ROBINSON. — ALSINEZ. 281 
leaves oblong, 3-5 (-8) lines in length; the uppermost ovate: sepals 
lanee-ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2-3 lines long: petals 14-2 times the 
length of the calyx, obcordate, bifid nearly half way to the base: 
capsule oblong-conic, twice the length of the calyx; the teeth finally 
spreading, — Dauph. iii. 645, t. 46; Fenzl in Ledeb. FI. Ross. i. 396. 
Stellaria cerastoides, L. Spec. 422 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 184; Hook. f. 
Are Pi 288. — T able-topped Mountain, Gaspe, Lower Canada, Allen ; 
Cape Chudleigh, Hudson Strait, Bell; Labrador, Greenland, Holm. 
(Europe and Siberia.) A species now generally appended to Ceras- 
“ium, but forming a transition to Stellaria. 
Me@ycnta Quarernetta, Ehrh. (Sagina erecta, L., Cerastium 
quaternellum, Fenzl.) An erect glaucous annual with subsimple 
stems, 2-3 inches high, bearing 1 or 2 erect 4-parted flowers, was 
found in the thirties near Baltimore by B. D. Greene. It is said to 
have been recently rediscovered there, but nothing more definite has 
been learned concerning its American occurrence. (Europe.) 
10. STELLARIA, L. Cnickweep, Starwort. (Stella, a 
Star, in reference to the form of the flower.) — Low spreading herbs, 
Sometimes a little succulent, mostly preferring a moist shaded habitat. 
ves ~ or very rarely acerose. A genus conveniently but some- 
‘at artificially separated from Arenaria by the more or less deeply 
* petals. — Spee. 421, & Gen. ed. 5, no. 504; Seringe in DC. 
: as : 396; Fenzl in Endl. Gen. 969; Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. v. 
in “ee eh Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 149; Gray, Gen. ii. t. 113; Pax 
Fi Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. 1b, 79. Spergulastrum, Michx. 
Mus - a. __“cropetalon, Pers. Syn. i. 509. Larbrea, St. Hil. Mem. 
» Lar. li, 287, 
“d “inwrea Ménch (as genus). Styles 5, alternate with the 
Hall s — ovate acute. — Method. 225. Malachia, Fries, FI. 
* AQuaTica, Scop. Perennial, with stem strongly angled and 
ewhat pubes 
. Upper sessile, cordate; the lower petiolate: pedicels glandular- 
fruit: petals 14-2 times as long as the campanulate 
pubescent calyx : seeds numerous, dark-colored, tuberculately 
Fall, ay -— FI. Carn. ed. 2, 1.319. Malachia aquatica, Fries, Fl. 
: ~ Beco, Larbrea aquatica, Seringe in DC. Prodr. i. 395 (excl. synon.)< 
Raster Sie frequent upon waste land and public grounds in the 
oe ang tates, and more or less established along roadsides in British 
‘ Yentivg Stratford, Ont., Burgess; Nanaimo, B. C., Macoun. (Ad- 
z {irom Europe.) | 
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