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. 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. ALSINACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Tissa canadensis (Pers.) Britton. North- ern Sand Spurry. Fig. 1796. Arenaria canadensis Pers. Syn. i : 504. 1805. Tissa salina Britton Bull. Torr. Club 16: 127. 1889. Not Spergularia salina Presl. Bxtda borealis S. Wats, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 90. 1890. Tissa canadensis Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 152. 1894. Annual, slender, diffuse an
. 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. ALSINACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Tissa canadensis (Pers.) Britton. North- ern Sand Spurry. Fig. 1796. Arenaria canadensis Pers. Syn. i : 504. 1805. Tissa salina Britton Bull. Torr. Club 16: 127. 1889. Not Spergularia salina Presl. Bxtda borealis S. Wats, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 90. 1890. Tissa canadensis Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 152. 1894. Annual, slender, diffuse and spreading, entirely glabrous, 2'-$' high. Leaves linear, fleshy, teretish, 5"-8" long, mainly obtuse, generally simply opposite and not fascicled; stipules broadly ovate; pedicels slender, spreading, 3"-6" long, at length much ex- ceeding the calyx; sepals i" long; flowers pale or white; capsule twice the length of the calyx; seeds smooth or papillose, usually wingless. On muddy shores, Labrador to Rhode Island. Bed- sandwort. Summer. 3. Tissa rubra (L.) Britton. Sand Spurry. Purple Sandwort. Fig. 1797. Arenaria rubra L. Sp. PI. 423. 1753. Buda rubra Dumort. FI. Belg. no. 1827. Spergularia rubra Presl, Fl. Cech. 93. 1819. Tissa rubra Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 16; 127. 1889. Annual or biennial, depressed or ascending, very leafy up to the inflorescence, glabrous or sparingly glandular- pubescent above, 2'-6' high, often forming dense little mats. Leaves linear, flat, scarcely fleshy, 2"-/^" long; flowers bright pink, i"-i J "broad; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acutish; pedicels slen- der, spreading, 2"-^" long; pods about equalling the calyx; seeds wingless, rough with projecting points. In waste places and along roadsides, or sometimes maritime. Nova Scotia to Pennsylvania, western New York, Ohio and Virginia. Apparently adventive from Europe in large part, but perhaps indigenous northwar
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