. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. Moehringia macrophylla (Hook.) Torr. Large-leaved Moehringia or Sandwort. Fig. 1792. Arenaria macrophylla Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 102. pi. 37. 1830. Moehringia macrophylla Torr. Bot. Wilkes' Exp. 246. 1874- Stems decumbent, puberulent, usually branched, 6'- 15'long. Leaves lanceolate, acute or acuminate (rarely obtusish) at the apex, narrowed at the base, 1-3
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. Moehringia macrophylla (Hook.) Torr. Large-leaved Moehringia or Sandwort. Fig. 1792. Arenaria macrophylla Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 102. pi. 37. 1830. Moehringia macrophylla Torr. Bot. Wilkes' Exp. 246. 1874- Stems decumbent, puberulent, usually branched, 6'- 15'long. Leaves lanceolate, acute or acuminate (rarely obtusish) at the apex, narrowed at the base, 1-3' long, 2"-5" wide; cymes terminal or becoming axillary by the elongation of the stem, 1-5-flowered; flowers about 3" broad; sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long- acuminate, longer than the small petals; capsule rather shorter than the calyx, 3-valved, the valves 2-cleft. .Ml)] On shores and banks, Labrador to Connecticut, Lake W Superior, Idaho and British Columbia, south to Califor- nia. May-Aug. 7. HONKENYA Ehrh. Beitr. 2: 180. 1788. [Ammodenia J. G. Gmel. FI. Sib. 4: 160. Hyponym. 1769.] Perennial fieshy maritime herbs, with ovate obovate oblong or oblanceolate leaves, and rather small flowers, solitary in the axils and in the forks of the stem or branches. Sepals S (rarely 4). Petals the same number, entire. Stamens 8 or 10. Disk prominent, 8-io-lobed, glandular. Styles 3-5. Capsule subglobose, fleshy, 3-5-valved when mature, the valve entire. Seeds numerous, obovate, not strophiolate. [In honor of Gerhart August Honckeny, German botanist, 1724-1805.] Two species, the following of sea beaches throughout the north temperate zone, the other of the coasts of northwestern America and northeastern Asia. Type species: Honkenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. I. Honkenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. Sea-beach Sandwort Arenaria peploides L. Sp. PI. 423. 1753, Honkenya peploides Ehrh. Beitr. 2; 181. 1788. Ammodenia peploides Rupr. Beitr. Pfl. Russ. Reich. 2: ^25. 1845. Perennial
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