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ROBINSON. — ALSINEA. 285 
i. 47.— British America from Labrador to British Columbia, north- 
ward to the Arctic regions; Alaska. (Siberia.) 
b. Seeds distinctly rugose-roughened under a lens. 
S. craminea, L. Stems ascending, smooth and shining, 1-2} feet 
high, sharply 4-angled (rhombic in cross-section); internodes usually 
elongated: leaves lanceolate or lance-linear, thickish, attenuate, fur- 
rowed above and with midrib prominent beneath: inflorescence a 
broad terminal pedunculate cyme, often accompanied by one or two 
smaller cymes springing at its base; pedicels elongated, spreading, or 
deflexed: capsule exceeding the calyx.— Spec. 422; Eng. Bot. xii. 
t. 803; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 391; Wats. & Coulter in Gray, 
Man. ed. 6, 87. — Introduced in moist grassy places, Nova Scotia to 
New Jersey, and in Northern States across the continent; common. 
(Europe.) 
S. uliginosa, Murr. Low, weak, diffuse: stems numerous, 
leafy: leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 6-8 lines long, acute at 
each end: inflorescences few-flowered, pedunculate or sub-sessile, 
much smaller than in the last, becoming decidedly lateral, 14 inches 
or less in length: flowers smaller and petals relatively shorter than in 
me related species: sepals very acute, 1} lines in length. — Comm. 
Gott. 1778, 55; Fenzl, 1. c. i. 893; Eaton & Wright, N. A. Bot. 
442, Warming, Bot. Foren. Festkr. 1890, 216, f. 10. S. aquatica, 
Poll. Palat. i. 429; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 186. S. alsine, Hoffm. Fl. 
Germ. i. 153; Muhl. Cat. 45; S. borealis, Darlingt. Fl. Cest. 274. 
Larbrea uliginosa, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 93. — Swamps, Atlantic 
slope, Halifax (Macoun) to Maryland; rare. (Europe.) 
++ ++ Bracts foliaceous (except in S. borealis, var. corollina.) 
= Leaves narrowly elliptical to lanceolate or linear. 
Be longipes, GoLprz, may be sought here, as weak specimens 
"1 solitary terminal long-peduncled flowers do not always show the 
“arious bracts which are developed in more vigorous plants. 
borealis, Bice. Suberect, 6-10 inches in height, smooth or 
Eh 80: leaves lanceolate, attenuate, 6-18 lines long, with one 
Selene 5 nerve: pedicels scattered, 8-14 lines in length, often 
lie i sepals ovate-lanceolate, scarious-margined, acute or often 
ari €@ to an obtusish apex: petals much shorter than the calyx or 
* capsule narrowly ovoid, acutish, 1}-2 times as long as the 
185 % : Seeds smooth. — Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 182; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 
> *enzi, 1. ¢. i. 881; Vahl, Fl. Dan. xiv. t. 2355. S. ealycantha, 
8 Sitch. 127. crassifolia, Boland. Cat. 6. Spergulastrum — 2 
