. 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. 4. Alsine media L. Common Chickweed. Satin-flower. Tongue-grass. Fig. 1752. Alsine media L. Sp. PI. 272. 1753. Stellaria media Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 3: 615. 1789. Annual, weak, tufted, much branched, decum- bent or ascending, 4'-i6' long, glabrous except a line of hairs along the stem and branches, the pubescent sepals and the sometimes ciliate peti- oles. Lea
. 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. 4. Alsine media L. Common Chickweed. Satin-flower. Tongue-grass. Fig. 1752. Alsine media L. Sp. PI. 272. 1753. Stellaria media Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 3: 615. 1789. Annual, weak, tufted, much branched, decum- bent or ascending, 4'-i6' long, glabrous except a line of hairs along the stem and branches, the pubescent sepals and the sometimes ciliate peti- oles. Leaves ovate or oval, 2"-ii' long, acute or rarely obtuse, the lower petioled and often cordate, the upper sessile; flowers 2"-4" broad, in terminal leafy cymes or also solitary in the axils; pedicels slender; sepals oblong, mostly acute, longer than the 2-parted petals; stamens 2-10; capsule ovoid, longer than the calyx; seeds rough, sometimes crested. In waste places, meadows and woods, nearly throughout North America. Naturalized from Eu- rope, though possibly native northward. Native also of Asia and now almost universally distributed as a weed. White bird's-eye. Chicken- or winter-weed. 5. Alsine pubera (Michx.) Britton. Great or Star Chickweed. Fig. 1753. Stellaria pubera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 273. 1803. Alsine pubera Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 150. 1894. Perennial, erect or decumbent, 4'-i2' high, branch- ing, the stems and branches with two finely hairy lines. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, i'-2i' long, acute or obtuse, their margins more or less ciliate, the upper generally sessile, the lower sometimes narrowed at the base or on broad petioles, those of sterile shoots sometimes all petioled; flowers 4"-6" broad, in terminal leafy cymes; pedicels rather stout, more or less pubescent; sepals ovate to lan- ceolate, blunt or acutish, often scarious-margined, shorter than the 2-cleft or 2-parted petals; capsule subglobose or ovoid, its tee
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