G'ARYOPHYLLACE^E. 



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with old leaves ; the flowering stems 

 erect or decumbent, 2 to 4 inches high, 

 and branched. Leaves subulate, rather 

 stiff, the upper ones short and broader. 

 Flowers in rather loose forked cymes, the 

 pedicels usually slightly downy, and 

 seldom above 3 or 4 lines long. Sepals 

 1J to near 2 lines long, pointed, with 3 

 very prominent nerves. Petals obovate, 

 spreading beyond the points of the sepals. 

 Capsule 3-valved. 



In stony mountain pastures, almost 

 all over the continent of Europe and 

 [Russian Asia and in North America. 

 Much less frequent in Britain, and 

 chiefly in Scotland, northern England, 

 Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland. Fl. spring 

 and summer. A high northern and 

 Arctic varety, extending to the higher 

 mountains of Scotland, has been distin- 

 guished under the name of A. rubella 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2638). It is more stunted, with shorter and rather 

 broader leaves, few flowers, smaller and narrower petals, and some- 

 times 4 or even 5 styles and capsular valves. 



Fig. 148. 



2. Bog Sandwort. Arenaria uliginosa, Schleich. (Fig. 149.) 

 (Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2890.) 



Perennial tufts like those of the vernal 

 S., but the subulate leaves are rather 

 thicker, almost succulent, the stems 

 longer, with very few distant pairs of 

 leaves, the pedicels much longer, often 

 an inch or even more, and always gla- 

 brous, the sepals broader. Petals about 

 the length of the calyx. Capsule 3- 

 valved. 



In bogs or mountain marshes, in Arctic 

 and northern Europe and Asia, and in 

 some mountainous parts of central Eu- 

 rope, but never common. In Britain, 

 only known on Widdybank Fell, in 

 Durham. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 149. 



