. 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. Botany. Cerastium veliitinum Raf. Barren Chick- weed. Fig. 1769. C. veliitinum Raf. Med. Rep. C. oblongifoHum Torr. Fl. U. C. arvense viUosum Holl. & 1887. C. arve II. 5: 359. 1808. S. 460. 1824. 3ritt. Bull. Torr. Club 14: OblongifoHum Holl. & Britt. loc. clt. 47. 1887. Perennial, tufted, erect or diffuse, pubescent or vil- lous; flowering stems 12' high or less. Lea
. 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. Botany. Cerastium veliitinum Raf. Barren Chick- weed. Fig. 1769. C. veliitinum Raf. Med. Rep. C. oblongifoHum Torr. Fl. U. C. arvense viUosum Holl. & 1887. C. arve II. 5: 359. 1808. S. 460. 1824. 3ritt. Bull. Torr. Club 14: OblongifoHum Holl. & Britt. loc. clt. 47. 1887. Perennial, tufted, erect or diffuse, pubescent or vil- lous; flowering stems 12' high or less. Leaves lanceo- late to oblong or ovate-lanceolate, mostly obtuse, i*' long or less, 2"-5" wide, those of the flowering stems distant; flowers several, cymose, 7"-io" wide; petals obcordate, much longer than the sepals; pod i2"-i5" long, about twice as long as the sepals. On serpentine and limestone rocks, Ne%v York to Mary- land, southern Ontar: July. and Colo May- 8. Cerastium alpinum L. Alpine Chickweed. Fig. 1770. Cerastium alpinum L. Sp. PI. 438. 1753- Cerastium Fischerianum Ser. in DC. Prodr. Cerastium alpinum Fischerianu & G. Fl. N. A. 1838 Perennial, generally silky-hair)% sterile stems prostrate, flowering stems erect, 2-12' high. Lower leaves somewhat oblanceolate or spatulate, dense, 2"-4" long, obtuse; upper leaves distant, ovate-oblong, obtusish, 4"-8" long; flowers solitary or 2-3. 6"-<)" broad; pedicels slender; petals 2-lobed, twice the length of the lanceolate acute scarious-tipped sepals; pod longer than the calyx, nearly straight. In moist, rocky places Gaspe. Quebec : Greenland, Labrador and in arctic America to Alaska. Also in arctic and alpine Europe and Asia. Consists of numerous races, differing in size of the plant, size of the flowers, character and amount of pubescence. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for r
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