ROBINSON. — ALSINEZ. 283 
+ + Leaves acerose. 
S. Kingii, Wats. Cespitose, minutely glandular-pubescent above : 
Toot woody: stems several, 2-7 inches high: leaves crowded below, 
rigid, pungent, light green: sepals spreading or somewhat reflexed 
during anthesis, scarious-margined, exceeded by the narrow petals.— _ 
Bot. King Exp. 39, t. vi. f. 1-3; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. i. 68. — 
Humboldt Mts., N. Nevada, Watson ; S. Utah, Parry, Palmer ; July 
and August. 
+++ Leaves all sessile or subsessile, sometimes narrow, but not acerose. 
++ Bracts small, scarious. 
= Flowers small: petals minute or none. 
8. umbellata, Turcz. Smooth: stems weak, ascending from a 
decumbent rooting base: leaves varying from lanceolate and acute to 
elliptic-oblong, 3-8 lines in length: pedicels filiform, sub-umbellately 
grouped at the ends of the branches, often deflexed: sepals small, 
1-1} lines in length, glabrous, scarious-margined: capsule twice as 
long ; the valves deeply 2-toothed; teeth obtuse. — Cat. Baic. 6, & 
Fl. Baic.-Dahur. i. 236; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 394; Regel, 
Ost-Sib, i. 383, 399; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 88; Porter & Coulter, 
l. Col. 18; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. i. 67. S. borealis, var. 
Hook, Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 94. — Mountains of Colorado and Arizona to 
Union Co., Oregon, Cusick. (Asia.) . 
== Flowers of medium size: petals equalling or exceeding the calyx (except 
sometimes in S. ulsginosa). 
a. Seeds essentially smooth. 
or, Oneifolia, Munat. Stems sharply 4-angled, commonly 8 inches 
=: ah in height : leaves linear or linear-oblong, somewhat narrowed 
14 _€nd, thickish, often ciliate toward the base; the larger ones | 
4-1} inches long: flowers rather numerous in a lateral long-pedun- 
and Open cyme ; pedicels spreading, horizontal or deflexed: petals 
— exceeding the sepals: seeds smooth. — Cat. 45; Willd. 
oy 479; Fenzl, 1. c. i. 392; Gray, Gen. ii. 38, t. 118, f. 1-5. 
Rion” Bigel. Fl. Bost. 110. Spergulastrum gramineum, Michx, 
lia, Bat tank cite gramineum, Pers. Syn. i. 509. AL. longifo- 
i‘ ttwarg right, N. A. Bot. ed. 8, 319. — Canada to Maryland and 
i the Rocky Mts. ; June and July. (Europe and Asia.) . 
: Panini ES, Gotpre. Smooth and shining or more OF lees 
leaves ms Spreading at the base: branches erect, 3-12 inches high: 
"Sate near or lance-linear, gradually narrowed from the base to the 
Ne ‘“pex, i-nerved, 8-12 lines in length, spreading : flowers irregu- 
