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indicated. The stem is terete even in a dried state, while the stems 
of A. Franklinii in drying become furrowed and angulate, as though 
slightly fleshy. 
§ 5. Ausine, Wahlenberg (as genus, not Linn.). Capsule ovoid, 3- 
valved ; valves entire; seeds not strophiolate: matted perennials or 
delicate annuals, usually with narrow linear subulate or acerose leaves. 
— Fl. Lapp. 127; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 841; Regel, Radde’s 
Reisen in Ost-Sib. i. 337; Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzent. 
iii. 1b, 82. 
* Palustrine perennial with weak elongated stems, narrow linear or lance- 
inear leaves and axillary long-peduncled fiowers. 
A. paludicola. Glabrous, flaccid: stems several, subsimple, 
procumbent, rooting at the lower joints, sulcate, shining, leafy 
throughout: leaves uniform, flat, l-nerved, acute, spreading, fl) 
inches long, 1-3 lines in breadth, often punctate, somewhat connate, 
slightly scabrous upon the margins: peduncles solitary in the axils, 
1-2 inches long, spreading or somewhat deflexed : sepals nerveless; 
not at all indurated, acutish about half the length of the obovate petals. 
— A. palustris, Wats. (not Gay). Bot. Calif. i. 70, & Bibl. Index, 
97; Greene, FI. Francis. 124; Mrs. Brandegee, Zoe, ii. 341. Alsine 
palustris, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 61.— Abundant in swamps 
about Fort Point near San Francisco, Bolander, Kellogg $ Harford ; 
also in swamps near San Bernardino, Parish Bros.; May to August. 
* * Terrestrial annuals of the Atlantic Slope and Alleghany Mountains, rarel¥ 
extending to the interior in the Southern States, essentially glabrous: 
sepals obtuse, soft in texture, scarcely or not at all nerved. 
A. Greenlandica, Serene. Somewhat fleshy: root at first 
simple, later of many delicate fibres: stems few to many, decumbent 
or erect, subsimple, 2-8 inches long, bearing 1-5 flowers: leaves 
linear, obtuse, 14-7 lines long, at first in a dense, more or less rosulate 
cluster at the base; the cauline 2-4 pairs: sepals broadly ovate, 14-2 
lines in length: petals obovate, about twice as long, entire or notched: 
capsule subglobose to oblong, more or less contracted to a point. —~ 
Syst. ii. 402; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 180; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 95, t. 10 
A. glabra, Torr. Fl. U.S. 455, not Michx.; Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 180. 
Alsine Grenlandica, Gray, Man. ed. 2, 58. Stellaria Grenlandica, 
Retz. Fl. Scand. ed. 2, 107; Vahl, Fl. Dan. vii. t. 1210. ?.S. Labre 
dorica, Schrank, Pfl. Lab. 24; Meyer, Pl. Lab. 93. — Rocky soil, 
chiefly but not always at higher altitudes, Greenland to the coast 
Maine, Bath, Gambel; Bar Harbor, Rand ; also at Middletown, ComP? — 
Osborn, Wright; locally abundant in the White, Green, Adirondach 
