. 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. 14. Alsine fontinalis (Short & Peter) Britton. Water Stitchwort. Fig. 1762. Sagina fontinalis Short & Peter, Transylv. Journ. Med. 7 : 600. 1834. Stellaria fontinalis Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 29 : 286. 1894. Alsine fontinalis Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 356. 1894. Annual, glabrous, stems weak, very slender, branched, ascending or diflfuse, 4-12' long.
. 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. 14. Alsine fontinalis (Short & Peter) Britton. Water Stitchwort. Fig. 1762. Sagina fontinalis Short & Peter, Transylv. Journ. Med. 7 : 600. 1834. Stellaria fontinalis Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 29 : 286. 1894. Alsine fontinalis Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 356. 1894. Annual, glabrous, stems weak, very slender, branched, ascending or diflfuse, 4-12' long. Leaves linear-spatulate, 4"-i2" long, about i" wide, the upper sessile, acute or subacute at the apex, the lower obtuse and narrowed into short petioles; pedi- cels filiform, 3"-lS" long, erect or ascending, soli- tary or 2-3 together in the forks of the- stem and branches and axils; calyx oblong-campanulate, i" long; sepals 4 or 5, oblong or linear, obtuse, about equalling the ovoid-oblong obtuse capsule; stamens 4-8; petals wanting; styles very short; seeds densely tuberculate-roughened. In wet places, Kentucky and Tennessee. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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