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8. Luetkea bonge Partridge Foot, 
Colonial verenniel herbelike undershrubs with creeping woody stems, 
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Leaves sufted, twiece+or thrice) ternately=varted into linear lobes. Flowers | 
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in short racenes which terminate the erect flowering stems, all perfect, 
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Calvx Sevarted without annendares, the tube hemispherical, Petals 5, white, { 
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Sbemens about 20, seated on the margin of the tube, Pistils mostly 5, glebrout 
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forning 2-valved vods 2% maturitye 
1. Le pectinata (Pursh) Kuntze Plants o-15 cm, tall, tufted or mat-forming, 
besring at the anex of stems a tuft of leaves from which arises the flowering 
stem; lenves 1(-15 mm. lon, narrowed below the middle to 2 petiole 1-1,.5 m, 
broad, the lobes all entire, glabrous; flowering scems 8-10 mim, tall, bearing’ 
o, four alternate le ves, thinly pubescont; bracts subfolier; pedicels 1-2 mn, } 
long; sepals oblong-ovete, obtuse, 2.9 mn, long; petals ovate, 2.5 mn. longfe § 
Moist subalvine slone belo; melting snow banks, sive Lekes butte, unling# 
