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long slender erect pedicels ; sepals ovate, acute, 3-5-nerved, shorter than the 

 petals; capsule becoming twice longer than the calyx, splitting into 3 

 2-toothed valves ; seeds oblong or orbicular, compressed, smooth.~Stems 6' 

 high ; the numerous sterile shoots matted ; leaves 6-9" long, recent ones a 

 bright emerald-green, the old persistent and purphsh; petals somewhat 

 emarginate or erose-dentate at apex. Fremont's Pass, East Humboldt 

 Mountains, Nevada ; 6,500 feet altitude ; in fruit, August. (170.) 



Arenaeia veena, L. Csespitose, pubescent or glabrous ; leaves hnear- 

 subulate, 3-nerved, erect ; cyme erect, few- or many-flowered ; sepals ovate, 

 acute, 3-nerved, mostly exceeding the petals. — Grreenland, Arctic America, 

 Oregon, and -the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Uinta Mountains, "Utah ; 

 11,000 feet altitude; August. (171.) 



Var. HIETA, Fenzl. Leaves minutely hirsute, obtuse. Grreenland and 

 Behring Strait. Found with the last. (172.) 



Aeenaeia aectica, Stev. Ceespitose ; leaves linear-subulate, obtuse, 

 fleshy, minutely ciliate ; peduncles glandular-pubescent, 1- (rarely 2-3-) flow- 

 ered ; petals about twice longer than the very obtuse 3-nerved sepals. Var. 

 OBTUSA, T. & G. Leaves obscurely 3-nerved, carinate, serrulate-ciliate, the 

 obtuse petals but half longer than the oblong sepals. — Stems 1-3' high, often 

 scarcely exceeding the leaves ; capsule shorter or longer than the calyx. 

 Specimens have the petals linear and the stamens very short, not one-fourth 

 the length of the calyx. Arctic Coast from Grreenland to Behring Strait ; the 

 variety in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and now in the East Hum- 

 boldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 10-12,000 feet 

 altitude ; August, September. (173.) 



Aeenaeia lateeifloea, L. From Rhode Island to Wisconsin, north to 

 lat. 60°, and west to the Rocky Mountains and Alaska. Found in the Uinta 

 Mountains, Utah ; 7,000 feet altitude ; July. (174.) 



Sagina LiNNiEi, Presl. (8. decumbens, T. & G.) Mostly glabrous; 

 stems decumbent, branched, ascending, (1-3' long ;) leaves linear-subulate, 

 very acute ; peduncles much longer than the leaves ; petals and sepals 5, 

 equal, obtuse ; capsule a little longer than the calyx. — The specimens are 

 almost whoUy apetalous, glabrous, with narrowly linear leaves, which are 

 mostly muQronate ; sepals oblong or ovate. Northwest Coast and Behring 

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