. 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. Botany. Slcllaiia cerastioides L. Sp. PI. 422. 1-53. Ceraslium Irigyiuim Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 3: 645. 1789. C. cerastioides Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 150. 1894. Perennial, glabrous except a line of minute hairs along one side of the stem and branches, rarely pubescent throughout. Flowering branches ascend- ing, 3'-6' long; leaves linear-oblong, 4"-8" long, about
. 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. Botany. Slcllaiia cerastioides L. Sp. PI. 422. 1-53. Ceraslium Irigyiuim Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 3: 645. 1789. C. cerastioides Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 150. 1894. Perennial, glabrous except a line of minute hairs along one side of the stem and branches, rarely pubescent throughout. Flowering branches ascend- ing, 3'-6' long; leaves linear-oblong, 4"-8" long, about i" wide, obtuse, the lower often smaller and slightly narrowed at the base; flowers solitary or few, 5"-6" broad, long-pedicelled; petals 2-lobed, mostly twice as long as the obtuse or acutish scarious- margined sepals; capsule nearly straight, twice the length of the calyx; styles 3, rarely 4 or 5; sepals and petals 5 or 4. Gaspe, Quel^ec, and in a and alpine Europe and As 3. HOLOSTEUM [Dill.] L. Sp. PI. 88. 1753. Annual erect herbs, often viscid-pubescent above, with cymose-umbellate, white flowers on long terminal peduncles. Sepals 5. Petals 5, emarginate or eroded. Stamens 3-5, hypogynous. Styles 3. Ovary i-celled, many-ovuled. Capsule ovoid-cylindrical, dehiscent by 6 short valves or teeth. Seeds compressed, attached by the inner face, rough. [Greek, signifying all bone, an antiphrase, the herbs being tender.] About 3 species, jf Europe and temperate Asia, folic typical. Holosteum umbellatum L. Jagged Chickweed. Glabrous or slightly downy below, viscid and glandular-pubescent above, simple, tufted, s'-l2' high. Basal leaves spreading, oblanceolate or ob- long; stem-leaves oblong, acute or obtuse, sessile, ¥-1' long; umbel terminal, 3-8-flowered; pedicels very slender, about i' long, erect or ascending in flower, subsequently and again erect when the fruit is mature; flowers white, 2"-^" broad; sepals obtuse, about 2" long, scarious
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