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 CIIICKWEED FAMILY. 14. Arenaria groenlandica (^Retz) Sprcng. Mountain Sandwort or Starwort. Fig. 1790. Slellaria groenlandica Retz, Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 107. 179; Arenaria groenlandica Spreng. Syst. 2: 402. 1825. Perennial from a slender rootstock, densely tufted, glabrous, flowering stems slender, 2-5' high; leaves li
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 CIIICKWEED FAMILY. 14. Arenaria groenlandica (^Retz) Sprcng. Mountain Sandwort or Starwort. Fig. 1790. Slellaria groenlandica Retz, Fl. Scand. Ed. 2, 107. 179; Arenaria groenlandica Spreng. Syst. 2: 402. 1825. Perennial from a slender rootstock, densely tufted, glabrous, flowering stems slender, 2-5' high; leaves linear-iiliform, the upper distant, the lower matted, 3'-6' long; cyme terminal, several-flowered; pedicels 2'-6' long, filiform; flowers 4'-6' broad; sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious-margined, nerveless; half the length of the entire or retuse petals and shorter than the oblong pod; seeds compressed, smooth. On dry rocks, Labrador and Greenland to northern Xew York Connecticut, the mountains of southern New York and Pennsylvania, and on the higher .â Mleghanies of Virginia and North Carolina. Flowers rarely apetalous. June-Sept. 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
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