as Ae Pipcri Britton, Stems erect, glabrous, 10-50 cm, tall, from 
horizontal or vertical rootstocks, basal scales scarious, glabrous 
basal leaf solitary or wanting, blade :eniform in outline, trifoliolate, 
the segments rhombic-obovate or ovate, subcuneate at the base, the lateral 
segments two-lobed, resembling two leaflets, toothed above the middle, the 
teeth obovate or ovace, lightly acuminate, thinly hirsute, then glabrous, 
ciliate, vetioles 1/2 to 2/3 the length of the stem; cauline leaves similar 
but somewhat larger, the vetioles 1.5-3 cm. long, expanded at the base; 
flowers solitary; sepals 5 (7), white, oval, 8-20 m, long, narrowed below; 
anthers scarcely 1 mn, long; carpels about 25, silky-villous, becoming 
narrowly ovate, 2e5-3 mm. long, atcenuate into a style 1-1.5 mn, long, the 
clusters globose, 
. 4 
“requent in the southern part of our region at all cleyations, chiefly 
in shaced woods, but also in subalpine meadows, flowering at edge of snowbanks, | 
Type coll, taken by C. V. Piper in Latah Co, in 1893-6 
