. 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. 54 ALSINACEAE. Vol. II. 5. Arenaria Fendleri A. Gray. Fendler's Sandwort. Fig. A. Fendleri A. Gray, 1849. Mem. Am. Acad. (II.) 4: 13- Perennial by a woody root, pale green, glandu- lar-pubescent above; stems tufted, erect, very slender, usually several times forked, 4'-is' tall, the internodes I'-z' long. Lower leaves subulate or setaceous, glabrous or m
. 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. 54 ALSINACEAE. Vol. II. 5. Arenaria Fendleri A. Gray. Fendler's Sandwort. Fig. A. Fendleri A. Gray, 1849. Mem. Am. Acad. (II.) 4: 13- Perennial by a woody root, pale green, glandu- lar-pubescent above; stems tufted, erect, very slender, usually several times forked, 4'-is' tall, the internodes I'-z' long. Lower leaves subulate or setaceous, glabrous or minutely ciliate. i'-4' long, about i" wide, the upper gradually smaller and somewhat connate at the base; cyme loose, its forks filiform, several-flowered; pedicels very glandular, 3"-i2" long; flowers 4"-6" broad; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious- margined, nearly as long as the obovate petals; capsule narrowly oblong, rather shorter than the sepals, 3-valved, the valves 2-toothed. In dry, usually rocky soil Nebraska and Wyoming to Utah, south to New Mexico and Arizona. June- Aug. 6. Arenaria arctica Stev. Arctic Sandwort. Fig. 1782. Arenaria arclica Stev.; DC. Prodr. i: 404. 1824. Perennial, stem woody below, tufted, glandular-pubescent, l'-2' high. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, sessile and sheath- ing, densely imbricated, somewhat broadest at the base, 3"-4" long, semiterete, obtuse, glabrous, cihate or glandular-pubescent, generally falcate, strongly keeled by the midvein; peduncles slender, terminal, 1-2-flowered; flowers s"-8" broad; sepals linear-oblong, 3-nerved, obtusish; petals obovate, twice as long as the calyx; capsule slightly longer than the sepals ; seeds smooth. Greenland and Lal^rador to Quebec, west through Arctic America to Alaska, south in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona. Also in Asia. Summer. Described in our first edition as Arenaria bifldra (L.) S. Please note that these images are ext
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