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strifose, stinules narrowly oblong, obtuse, brovmish, membranous; flowers 
Sle in smell clomerules, she cslomerules forming a simple or branching 
sessl 
snike, the pistillate spikes in the upper axils, drcooving, commonly 5-4 cm, 
long, the s 
dioecious, spreading, both sparingly vubescent, very slender, not strifose; 
staminete sepals somewhat more then 1 mme long, ovate, acute, the filements 
syrice as longs; inner vistillate seprls subrotund, the outer half as long or 
less, much narrower; achene about 1 mn, long, elliptic-ovate, smooths 
~sadows and stream bottoms of the white pine type throughout our renge, 
©500 so 5500 feet or moreée 
3 Ue gracilis +:ite 
8-15 om, long, sparingly vrovided with stinging hairs, otherwise glabrate, 
leaves rather yellowish-creen, the lover ovate, 10-12 cm. long, 5-6 cn. 
brocrd, sometimes brosdly ove ;ey oreveailingly rounded at the base, hardly 
cordate, or the lovernost cordote, very scute but hardly acuninate, the 
margins coarselyetoothed, the teeth 5-10 mai. tall, both surfaces glabrous 
excert for stingins hairs elonc the veins, or shortly rubescent, the median 
end wover leaves similar In% tending to lonceolete, tynically rounded at the 
les 1-3 en, long, stout; stiovles membranous, oblongelsnceolate, 
acute, 1l-1.5 cm. lone; branches of the ~istillate inflorescence Zo-o0 Mm, 
lone, hispidulous, hoary, those of the sceminate inflorescence 4=6 cm, 
long; inner seals oF che Sstillate flovers sesrcely lium, long, nearly 
in fruit, those of the steninate 1.o mn. long, all hispidulous; 
tanuens 2.5 1m. long, vellows; achenes snooth, slizchtly more then 1 mm, long. 
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eracilis is here intorsreted, in sense of vcrnalc, as a northern s ecics par 
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ciysering our bounGcrlese oubsless U, Viridis Rvdbe will be found alone ovr 
taminate fre-uently in the axils beneath the pistillate or the plants 
Stems erect, 1-1.5 m. tall, usually purple, the internodes 
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