ENS Saami ialie dali 5 
Perennial herbs with scaly rootstocks. Leaves basal and cauline, longs 
§}petioled with stimles. Flowers}in a Cymose panicle. Calyx campamulate or _ 
turbinate, sepals 5. Petals 5, white, short-clewed. Stamens 5, alternate 
tw. gnmatting [plandularfpanicle) 10-25 om. long, bracts lanceolate to linear; | 
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fo. Boykinia Nutt. ‘ 
with the petals. Ovary about 2/3 inferior, 2=chambered, with two styles. 
Placentae axial. Capsule 2-valved. 
1. Be major Grays —~»Peremnial herbs with rather stout, elongate root- 
stocks; leaves chiefly basal on reddish-villous, glandular petioles 8-20 om. 
long, the blades reniform, 6-20 om. broad, the sinus broad, palmately 7-lobed 
to the middle, the lobes cuneate-incised and sharply toothed at the apex, upper 
surface glabrous, the lower paler, glandular-vill 
cauline leaves similar, reduced uy 
clasping, the stipules often foliaceous; 
calyx shallowly campanulate or urceolate, 5-6 mm. long, glandular, the lobes 
spreading, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, exceeding the tube; petals oval or — 
obovate, 6-8 mm. long, shortly clawed; stamens included, seated on a yellow 
disc; styles free; ofry almost wholly inferior. -»(Therofon majus Wheelock), 
Abundant along the margins of streams in the 
ages, 2500-5500 feet; not seen elsewhere. 
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