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; 2nd ed. . the emargi-nate petals and equalling the pod; seeds rough. In open, dry places. Kentucky to Illinois. Minnesota,Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee and , April-May. Genus 5. CHICKWEED FAMILY. 57 14. Arenaria groenlandica (Retz) Sandwort or Starwort. Fig. 1790. SicUaria groenlandica Retz, Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 107. groenlandica Spreng. Syst. 2: 4
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; 2nd ed. . the emargi-nate petals and equalling the pod; seeds rough. In open, dry places. Kentucky to Illinois. Minnesota,Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee and , April-May. Genus 5. CHICKWEED FAMILY. 57 14. Arenaria groenlandica (Retz) Sandwort or Starwort. Fig. 1790. SicUaria groenlandica Retz, Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 107. groenlandica Spreng. Syst. 2: 402. 1825. Perennial from a slender rootstock, denselytufted, glabrous, flowering stems slender, 2-$ high;leaves linear-filiform, the upper distant, the lowermatted, 3-6 long; cyme terminal, several-flowered;pedicels 2-6 long, filiform; flowers 4-6 broad;sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious-margined, nerveless;half the length of the entire or refuse petals andshorter than the oblong pod; seeds compressed,smooth. On dry rocks, Labrador and Greenland to northernNew York Connecticut, the mountains of southern NewYork and Pennsylvania, and on the higher Alleghanies ofVirginia and North Carolina. Flowers rarely 6. MOEHRINGIA L. Sp. PI. 359. 1753. Low herbs, our species perennial, with oblong ovate ovate-lanceolate or linear softleaves, sessile or very short-pctioled, and small white flowers solitary in the axils or in termi-nal cymes. Sepals and petals 4 or 5. Stamens 8 or 10. Capsule oblong or ellipsoid, few-seeded. Seeds mostly smooth and shining, appendaged at the hilum by a membranousbroad strophiole. [In honor of P. H. G. Moehring, naturalist of Danzig.] About 20 species, natives of the northern hemisphere. Only the following are known to occurin North America. Type species : Moehringia muscosa L. Leaves oblong or oval, usually obtuse; sepals obtuse or acute, shorter than the petals. I. M. lanceolate, usually acute ; sepals acuminate, longer t
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