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 GENL-i CHICKWEED FAMILY. 4. SAGINA L. Sp. PI. 128. 1753. Tufted matted low annual or perennial herbs, with subulate leaves, and small pedicelled whitish flowers. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals of the same number, entire, emarginate or none. Stamens of the same number, or fewer, or twice as many. Ovary i-celled, many-ovuled.
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 GENL-i CHICKWEED FAMILY. 4. SAGINA L. Sp. PI. 128. 1753. Tufted matted low annual or perennial herbs, with subulate leaves, and small pedicelled whitish flowers. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals of the same number, entire, emarginate or none. Stamens of the same number, or fewer, or twice as many. Ovary i-celled, many-ovuled. Styles as many as the sepals and alternate with them. Capsule 4-s-valved, at length dehis- cent to the base, the valves opposite the sepals. [Ancient name of the spurry.] About 10 species, natives of the northern hemisphere. Type species: Sagina procumbens h. I. S. procumbens. 2. -S. decumbeiis. 3. S. saginoides. 4. 5'. nodosa. Parts of the flower in 4's (or some flowers in s's) ; seeds not resinous-dotted. Parts of the flower in 5's. rarely some in 4's. Leaves opposite, not fascicled. Petals equalling or shorter than the sepals ; seeds resinous-dotted. Petals and pods longer than the sepals. Leaves fascicled in the axils ; petals exceeding the sepals. I. Sagina procumbens L. Procumbent Pearlwort. Fig- 1773- Sagina procumbens L. Sp. PI. 128. 1753. Annual or perennial, branching, decumbent, depressed or spreading, glabrous or minutely downy, matted, l'-3' high. Leaves linear, subulate, l'-3' long, connate at the base; flowers about l' broad, numerous; peduncles capillary, longer than the leaves, often recurved at the end after flow-er- ing; sepals 4. sometimes S, ovate-oblong, obtusish. generally longer than the petals, which are occasionally wanting; stamens 4, rarely 5; capsule about equalling the calyx; seeds dark brown, not resinous-dotted. In moist places, Xewfoundland and Greenland to Delaware and Michigan. Native of Europe and Asia. _ Our plant is probably in part natural
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