ROBINSON: — ALSINEA. a M8 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,88. C. vulgatum, Linn. in herb.; Torr. & Gray, 
Fl. i. 187; Gray, Man. eds. 1-5; and others. C. hirsutum, Muhl. 
Cat. 46. C. glomeratum, Thuill. as used by Hooker, f. and others. 
C. connatum, Beck, Bot. 55. Depauperate forms with few flowers 
and short capsule have been regarded as indigenous, being the 
C. viscosum, var. tenellum, Grenier, 1. c. 266, and the ,C. semidecan- 
drum, auct. (not of Linn.). — Widely distributed in the United States 
and Canada, but much less common than the following; probably 
introduced from Europe. Delicate specimens apparently to be referred 
to this species, but with minute apetalous flowers, have been collected 
at San Diego, Calif., Oreutt. 
C. vuteatum, L. (Common Mouss-EAR CHICKWEED.) Peren- 
hial, viscid-pubescent, a little taller and more spreading than the last : 
leaves oblong, obtusely pointed : flowers larger: the lower pedicels in 
fruit considerably exceeding the calyx: bracts herbaceous : sepals 2-3 
lines long, obtuse, often purple-tipped, appearing acute through the 
infolding of the scarious margins: petals as long as the calyx. — Spec. 
ed. 2, 627 ; Regel, Ost-Sib. i. 432; Wats. Bibl. Index, 101; Wats. & 
Coulter in Gra » Man. ed. 6, 88. ©. viscosum, Linn. in herb. ; Torr. 
© Gray, Fi. i. 187; Gray, Man. eds. 1-5, ete. ©. fulrum, Raf. Prée. 
Découv. 36. ©. triviale, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 433. — Very 
common in fields, etc., but also often remote from habitations and 
Cultivated ground, thus perhaps native. Flowering through the 
summer, 
oC. SEMIDECANDRUM, L. Near the two preceding, but smaller and 
. _ shorter leaves : the bracts, at least the upper ones, conspicuously 
me C. vulgatum, var. ? semidecandrum, Gray, Man. ed. 5, 94. — 
New Jersey, Britton, Peters, to Norfolk, Va., Britton, Small. (Ad- 
pe.) 
++ Pods 2-3 times as long as the calyx : indigenous species. 
— brachypodum. Pale green, finely pubescent and sometimes 
le viseid : leaves linear-oblong to oblanceolate, obtusish, seldom more 
_ 2 inch in length: flowers in more or less open dichotomous cymes ; 
— even the lower ones, only equalling or little exceeding the 
Psules, erect or deflexed, straight or gently curved, not hooked. — 
to by 
ee Anderson, 238, Watson, 156; Arizona, Palmer; New 
. Xico, Fendler, 61; Texas, Wright. (Mex. Schaffner, Palmer.) 
™ Fenzl, mentioned in Watson's Index (but never pubs 
