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 ALSINACEAE. Petals shorter than the calyx ; lower leaves petioled. Petals longer than the calyx, or as long; lower leaves rarely petioled. Petals longer than the blunt sepals. Petals as long as the acute or acuminate sepals. Leaves narrow, linear, oblong, oblanceolate or spatulate. Flowers 7'-io' broad. Leaves lance
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 ALSINACEAE. Petals shorter than the calyx ; lower leaves petioled. Petals longer than the calyx, or as long; lower leaves rarely petioled. Petals longer than the blunt sepals. Petals as long as the acute or acuminate sepals. Leaves narrow, linear, oblong, oblanceolate or spatulate. Flowers 7'-io' broad. Leaves lanceolate, ciliate. Leaves linear, glabrous. Flowers only 2'-6' broad. Bracts of the cyme small, scarious. Pedicels widely spreading ; cyme diffuse. Leaves linear, acute at each end; seeds smooth. Leaves lanceolate, broadest below; seeds rough. Pedicels erect; flowers few or solitary. Bracts of the cyme foliaceous, resembling the upper leaves. Capsule iVz-z times as long as the calyx; leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. Seeds rough; petals equalling or longer than the calyx. 12. A. crassifolia Seeds smooth; petals much shorter than the calyx or none. 13. Capsule not longer than the calyx; leaves linear or linear-spatulate; petals none. 14. , 7. A. Holostea. A. longifolia. A, gram inea. A, longipes. Alsine aquatica (L.) Britton. Water JMouse-ear Chickweed. Fig. 1749. Cerastiuin aqiial StcUaria aquatic Alsivc aquatica ' cum L. Sp. PI. 439. I753. 1 Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, i: 319. 1772, iritton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 356. 1894. Perennial, stem angled, mostly glandular-pubescent above, nearly glabrous below, ascending or decum- bent, branched, i°-2i° long. Leaves ovate or ovate- lanceolate, acute at the , the upper sessile and subcordate, the lower petioled, rounded at the base, i'- 2' long; flowers about i' broad, solitary in the forks of the stem and in terminal cymes; pedicels slender, glandular, deflexed and much longer than the calyx in fruit; caly
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