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; 2nd ed. . 6. MOEHRINGIA L. Sp. PI. 359. 1753. Low herbs, our species perennial, with oblong ovate ovate-lanceolate or linear softleaves, sessile or very short-pctioled, 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 b
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; 2nd ed. . 6. MOEHRINGIA L. Sp. PI. 359. 1753. Low herbs, our species perennial, with oblong ovate ovate-lanceolate or linear softleaves, sessile or very short-pctioled, 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 membranousbroad strophiole. [In honor of P. H. G. Moehring, naturalist of Danzig.] About 20 species, natives of the northern hemisphere. Only the following are known to occurin North America. Type species : Moehringia muscosa L. Leaves oblong or oval, usually obtuse; sepals obtuse or acute, shorter than the petals. I. M. lanceolate, usually acute ; sepals acuminate, longer than the petals. 2. M. I. Moehringia lateriflora (L.) Fenzl. Blunt-leavedMoehringia or Sandwort. Fig. 1791. Arenaria lateriflora L. Sp. PI. 423. 1753- Moehringia lateriflora Fenzl, Verbr. .\lsin. table, p. 18. 1833. Stems erect or ascending, simple or at length sparinglybranched, finely pubescent throughout. 4-i2 high. Leavesthin, oval or oblong, i-i long, obtuse, spreading, the mar-gins and nerves ciliatc; cymes lateral and terminal, few-flowered or flowers sometimes solitary; flowers 3 -4broad, their parts in 4s or 5s; sepals oblong, obtuse oracute, half as long as the nearly entire petals; ovary atfirst 3-celled; capsule ovoid, nearly twice as long as thecalyx, dehiscent by 3 2-clcft valves. In moist places and on shores, southern New York and NewJersey to Missouri, north to Newfoundland and Alaska, extend-ing south in the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. Also inOregon and British Columbia and in northern Europe and May-July. 5S ALSINACEAE. Vol. II.
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