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“Resevmibet herbs from rather stout scaly Footstocks. Leaves chiefly 
basal with smalf stipules, the ceauline alternate. Flowers in en elongated 
narrow raceme. Calyx campanulate, l0-veined, the lobes free only at the 
apex. Petals 5, pinnately laciniate, narrowed at the base, inserted in the 
sinuses. Stamens 10, included, inserted near the sinuses, Ovary l-chambered 1% 
with 2 placentae and styles, nearly superior. Fruit a 2evalved capsule. 
l. Te. grandiflora (Purshy) Dougl. Fringe-cups. Serene herbs Co 
80-100 cm. tall, basal leaves several to numerous, the blades 5-10 on. broad, 
subrotund, deeply cordate at the base,. shallowly 5-7 lobed, serrate-crenate, 
both surfaces hirsute, the lower paler, on hirsute petioles 2-3 times as ] 
these with membranous stipules at the base, cauline leaves 2-4, conforming 
but smaller ,short-petioled or subsessile; raceme 20-30 cm. long, glandular, 
bracts minute; calyx urceolate, 5-10 mme long, glendular-hispidulows, the 
lobes 23 mn. long, obtuse,on pedicels 1-3 mm. lang; petals pinkish, spreading, 
then reflexed, pinnate, the divisions about 5 VEewebhenbess; stamens 1.5 | 
mme long; ovary subequal to the calyx tube, conical, capsule 10 mm. long, open- 
ing between the valves, about half-inferior; seeds numerous, 1 mm. long. ; 
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In moist, shaded, mature forest in stream bottoms, apparently only in the : 
northern part of our region. Upper <riest Re, 5000 ite; lughes Fk. 4,000 ft, 
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