. 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. 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 hilu
. 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. 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 hemispher in North America. Type species : Moehringia muscosa L. Leaves oblong or oval, usually obtuse ; sepals obtuse Leaves lanceolate, usually acute; sepals act Only the folic acute, shorter than known to occu the petals. I. M. lateriflora. longer than the petals. 2. U. macrophylla. Moehringia lateriflora ( L.) Fenzl. Blunt-leaved Moehringia or Sandwort. Fig. 1791. Arenaria lateriflora L. Sp. PI. 4^3- i"53- Moehringia lateriflora Fenzl, Verbr. Alsin. table, p. 18. 1833. Stems erect or ascending, simple or at length sparingly branched, finely pubescent throughout, 4-12' high. Leaves thin, oval or oblong, i'-i' long, obtuse, spreading, the mai"- gins and nerves ciliate; cymes lateral and terminal, few- flowered or flowers sometimes solitary; flowers 3"-4" broad, their parts in 4's or s's; sepals oblong, obtuse or acute, half as long as the nearly entire petals; ovary at first 3-cclled; capsule ovoid, nearly twice as long as the calyx, dehiscent by 3 2-cleft valves. In moist places and on shores, southern New York and New Jersey to Missouri, north to Newfoundland and Alaska, extend- ing south in the Rocky Mountains to Xew Mexico. Also in Oregon and British Columbia and in northern Europe and Asia. Sho'wy-sandwort. Pl
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