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*** Stigma clavate, entire or but slightly notched: coma of seeds 
mostly persistent.— Plants of various habit, perennial by rhizomes, 
stolons, turions, etc. (Exceptions are EZ. exaltatum and E. Oreganum, 
both of which have conspicuously 4-lobed stigmas.) 
+ Spreading by filiform remotely scaly subterranean shoots, which end 
in ovoid winter bulblets with fleshy scales: capsules linear-fusiform, 
many seeded: seeds more or less papillate, mostly fusiform, with con- 
spicuous translucent beak at insertion of coma. — Generally slender 
plants with terete stems (or these with slightly prominent or pubescent 
lines in palustre), narrow minutely revolute leaves entire or rarely very 
remotely and obscurely denticulate, and small rosy or white flowers with 
short funnel-shaped calyx-tube. 
++ A foot or two high, usually corymbose above, especially in the 
typical form of the second: leaves numerous, ascending, chiefly alternate 
except the lowest, cuneately short petioled in the second only: flowers 
numerous, erect, in the upper axils: coma somewhat dingy. 
9. E.stricrum, Muhl.— Pubescent throughout with soft 
spreading white hairs; leaves 25 to 40 mm., rather obtuse, 
with evident lateral veins; petals 4 to 7 mm. long; cap- 
sules 50 to 75 mm., much exceeding their peduncles; seeds 
-4to.5x1.8 mm., nearly obconical, more prominently papil- 
late than those of the following two species. — Catal. 
(1813), 39, with no description other than the word 
‘*soft,’’ referring to the very characteristic pubescence; 
Sprengel, Syst. ii. (1825), 233, with description; Hauss- 
knecht, Monogr. 254. — #. molle, Torr. Fl. U. S. (1824), 
393, but not Lamarck; Watson, Index, 365; Barbey and 
Cuisin, pl. 12 (the text as Z. strictum, Muhl). — Bogs, New 
England, Canada West, and Minnesota, to Illinois and Vir- 
ginia. — Specimens examined from various points in Canada, 
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode 
Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. — 
Plate 11. 
10. E. trgare, Muhl. — Canescent throughout with 
short incurved hairs; leaves as long as in the last, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, without evident lateral veins; petals 3 to 
5mm. long; capsules 50 mm., often on long slender pedun- 
cles ; seeds fusiform, .4x 1.5 mm. — Cat. (1813), 39, with 
