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ROBINSON. — ALSINEA. 293 
129. — Rich soil, British America, Mt. Albert, Gaspe, Allen, Porter ; 
Lake Mistassini, J. M. Macoun, and what is with scarcely a doubt the 
same thing at Kicking Horse Lake in the Rocky Mts., J. Macoun. 
(Greenland, N. Europe.) 
A. alsinoides, Wixup. in herb. Minutely pubescent with slightly 
hooked hairs or smoothish: stems long, procumbent, moderately 
branched: leaves narrowly elliptic, acute, narrowed below, commonly 
pseudoverticillate, 8-10 lines long, punctate: flowers axillary, soli- 
tary at the nodes : pedicels filiform, elongated, spreading or horizontal, 
nearly or quite an inch in length: sepals ovate, acute, tuberculate- 
punctate, 13 lines long: petals commonly smaller or wanting: seeds 
smooth and shining. — Schlecht. Berl. Mag. Naturf. Freunde, vii. 
(1816), 201; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 327. «A. diffusa, Ell. 
wari S19. 4 nemorosa, HBK. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 35. A. lanugi- 
nosa, Rohrb. in Fl. Bras. xiv.? 274, t. 63. Spergulastrum lanugino- 
sum, Michx. FI. i. 275. Micropetalon lanuginosum, Pers. Syn. i. 509. | 
Stellaria elongata, Nutt. Gen. i. 289. S. lanuginosa, Torr. & Gray, 
Pet 187, O75. a Gh shaded ground, North Carolina to Florida 
and Texas, Drummond, Hall. (Mexico and S. Amer.) 
A more western form, represented from New Mexico by Fendler’s 
58 and 62 and Wright’s 864, has slightly firmer stems, more numerous 
sub-paniculate flowers, and leaves less narrowed at the base. In all 
these respects it shows a transition to the following. 
A. saxosa, Gray. Finely puberulent but green: stems many, 
Spreading from a rather stout root, decumbent or creeping at the base, 
inches to a foot long: leaves numerous, opposite, not fascicled or 
Pseudoverticillate (sometimes crowded), slightly fleshy, lance-oblong, 
acute, mucronate, 2-9 lines long, sessile by a scarcely narrowed base: 
flowers terminal and subsolitary on short simple peduncles or in stouter 
individuals numerous and more or less paniculate: petals almost or 
quite equalling the ovate-lanceolate sharply acuminate slightly fleshy 
Sepals. — Pp}, Wright. ii. 18; Walp. Ann. iv. 258. Mehringia um- 
brosa, Gray Pl. Fendl. 13, & Pl. Wright. ii. 18, not Fenzl. — Colo- 
tado, Br andegee, Hooker & Gray; Guadalupe Mts., Texas, Havard ; 
New Mexico, Fendler, Wright; Arizona, Rothrock, Lemmon, Jones, 
Rusby, (Lower California, Orcutt.) A species of wide range, occur- 
Ting alike in rocky subalpine regions and much lower upon sandy ~ 
banks, accordingly varying much in height and diffuseness of branch- 
_ © type is a condensed few-flowered form. 
ar. cinerascens. Somewhat more rigid, and grayish through- 
Sut with a fine pubescence: leaves pungent. — Huachuca Mts., Ari- os 
s0na, J. @. Lemmon. (Herb. Columbia Coll.) 
