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. . 54 ALSINACEAE. Vol. II. 5. Arenaria Fendleri A. Gray. Fendlers Sandwort. Fig. 1781. ./. Fendleri A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. (II.) 4: Perennial by a woody root, pale green, glandu-lar-pubescent above; stems tufted, erect, veryslender, usually several times forked, 4-1.; tall,the internodes 1-2 long. Lower leaves subulateor setaceous, glabrous or minutely ciliate.
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. . 54 ALSINACEAE. Vol. II. 5. Arenaria Fendleri A. Gray. Fendlers Sandwort. Fig. 1781. ./. Fendleri A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. (II.) 4: Perennial by a woody root, pale green, glandu-lar-pubescent above; stems tufted, erect, veryslender, usually several times forked, 4-1.; tall,the internodes 1-2 long. Lower leaves subulateor setaceous, glabrous or minutely ciliate. i-4long, about i wide, the upper gradually smallerand somewhat connate at the base; cyme loose,its forks filiform, several-flowered; pedicels veryglandular, 3-i2 long; flowers 4-6 broad;sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious-niargined, nearly as long as the obovate petals;capsule narrowly oblong, rather shorter than thesepals, 3-vaIved, the valves 2-toothed. In dry, usually rocky soil Nebraska and Wyomingto Utah, south to New Mexico and Arizona. 6. Arenaria arctica Stcv. Arctic Sandwort. Fig. 1782. Arenaria arcliea Stev.; DC. Prodr. i: 404. 1824. Perennial, stem woody below, tufted, glandular-pubescent,1-2 high. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, sessile and sheath-ing, densely imbricated, somewhat broadest at the base, i-A,long, semiterete, obtuse, glabrous, ciliate or glandular-pubescent,generally falcate, strongly keeled by the niidvein; pedunclesslender, terminal, 1-2-flowered; flowers 5-S broad; sepalslinear-oblong, 3-nerved, obtusish; petals obovate, twice as longas the calyx; capsule slightly longer than the sepals; seeds smooth. Greenland and Labrador to Quebec, west through Arctic Americato Alaska, south in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona. Also in Described in our first edition as Arenaria bifldra (L.)S. Wats.
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