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tion of the genus. It is not nearly so pale and glaucous as 5. 

 angustifolijan, if at all so, and dries much darker ; the leaves and 

 stem are broader, the spathes and bracts larger and of a some- 

 what different shape, the flowers and especially the fruit larger, the 

 seeds little larger but darker, more globose and more distinctly 

 and narrowly umbilicate. S, littorale has perhaps its nearest rel- 

 ative in vS", Idahocnse^ but is clearly separable by thinner and 

 broader leaves and stem, smaller flowers and larger fruit 



