. 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. 9. Arenaria caroliniana Walt. Pine- barren Sandwort. Fig. 1785. Arenaria caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 141. 1788. Arenaria squarrosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 273. 1803. Perennial from a deep root, tufted, more or less glandular-pubescent, base woody, flowering stems ascending or erect, 4-10' high, nearly simple up to the cymose inflorescence. Lower leaves subulate,
. 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. 9. Arenaria caroliniana Walt. Pine- barren Sandwort. Fig. 1785. Arenaria caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 141. 1788. Arenaria squarrosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 273. 1803. Perennial from a deep root, tufted, more or less glandular-pubescent, base woody, flowering stems ascending or erect, 4-10' high, nearly simple up to the cymose inflorescence. Lower leaves subulate, rigid, 2"-3" long, channeled on the inner surface, keeled by the prominent mid- rib, densely imbricated; upper leaves similar, distant; cymes terminal, few-flowered; pedicels ascending or erect; flowers ^"-8" broad; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless; petals oblanceo- late, 3-4 times as long as the calyx; pod short- ovoid, twice as long as the calyx, 3-valved; seeds very nearly smooth. In dry sand, southeastern New York, pine barrens of New Jersey, south near the coast to Florida and Georgia. May-July. 10. Arenaria stricta Michx. Rock Sandwort. Fig. 1786. Arenaria stricta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 274. 1803. Alsine Michauxii Fenzl, Verbr. Alsin. table, p. 18, 1833. Arenaria Michauxii Hook. f. Trans. Linn. Soc- 23 : 287. 1867. Perennial from a short root, tufted, slender, erect or ascending, glabrous, bark green, 6'-i6' high, simple or nearly so to the diffuse cymose bracted inflorescence. Leaves slender, rigid, subulate or filiform, broadest at the sessile base, 4"-io" long, distinctly i-ribbed, spread- ing, with numerous others fascicled in the axils; pedicels 3"-i8" long; flowers 4"-s" broad; calyx ovoid-oblong in fruit; sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3-ribbed, 2" long, about half the length of the petals and slightly shorter than the ovoid pod; seeds minutely rugose. In dry rocky places, especially lime
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