. 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. Genus 5. CHICKWEED FAMILY. 57 14. Arenaria groenlandica (Retz) Spreng. Mountain Sandwort or Starwort. Fig. 1790. Stellaria groenlandica Retz, Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 107. 1795. Arenaria groenlandica Spreng. Syst. 2: 402. 1825. Perennial from a slender rootstock, densely tufted, glabrous, flowering stems slender, 2'-$' high; leaves linear-filiform, the upper distant,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 5. CHICKWEED FAMILY. 57 14. Arenaria groenlandica (Retz) Spreng. Mountain Sandwort or Starwort. Fig. 1790. Stellaria groenlandica Retz, Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 107. 1795. Arenaria groenlandica Spreng. Syst. 2: 402. 1825. Perennial from a slender rootstock, densely tufted, glabrous, flowering stems slender, 2'-$' high; leaves linear-filiform, the upper distant, the lower matted, 3"-6" long; cyme terminal, several-flowered; pedicels 2"-6" long, filiform; flowers 4"-6" broad; sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious-margined, nerveless; half the length of the entire or refuse petals and shorter than the oblong pod; seeds compressed, smooth. On dry rocks, Labrador and Greenland to northern New York Connecticut, the mountains of southern New York and Pennsylvania, and on the higher Alleghanies of Virginia and North Carolina. Flowers rarely apetalous. 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 hemisphere. Only the following are known to occur in North America. Type species : Moehringia muscosa L. Leaves oblong or oval, usually obtuse ; sepals obtuse or acute, shorter than the petals. I. M. lateriflora. Leaves lanceolate, usually acute; sepals acuminate, longer than the petals. 2. M. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pag
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