. 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 . 9. Arenaria caroliniana Walt. Pine- barren Sandwort. Fig. 1785. Arenaria caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 141. 1788. Arenaria squai rosa FI. Bor. Am. I : 273. 1803. Perennial from a deep root, tufted, more or less glandular-pubescent, base woody, flowering stems ascending or erect, 4-10' high, nearly simple up to the cymose inflorescence. Lower leaves subulate, rigid, 2&qu
. 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 . 9. Arenaria caroliniana Walt. Pine- barren Sandwort. Fig. 1785. Arenaria caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 141. 1788. Arenaria squai rosa FI. Bor. Am. I : 273. 1803. Perennial from a deep root, tufted, more or less glandular-pubescent, base woody, flowering stems ascending or erect, 4-10' high, nearly simple up to the cymose inflorescence. Lower leaves subulate, rigid, 2"-3" long, channeled on the inner surface, keeled by the prominent mid- rib, densely imbricated; upper leaves similar, distant; cymes terminal, few-flowered; pedicels ascending or erect; flowers S"-8" broad; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless; petals oblanceo- late, 3-4 times as long as the calyx; pod short- ovoid, twice as long as the calyx, 3-valved; seeds very nearly smooth. In dry sand, southeastern New York, pine barrens of New Jersey, south near the coast to Florida and Georgia. May-July. 10. Arenaria stricta ^lichx. Rock Sandwort. Fig. 1786. Arenaria stricta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I : 274. 1803. Alsine Michauxii Fenzl, Verbr. Alsin. table, p. 18. 1833- Arenaria Michauxii Hook. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. 23: 287. 1867. Perennial from a short root, tufted, slender erect or ascending, glabrous, bark green, 6'-l6' high, simple or nearly so to the diffuse cymose bracted inflorescence. Leaves slender, rigid, subulate or filiform, broadest at the sessile base, 4"-lo" long, distinctly l-ribbed, spread- ing, with numerous others fascicled in the axils; pedicels 3"-i8" long; flowers 4"-5" broad; calyx ovoid-oblong in fruit; sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3-ribbed, 2" long, about half the length of the petals and slightly shorter than the ovoid pod; seeds minutely rugose. In dry rocky places, especially limestone bluffs,
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