. 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. 2. Anychia canadensis (L.) Slen- der Forked Chickweed. Fig. 1724. Queria canadensis L. Sp. PI. go. 1753. Anychia dichotoma Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: II3- 1803. Queria capillacea Nutt. Gen. i: 159. 1818. Anychia capillacea DC. Prodr, 3; 369. 1828. Anychia canadensis Prel. Cat. N. Y. 1888. Glabrous or very nearly so, stem very slender or filiform, usua
. 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. 2. Anychia canadensis (L.) Slen- der Forked Chickweed. Fig. 1724. Queria canadensis L. Sp. PI. go. 1753. Anychia dichotoma Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: II3- 1803. Queria capillacea Nutt. Gen. i: 159. 1818. Anychia capillacea DC. Prodr, 3; 369. 1828. Anychia canadensis Prel. Cat. N. Y. 1888. Glabrous or very nearly so, stem very slender or filiform, usually erect, repeatedly forked above, 6'-i2' tall, the internodes sometimes i' long, much longer than those of the preceding species. Leaves elliptic, oval or sometimes ob- lanceolate, 3"-8" long, i"-4" wide, obtuse or short-pointed at the apex, narrowed into petioles about i" long, not crowded; flowers minute, more or less pedicelled. In dry woods, Vermont and Ontario to Massa- chusetts and Georgia, west to Minnesota, Kansas and Arkansas. Ascends to 4200 ft. in North Caro- lina. June-Sept. 4. SCLERANTHUS L. Sp. PI. 406. 1753. Low annual herbs, with rather stiff forking stems, opposite subulate leaves connate at the base, no stipules and minute green clustered apetalous flowers. Calyx not bracted, deeply s-lobed (rarely 4-lobed), the lobes awnless, the cup-like tube (hypanthium) hardened. Stamens i-io, inserted on the calyx-tube. Ovary ovoid; styles 2, distinct; ovule solitar\-, pendulous, amphitropous. Utricle l-seeded, enclosed by the calyx. [Greek, referring to the hard calyx-tube.] About 10 species, of wide geographic distribution in the Old World, the following naturalized from Europe as a weed. Type species : Scleranthus annuus L. I. Scleranthus annuus L. Knawel. German Knotgrass. Fig. 1725. Scleranthus annuus L. Sp. PI. 406. 1753. Much branched from long and rather tough roots, the branches prostrate or spreading, 3'-$' long, roughish- puberulent o
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