. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 8. CHICKWEED FAMILY. 59 Corn Spurry. Pine-cheat. I. Spergula arvensis L. Spurry. Poverty-weed Fig. 1794. Spergula arvensis L. Sp. PI. 440. 1753. Slender, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, branch- ing at or near the base, erect or ascending, 6'-i8' high. Leaves narrowly linear or subulate, i'-2' long, clustered at the nodes in two opposite sets of 6-8 toget
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 8. CHICKWEED FAMILY. 59 Corn Spurry. Pine-cheat. I. Spergula arvensis L. Spurry. Poverty-weed Fig. 1794. Spergula arvensis L. Sp. PI. 440. 1753. Slender, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, branch- ing at or near the base, erect or ascending, 6'-i8' high. Leaves narrowly linear or subulate, i'-2' long, clustered at the nodes in two opposite sets of 6-8 together, appearing verticillate; stipules small, connate; flowers 2"-^" broad, numerous in loose terminal cymes; pedicels slender, divaricate; sepals ovate, l4"-2" long, slightly longer than the petals; stamens 10 or 5 in flowers on the same plant; cap- sule ovoid, longer than the calyx; seeds papillose. In fields and waste places, frequent as a weed through- out eastern Canada and the Eastern and Middle States, south to South Carolina, west to California. Adventive or naturalized from Europe. Sandweed. Pick-purse. Yarr. Cow-quake. Summer. Spergula sativa Boenn, which differs in being viscid, and with dotted but not papillose seeds, has been col- lected in New England and in Ontario. Native of Europe. 9. TISSA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 507. 1763. [BuDA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 507. 1763.] [Spergularia Pers. Syn. i: 504. 1805.] Low annual or perennial herbs, mostly with fleshy linear or setaceous leaves, often with others clustered in the axils, and small pink or whitish flowers in terminal racemose bracted or leafy cymes. Stipules scarious. Sepals 5. Petals the same number, rarely fewer, or none, entire. Stamens 2^10. Ovary i-celled, many ovuled; styles 3. Pod 3-valved to thebase. Seeds reniform-globose or compressed, smooth, winged or tuberculate. [Name unexplained.] About 20 species, of wide geographic distribution, most of them inhabitants of saline shores or salt marshes
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