110 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
bent at top, glabrous except the very minutely and 
sparingly glandular inflorescence ; leaves mostly uniformly 
distributed, gradually reduced above, suberect, shorter 
than the internodes, narrower, entire, keeled on the mid- 
rib, without evident lateral veins, the lowest or those on 
sterile shoots often cuneately subpetioled; flowers few, 
nearly erect ; petals white or pale, 6 mm. long ; seeds .3x 1 
mm., broadly and bluntly but evidently papillate, the beak 
scarcely hyaline. — Bogs, Strawberry Valley, California 
( Pringle, 1881, no. 80) to Washington (Suksdorf, 1878, 
1885, and 1886 no. 860,— the former with broader, more 
veiny, and more crowded leaves, and occasional crisp 
pubescence on the stem). — Plate 46. ° 
37. E. ANAGALLIDIFOLIUM, Lam. — About a span high, 
at length rather densely cespitose, otherwise unbranched, 
the very slender stems commonly sigmoidally bent, and 
strongly nodding at apex, somewhat crisp-hairy at least 
in lines and occasionally very slightly glandular in the in- 
florescence; leaves 10 to 20 mm. long, ascending, rather 
uniformly distributed, all but the lowermost very narrowly 
ovate or oblong, rather obtuse, entire or remotely very low 
denticulate, cuneately narrowed, the lowest mostly wing- 
petioled, rather firm and inconspicuously veined, drying 
brown; flowers few, crowded at apex, somewhat nodding ; 
petals lilac to violet, about 5 mm. long; capsules 25 mm., 
slender, surpassing the end of the stem, their rather slender 
peduncles shorter than the leaves or, when only one or two 
are present, equalling the capsules; seeds somewhat obo- 
void-fusiform, short-beaked, .8x 1 mm.; coma somewhat 
dingy. — Dict. ii. (1786), 376; Haussknecht, Monogr. 
152. —From Labrador across Arctic America, south to 
the mountains of California ( Greene, etc. ), Colorado, and 
Nevada ( Watson, 1868, no. 394 in part). Also in the Old 
World. — Plate 47. 
Perhaps the lowest but slightly rough-seeded plants re- 
ferred to the last belong here. 
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