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6. Alsine Holostea (L.) Britton. Greater Stitchwort or Starwort. 

 Adder's Meat. (I. F. f. 1477.) Erect from a creeping rootstock, glabrous 

 or slightly downy, 4-6 dm. high. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, 2-8 cm. long, taper- 

 ing to a long slender tip ; flowers showy, 1.4-3 cm - broad, in terminal leafy 

 cymose panicles ; pedicels down}- ; sepals lanceolate, acute, one-half to two-thirds 

 the length of the 2-cleft petals; capsule globose-ovoid. Along Train's Meadow 

 Road. Long Island, N. Y. ; Poland, Me. Fugitive or adventive from Europe. 

 Native also of northern Asia. Also called Allbone, from its brittle nodes. April- 

 June. 



7. Alsine longifolia (Muhl.) Britton. Long-leaved Stitchwort. (I. F. f. 

 1478.) Weak, glabrous, or the stem rough-angled, freely branching, 2-5 dm. 

 high. Leaves linear, spreading, acute or acutish at each end, 2-6 cm. long, 

 2-6 mm. wide, the lower smaller ; bracts lanceolate ; pedicels slender, divaricate ; 

 cymes terminal or lateral ; flowers numerous, 6-10 mm. broad ; sepals lanceolate, 

 acute, 3-nerved, equalling or somewhat shorter than the 2-parted petals ; capsule 

 ovoid-oblong, nearly twice as long as the calyx ; seeds smooth, shining. In low 

 meadows and swamps, Newf. to Alaska, Ky. and La., and in the Rocky Mountain 

 region, Br. Col. , northern Europe and Asia. May-July. 



8. Alsine graminea (L.) Britton. Lesser Stitchwort. Lesser Starwort. 

 (I. F. f. 1479.) Weak, glabrous, ascending from creeping rootstocks, 3-5 dm. high 

 or long; stem 4-angled. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 cm. 

 long, 4-6 mm. wide, broadest just above the base, acute, the lower smaller; cymes 

 diffuse; pedicels spreading; bracts scarious, often ciliate, lanceolate, 4-6 mm. 

 long; flowers 6-10 mm. broad; sepals lanceolate, acute; petals 2-cleft, about the 

 length of the sepals; capsule oblong, exceeding the sepals; seeds hnely roughened. 

 In fields and along roadsides, Newf. to Ont. and Md. Adventive from Europe. 

 May-July. 



9. Alsine longipes (Goldie) Coville. Long-stalked Stitchwort. (I. F. f. 

 1480.) Tufted, simple, or sparingly branched, 0.7-3 dm. high, glabrous, shining, 

 rarely glaucous or pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. 1-3.5 cm ' 

 long, 2-6 mm. wide at the base, rigid, ascending or erect; flowers few, 6-10 mm. 

 broad, terminal, on long erect pedicels; bracts lanceolate; sepals ovate or lanceo- 

 late, acute or acutish; petals 2-cleft, exceeding the calyx; capsule ovoid, longer than 

 the sepals; seeds smooth. In moist places. Lab. and N. S. to northern New Eng- 

 land, Alaska and Minn., south in the Rocky Mts. to Colo., and in Cal. Also in 

 northern Asia. Summer. 



Alsine longipes Edwdrdsii (R. Br.) Britton. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 sparingly ciliate at the base ; stems 2-3-flowered, 5-8 cm. tall. Lab. and Quebec, through 

 arctic America to Siberia. 



Alsine longipes peduncuUris (Bunge) Britton. Stem 5-15 cm. high, bearing 1-3 

 larger flowers on longer pedicels; stem more or less pubescent, especially at the nodes. 

 Lab. to Alaska and Siberia. 



10. Alsine crassifolia Ehrh. Fleshy Stitchwort. (I. F. f. 1481.) Diffuse 

 or ascending, weak, slender, simple or branched, glabrous, 5-25 cm. long. Leaves 

 somewhat fleshy, oblong-lanceolate to linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, narrowed at 

 the base, 6-16 mm. long. 2-5 mm. wide; cynics terminal, few-flowered, or flowers 

 axillary and solitary; bracts foliaceous, small; peduncles slender, ascending; flowers 

 46 mm. broad; sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute; petals longer than the calyx; cap- 

 sule ovoid, longer than the sepals; seeds rough. In springs and moist places, Lab. 

 to N. II.. Minn.. 111. and Manitoba, and in arctic America, south in the Rocky Mts. 

 to Colo. Also in northern Europe and Asia. Summer. 



11. Alsine borealis (Bigel.) Britton. Northern Stitchwort. (I. F. f. 1482.) 

 Erect or ascending, weak, much branched, glabrous, or pubescent above. 1.5-4.5 dm. 

 long. Leaves membranous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 1-4 cm. long, 4-10 mm. 

 wide, acute, sessile, tlnir margins ciliate or naked : inflorescence a leafly terminal 

 compound cyme; pedicels slender, ascending or spreading; flowers 4-8 mm. broad; 

 sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute; petals 2-5. shorter than the sepals, or none; capsule 

 oblong, much exceeding the sepals; seeds smooth. In wet places. Lab. to R. I., 

 northern N.J., Minn, and Br. Col., south in the Rocky Mts. to Colo. Also in north- 

 ern Europe and Asia. Summer. 



