. 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. 12. Arenaria texana (Robinson) Britten. Texas Sandwort. Fig. 1788. Arenaria striata texana Robinson ; Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 152. 1894. Arenaria texana Britton in Britt. & Brown, III. Fl. 2: 34. 1897. Similar to the preceding species but lower, stiffer, pale green, stems erect, 4'-7' tall, simple up to the inflorescence, conspicuously thickened at 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 12. Arenaria texana (Robinson) Britten. Texas Sandwort. Fig. 1788. Arenaria striata texana Robinson ; Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 152. 1894. Arenaria texana Britton in Britt. & Brown, III. Fl. 2: 34. 1897. Similar to the preceding species but lower, stiffer, pale green, stems erect, 4'-7' tall, simple up to the inflorescence, conspicuously thickened at the nodes, the internodes mostly very short. Leaves subulate, stiff, 3"-6" long, strongly connate, with numerous minute or similar ones fascicled in their axils; cymes small, rather few-flowered, compact or rather loose; pedicels rarely more than 8" long; flowers X's" broad; calyx narrowly conic in fruit; sepals narrowly lanceolate, strongly 3-ribbed, long-acumi- nate, 2" long, longer than the capsule. In dry, rocky soil, Missouri and Kansas to Texas. Vol. II. II. Arenaria litorea Fernald. Beacli Sandwort. Fig. 1787. Arenaria litorea Fernald, Rhodora 8: 33. 1906. Perennial, similar to the preceding species, tufted, glabrous, slender, 8' high or less, leafy below. Leaves linear-subulate, somewhat 3-angled, fascicled at the nodes, about s" long; cymes i-several-flowered; pedicels slender, s"-i2" long, ascending; sepals iV-2\" long, ovate, acumi- nate, scarious-margined; petals ob- long, shorter than the sepals or nearly equalling them; capsule ovoid, some- what longer than the calyx. Sandy and gravelly shores, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba. 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, 1830-19
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