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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...Glabrous, stems regularly and dichotomously branched, 6-12 inches long: branches spreading: leaves spatulatelinear, obtusish, spreading, 5-10 lines long: internodes elongated, 1-2 inches in length: peduncles solitary in the forks of the branches, 1-1% inches long, ascending: sepals 4-5, oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved: petals none: stamens 4-8: styles 3-4, very short: capsule obtuse, not exceeding the calyx.--S. crasszfulla, Wats. Bibl. Index, 111 in part; Wats. & Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 87 in part. Sagina fontinalis, Short & Peter, Transylv. Journ. Med. 28, 600; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 177. Spergula fontinalis, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 1597.--Clifls of Kentucky River and Elkhorn Creek, Kentucky, Short 8' Peler; Nashville, Tenn., Gattinger; April, May. This too little known plant, of distinctly aquatic habit, merits further study with more abundant material. It is certainly distinct from S. crasszfolia, Ehrh. S. humifusa, RoTTB. Low, densely matted, smooth: stems prostrate or ascending, angulate, shining: leaves elliptic-ovate or oblong, acutish, 2-5 lines long, marcescent: peduncles axillary, 4-7 lines in length: sepals ovate-oblong, acute, narrowly margined: petals somewhat exceeding the calyx: seeds smooth.--Act. Hafn. x. 447, t. 4, f. 14; Torr. 4: Gray, Fl. i. 184; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 384. S. marginata, Cham. & Schlecht. Linnwa, i. 50. Arenaria thymifolia, Pursh, Fl. 317; Eaton & VVright, N. A. Bot. 132. A. Punitiana, Seringe in DC. Prodr. i. 414; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 102.--Salt marshes and boggy slopes, Little Cranberry Island, Maine, Redfield, and coast of Oregon, Howell Bros., northward to Alaska and Arctic America. (Greenland; N. Asia.) The commoner form, var. oVALIFoLIA, Fenzl, l. c., has leaves ovate or...
