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. . 9. TISSA Adans. Fam. ri. 2: 507. 1763.[BuDA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 507. 1763.][Spergularia Pers. Syn. i: 504. 1805.] Low annual or perennial herbs, mostly with fleshy linear or setaceous leaves, often withothers clustered in the axils, and small pink or whitish in terminal racemose bractedor leafy cymes. Stipules scarious. Sepals 5. Petals the same number, rarely
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. . 9. TISSA Adans. Fam. ri. 2: 507. 1763.[BuDA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 507. 1763.][Spergularia Pers. Syn. i: 504. 1805.] Low annual or perennial herbs, mostly with fleshy linear or setaceous leaves, often withothers clustered in the axils, and small pink or whitish in terminal racemose bractedor leafy cymes. Stipules scarious. Sepals 5. Petals the same number, rarely fewer, or none,entire. Stamens 2-10. Ovary i-celled, many ovuled ; styles 3. Pod 3-valved to the base. Seedsreniform-globose or compressed, smooth, winged or tuberculate. [Name unexplained.] About 20 species, of wide geographic distribution, most of them inhabitants of saline shores orsalt marshes. Type species : Arenaria rubra L. Species of salt marshes or sea beaches : leaves very fleshy. Pedicels i ^-2 times the length of the sepals : flowers pink. i. T. marina. Pedicels 2-4 times the length of the sepals ; flowers pale or white. 2. T. canadensis. Species mostly of dry sandy soil ; leaves scarcely fleshy. 3. 7. I. Tissa marina (L.) Britten. Salt-marsh Sand Spurry. Fig. 1795. Arenaria rubra var. marina L. Sp. PI. 423. salina Presl. Fl. Cech. 95. marina Dumort. Fl. Belg. 110. media A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 95. marina Kritton, Bull. Torr. Club 16: 126. marina var. minor S. Wats, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6,90. 1890. Annual or biennial, erect, ascending or nearly pros-trate, 4-S high, freely branching, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Stipules ovate; leaves linear, terete, veryfleshy, i-ii long, i-i wide, often much fascicled inthe axils; pedicels spreading or ascending, 2-^ long;flowers numerous, pink; sepals ovate, acute or obtuse,i-3 long; capsule a little longer than the calyx; seedssmooth, or roughened with pr
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