FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF INDIANA. 739 



A. longifolia (Muhl.) Britton. Loug-leaved Starwort or Chickweed. 

 (Stellaria longifolia Muhl.) 



In rather wet soils, in low grassy places near streams and open 

 woods, in many counties of the State. 



Flowers from April through June. 



Kosciusko (Coulter); Monroe and Vigo (Blatchley); Putnam 

 (MacDougal); Jefferson (J. M. Coulter); Jay, Delaware, Kandolph 

 and Wayne (Phinney); Noble (Van Gorder); Gibson and Posey 

 (Schneck); Clark (Baird and Taylor); Hamilton (Wilson); Steu- 

 ben (Bradner). 



A. longipes (Goldie) Coville. Long-stalked Chickweed. 

 (Stellaria longipes Goldie.) 

 In moist soils of open places and borders of marshes in a few 

 counties. Not common. 

 Flowers in May and June. 



Vigo (Blatchley); Noble (Van Gorder); St. Joseph (Rothert); 

 Tippecanoe. 



CERASTIUM L. 



C. viscosum L. Mouse-ear Chickweed. 



Very common about fields and waste places, frequently in 

 grassy places. Found throughout the State. 



Flowering season from April through July. 



Tippecanoe (Cunningham); Jefferson (J. M. Coulter); Ran- 

 dolph (Phinney); Noble (Van Gorder); Gibson and Posey 

 (Schneck); Clark (Baird and Taylor); Fayette (Hessler); Monroe 

 and Vigo (Blatchley); Knox (Spillman); Steuben (Bradner). 



C. vulgatum L. Larger Mouse-ear Chickweed. 



Frequent in open woods, meadows and waste places in the 

 State. In the southern counties it sometimes becomes a trouble- 

 some weed. In the northern counties it is much less frequent and 

 from the extreme north seems entirely absent. 



Flowering from April until September. 



Putnam (MacDougal); Vigo and Monroe (Blatchley); Jefferson 

 (Barnes); Jay, Delaware, Randolph and Wayne (Phinney); Clark 

 (Baird and Taylor); Decatur (Ballard); Knox (Spillman); Hamil- 

 ton and Marion (Wilson). 



