. 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. ALSINACEAE. Vol. II. 3. Cerastium vulgatum L. Larger Mouse- ear Chickweed. Fig. 1765. Cerastium vulgatum L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 627. 1762. Cerastium triviale Link, Enum. Hort. Ber. i : 433. 1821. Biennial or perennial, viscid-pubescent, tufted, erect or ascending, 6'-i8' long. Lower and basal leaves spatulate-oblong, obtuse; upper leaves oblong, 6"-i2" lon
. 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. ALSINACEAE. Vol. II. 3. Cerastium vulgatum L. Larger Mouse- ear Chickweed. Fig. 1765. Cerastium vulgatum L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 627. 1762. Cerastium triviale Link, Enum. Hort. Ber. i : 433. 1821. Biennial or perennial, viscid-pubescent, tufted, erect or ascending, 6'-i8' long. Lower and basal leaves spatulate-oblong, obtuse; upper leaves oblong, 6"-i2" long, 3"-s" wide, acute or obtuse; bracts scarious-margined; inflorescence cymose, loose, the pedicels at length much longer than the calyx; sepals obtuse or acute, about equalling the 2-cleft petals, 2"-3" long; capsule curved upward. In fields and woods, nearly throughout our area. Naturalized from Europe. Often a troublesome weed. Occcurs also in the Southern and Western States, and is native in northern Asia. Mouse-ear. May-Sept. 4. Cerastium longipedunculatum Muhl. Nodding Chickweed. Powder-horn. Fig. 1766. C, longipedunculatum Muhl. Cat. 46. 1813. Cerastium nutans Raf. Free. Decouv. ^6, 1814. Annual, bright green, stem weak, reclining or ascending, diffusely branched, 6'-24' long, striate, finely clammy-pubescent to glabrate. Lower and basal leaves spatulate, obtuse, petioled, 4'-i' long, those of the middle part of the stem lanceolate or oblong, i'-2' long, 3"-4" wide, the upper similar, acute, sessile, gradually smaller; inflor- escence loosely cymose; pedicels slender, in fruit several times the length of the calyx; flow- ers 2"-3" broad; sepals lanceolate, obtuse or acutish, about one-half the length of the 2-cleft petals; pods nodding, s"-^" long, curved upward, much exceeding the calyx. In moist, shaded places, Nova Scotia and Hudson Bay to North Carolina, west to British Columbia, Nevada and northern Mexico. The plant
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