Sperijularia. CAK V( )ril VI.LA( K,!-:. 240 



also in paths, etc., Now foun.! land to Pennsylvania, and (ace. to Cliapman) N. Carolina; 

 also rarely inland lus far a.s Micliigan, /////; \\. ihrou/,'lj the euniiner. (Kii.. A^ia. S. Ann-r.) 

 Specimens with jietals obsolete or wanting do not seem to l)e rare. Dwarfed siK'cinicns 

 from Labrador, coll. Allen, may al.>to ho of tjiis species. 



# * ♦ Stems very short, 4 lines to 2 inches long: flowers rather small, S-jiarted, terminal: 

 leaves thickish, narrowly linear to suhulate, not proliferous in the ujijier axils but com- 

 monly forming sterile msettes about the Ikisc. 



S. Linneei, I'kksi,. Matted, l to 3 inches high: stems slemier, derunilK-nt, rrx.ting and 

 often producing lateral rosettes: radical leaves narrowly linear, niucronate, 3 Uj 7 lines 

 long, forming dense and mo.stly persistent rosettes; cauline leaves short, few: iM-dicels 

 long, filiform, commonly recurved at the summit; flowers nioderatelv large for the genus: 

 petals not (piite equalling the calyx: cai)sule ovate, conic, even before dehiscence consider- 

 ably exceeding the sepals; the dry valves fully twice their length: stamens .'i to 10.— 

 Hel. llaenk. ii. 14 (Linnei); Fen/.l in Leck-b. 1-1. Ross. i. 3.3'J; Wats. Hot. King Exp. 41. 

 S. saxatilis, Wimm. in Lange, I'l. Groenl. 133. 6". sa(/hioi(les, Britton, Mem. 'I'orr. Club, v. 



151. Spergiila sagiiioitJf's, L Sjjec. i. 441. Alsinella sngiitoides, Greene, Fl. Francis. I:i.'). 



Labrador (?) to Greenland, Ahuska, and southward in mountainous regions to New Mexico 

 and S. California, Palmer, Parish. (Widely distributed in the Old World.) 



S. nivalis, Frie.s. Very condensed, one half to one inch high : leaves subulate, or linear- 

 subulate, 2 to 3 (rarely .5) lines long, forming one or more dense msettes; cauline leaves 

 few and sliort : pedicels spreading, 5 lines in length, .^traiglit or curved but scarcelv ever 

 hooked at the summit: petals e(|ualling tlie purple-edged sepals, about a line in length. — 

 Mant. iii. 31 ; Hook. f. Arc. I'l. '.'ST, 322; Habington, Jour. Bot. ii. 340; Wats. Hot. King 



Exp. 42. S. intermedia, Fenzl, 1. c. Arenaria casiiilom, \'ahl, Fl. Dan. t. 2289. A rare 



plant, first collected in America by Dr. Watson in the Uinta Mts. in I86'j (V. S. Nat. Herb,); 

 since found in Alivska, without the exact locality, Dall ; Kyska llarl)or, Ilarrim/ton : and 

 also in the IJocky Mts. of Colorado near (iray's Teak, Patterson. (Greenland, N. Ku.) The 

 species has l>een reganlcd by some authors, and perhaps rightly, as a boreal or high alpiue 

 form of the preceding. 



♦ * * ♦ Di.'^tinctly fleshy: stems not filiform, more or less branched, .«everal(lowered : 

 flowers 5-parted : si)ecies of the Pacific Coast. 



S. crassicaulis, W.vtson. Smooth: stems several or many, branching, 1^ to 5 inches 

 long: leaves linear, pungent, thickish, 2A to 7 (rarely 12) lines long; the basal forming a 

 rosette wliich may persist or not ; the cauline connate by broad scarious membranes: f>edicels 

 numerous, straight: petals and sepals subequal, U lines in length : cap.^ule one third to one 

 half longer. — Proc. Am. Acad, xviii. 19L .V. occidentalis ('.), Henderson (on authority of 

 Dr. Watson), Zoe, ii. 260. Alsinella crassicaulis, Greene, Fl. Francis. 125. — Heaches, Cali- 

 fornia, Marin Co., Congilon, Monterey Co , Michener & Bioleiti, Tomales Hav, lilaukinship, 

 to Washington, Ilwaco, Henderson, and Vancouver Isl., ace. to .f. M. Macoun. Distinguished 

 from the Japanese S. maxima. Gray, by its glabrous peduncles and calvx. 



« « # # ^ Stems simple, 2 to fi inches in length : ujjper leaves short, proliferous, i. e. 

 bearing fa.s(icles of minute leaves in their axils: flowers .Vparted : ])etals exceeding the 

 calyx: species of the Atlantic Slope, Great Lakes, and Ilud.<on Hav region. 



S. nodosa, Fknzl. Perennial : stems several to many, decumbent, rooting at the base, 

 often 5 to fl inches in length : lower leaves filiform ; the ujtper subulate, only a line in 

 length, bearing a tuft of undeveloped leaves in the axils, thus giving a mniose apftearanco 

 to the slender stems: flowers terminal, large for the genus, 4 lines in diameter when ex- 

 panded.— Verl)reit. Alsin. IS, & in Ledeb. Fl. Hoss. i 340. Sfteniula nodt>sn, L. Spec. i. 440; 

 Fl. Dan. t. 96. — Moist sandy soil, along the Atlantic Coast from Lal»rad.«r (ncc. to .M.icoun). 

 to Cape Ann, J. linhinson ; Anticosti, Pursli ; nUo on l)oth shores ..f Lake Superior and 

 northward to Hud.son Hay, Burke; fl. July, August. Tlie most conspicuous and attractive 

 species of the genus. 



14. SPERGULARIA, J. & C. Prc.'^I. ( Namo a .Icrivativo of Sperquht.) 

 — Annuiils, bitiiiiial.s, or pcruiiuials, usually of marilimo or salino habitat, with 



