hobiuson, 1. c, 

 {Alsine bijioni, var. ainwsula, Feuzl, 1. c), more Haccid, with leaves spreading and slightly 

 fleshy. 



A. laricifolia, L.? Slightly woody and much branched at the bai*e : stems clothed with 

 linear acicular sccund ciliolate-ilenticulate leaves: fertile branches erect, simple, 4 to 7 

 in( hes in height, 2-3-Howered : sepals 3^ lines in lengtli, linear-oblong, ."J-nerved : jK-tals 

 oblong or narrowly obovate, entire, twice as long as tiie calyx. — Spec. i. 424. — An aljiine 

 European species at various times reported from Alaska, but still .somewhat doubtful. I'lants 

 collected upon the rorcui)ine Kiver by J. II. Turner certainly |)o.s.se.s8 much re.semblance to 

 the Europeau plant, but differ in their .shorter sepals and less leafy stems. It is not unlikely 

 that they may prove merely a tall aud long-petalled form of the preceding polymorphous 

 species. 



++ ++ Petals broadly obovate, much exceeding the calyx : Alaskan. 



A. arctica, Stev. Stems 1 to 3 inches long, glandular-pubescent: lower leaves narrow, 

 linear, obtuse, slightly fleshy, crowded upon the bases of the stems, nearly or (juite glabrous, 

 sometimes slightly ciliate<l near the base, half a line in breadth ; n|iper leaves a little l)road<'r ; 

 pairs rather distant: flowers solitary, terminal ujion slender glandular-pubescent pedun- 

 cles, 5 to 7 lines in diameter: capsule 3i to 4 lines long, consideraldy exceeding the sepals : 

 seeds minutely roughened and slightly crested. — Stev. in DC. I'rodr. i. 404; Cham. & 

 Schlecht. Linniea, i. 54; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Ara. i. 100 (exd. vars.) ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 181, in 

 part. Alsine arctica, Fenzl, Verbreit. Alsin. 18, & iu Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 355; Rcgel, Bull. 

 Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxv. 219, 227 (excl. var. breviscapa). — W. aud N. Alaska aud adjacent 

 islands. 



A. macrocarpa, PtRsn. Stems 2 to 4 inches long, covered except near the ends with the 

 deiisclv imbricated lance-linear obtuse conspicuously ciliated leaves; the.se three fourths line 

 broad: flowers solitary, terminal, often exceeding half inch in diameter: valves of the 

 mature capsule fully 6 lines in length; seeds slightly margined. — Fl. i. 318; Cham. & 

 Schlecht. 1. c. 55; Hook. 1. c. 101 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 182, 675. .1. nrrtira, var. /3 fjrandi- 

 Jlorn, Hook. 1. c. 100, t. 34, f. B. Ahine macrocarpa, Fenzl, Verbreit. Alsin. 18; Hegel, 1. c. 

 235, t. 8, f. 6-9; .1. arrticn, var. brpriscai>a, Kegel, 1. c. 228. — W. Alaska near the co:ust. 

 (Siberia.) Hegel's elaborate subdivision of the Siberian forms of this species is not war- 

 ranted in America ii. the absence of abundant fruiting material. 



H_ ^_ Species of the Atlantic and Gulf States, neither arctic nor alpine. 



A. Caroliniana, Wai.t. Stems several to many, glandular-])nbe.scent an<l viscid al>ove, 

 3 to 8 inches in height, densely leafy near the ba.sc : leaves lincar-sulmliite, rigidulons, 

 pungent, triangular in section, channelled above; the lower imbricate.! and more or less 

 ijquarroselv spreading: the upper reduced, di.stant : cymes few-flowered; pedicels slen«ler, 

 ascen.ling": sepals oval, li lines in length: petals broad, nmnded at the apex. — Car. Ml ; 

 Wats. & Coulter in Grav, Man. ed. 6. 85. .1. .s7.Mrr0.sv,. Michx. Fl. i. 273; Ell. Sk. i. 520; 

 Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 95. A. imbricala, Raf. Med. Rep. hex. 2. v. 361, & in Desv. Jour. H<.t. i. 

 220 (1808). A. Rnfinesquinnn, Seriiige in DC. Pro.lr. i. 409. Ahine squarrosa, Fenzl in 

 Grav. Man. ed. 2. 57 ; Gray. Gen. 111. ii. 34, t. Ill ; Chapm. Fl. 49. — Pine barrens, S. New 

 York to Florida : fl. Jiiiie! .Fnly. 

 13. SAGlNA. L. l'r..\Ki.W(.i!T. (Name from the Latin .<m/»»'/r»'. to f:it(cu; 



the plants thoiiiih small ami (Itlicat.' soimtimcs <;ro\v ahumlaiitly in otlu-rwi.^o 



barren regions and are grazed by sheep.) — Low slender herbs commonly ccspitoso 



