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pen Soe. high up in Bear Canon. June and July. 
50. CARYPHOYLLEAE. pink Famity. 
Herbs, with opposite, entire leaves; persistent calyx; 
4 or 5 petals; usually twice as many distinct stamens; 
2 or 5, mostly distinct, styles; and seeds atached to 
the base or central axis of a 1-celled pod. In ours no 
stipules, and petals without claw or crown. 
Petals bifid. . - ate (1) sTELLARIA. 
Petals entire or wanting, - - - (2) ARENARIA. 
1. sTELLARIA, L. CHICKWEED. 
Stamens ten or fewer, styles three, usually, capsule 
gwlobose to oblong, low spreading herbs, flowers white, 
solitary or cymose niostly 4-angled. 
s. sAMEsSI, Torr. Bracts foliaceous; plant somewhat 
sticky, rather stout; leaves ovate-lanceolate to linear; 
seeds smooth. Fir-Spruce-Aspen Soc. Bear Canon. 
2. arEenaRiA, L. Sandwort. 
Leaves often (as in ours) subulate or rather rigid, 
always sessile. Ours belongs to Arenaria Proper with 
the three valves of the capsule two cleft or parted; 
seeds not appendaged at the hilum; caespitose peren- 
nials. 
A. FENDLERI. Stems numerous from a perennial 
caudex, glabrous below, more or less glandular-pubes- - 
cent above; many crowded leaves at the base; leaves 
long; cymes strict, open-flowered, sepals acuminate 
with a broad scarious margin. Barrel Spring branch 
of Bear Canon. July, ’08. 
Look for A. Sakosa with lanceolate leaves, more 
numerous flowers and the sepals with a “hispid, dis- 
tinct almost keel-like midrib.” 
51. FICOIDEAE. 
Chiefly fleshy or succulent plants with opposite 
leaves and no stipules. Ours are apetalous and with 
the calyx free from the ovary. 
sEsuviuM, L. (Sea Purslane.) 
Usually prostrate plants in saline soil, with axillary 
or terminal purplish flowers, persistent and free, five 
parted calyx, the lobes apiculate below the top, five to 
sixty stamens inserted on the calyx, three to five sep- 
arate styles and a three to five-celled, many seeded 
pod whose upper part falls off as a lid. 
S. portutacastrum, LD. (Purslanelike 8.) Stems 
often one foot long or more; leaves linear or oblong- 
lanceolate, two fifths to one and one-half inches long; 
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