An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 6. MOEHRINGIA L. Sp. PI. 359. 1753. Low herbs, our species perennial, with oblong ovate ovate-lanceolate or linear soft leaves, sessile or very short-petioled, 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. Se
An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 6. MOEHRINGIA L. Sp. PI. 359. 1753. Low herbs, our species perennial, with oblong ovate ovate-lanceolate or linear soft leaves, sessile or very short-petioled, 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 membranous broad strophiole. [In honor of P. H. G. Moehring, naturalist of Danzig.] About 20 species, natives of the northern hemispher in North America. Type species : Moehringia muscosa L. Leaves oblong or oval, usually obtuse ; sepals obtuse Leaves lanceolate, usually acute; sepals act Only the folic acute, shorter than known to occu the petals. I. M. lateriflora. longer than the petals. 2. U. macrophylla Moehringia lateriflora ( L.) Fenzl. Blunt-leaved Moehringia or Sandwort. Fig. 1791. Arenaria lateriflora L. Sp. PI. 4^3- i'53- Moehringia lateriflora Fenzl, Verbr. Alsin. table, p. 18. 1833. Stems erect or ascending, simple or at length sparingly branched, finely pubescent throughout, 4-12' high. Leaves thin, oval or oblong, i'-i' long, obtuse, spreading, the mai'- gins and nerves ciliate; cymes lateral and terminal, few- flowered or flowers sometimes solitary; flowers 3'-4' broad, their parts in 4's or s's; sepals oblong, obtuse or acute, half as long as the nearly entire petals; ovary at first 3-cclled; capsule ovoid, nearly twice as long as the calyx, dehiscent by 3 2-cleft valves. In moist places and on shores, southern New York and New Jersey to Missouri, north to Newfoundland and Alaska, extend- ing south in the Rocky Mountains to Xew Mexico. Also in Oregon and British Columbia and in northern Europe and As
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