. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Perennial by a woody root, pale green, glandu- lar-pubescent above; stems tufted, erect, very slender, usually several times forked, 4-15' tall, the internodes l'-2' long. Lower leaves subulate or setaceous, glabrous or minutely ciliate. 1-4' long, about i" wide, the upper gradually smaller and somewhat connate at the base; cyme loose, its forks filiform, several-flower
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Perennial by a woody root, pale green, glandu- lar-pubescent above; stems tufted, erect, very slender, usually several times forked, 4-15' tall, the internodes l'-2' long. Lower leaves subulate or setaceous, glabrous or minutely ciliate. 1-4' long, about i" wide, the upper gradually smaller and somewhat connate at the base; cyme loose, its forks filiform, several-flowered; pedicels very glandular, 3"-i2" long; flowers 4"-6" broad; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious- niargined, nearly as long as the obovate petals; capsule narrowly oblong, rather shorter than the sepals, 3-valved, the valves 2-toothed. In dry, usually rock to Utah, south to Xe\ Aug. 6. Arenaria arctica Stev. Arctic Sandwort. Fig. Arenaria arctica Stev.; DC. Prodr. i: 404. 1824. Perennial, stem woody below, tufted, glandular-pubescent, 1-2' high. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, sessile and sheath- ing, densely imbricated, somewhat broadest at the base, 3"-4" long, semiterete, obtuse, glabrous, ciHate or glandular-pubescent, generally falcate, strongly keeled by the midvein; peduncles slender, terminal, 1-2-flowered; flowers 5"-8" broad; sepals linear-oblong, 3-ncrved, obtusish; petals obovate, twice as long as the ; capsule slightly longer than the sepals; seeds smooth. Greenland and Labrador to Quebec, west through Arctic .America to Alaska, souih in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona. Also in Asia. Summer. Described in our first edition as Arenaria bifldra (L.) S. Wats.
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