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De De lonchocarpa Rydb. Low caespitose perennial, the caudex branching, 
the leaves imbricated at the tips, cbovate or elliptical, 5-6 wna. long, 
obtuse, entire, densely stellate-pubescent; flowering stems simple, 5=10 4 
@m. tall, glabrous, bearing a few flowers toward the summit; flowers te; 4 
sepals nearly or quite glabrous, petals twice as long, retuse; ood Saas 
long 1-5 mme wide, glabrate, somesat least, with 1-2 distinct twists in ¢ 
some nearly plane, on pedicels 34-mm. long; seeds neither margined or winged, — 
broadly oval, 1 mm. long. 
Rare, in rock crevices of subalpine sumnits. —> 
——> Snowy Top Mt., 6000 ft., Anderson; Fish Lake, Epling and Houck 7972, 
6. De ,laevicapsula Paysone Low caespitose perenniel,,caudex mek 
branched, the leaves imbricated at the tips, narrowly oblanceolate, 5-10 
mie lons, obtuse, entire, stellate-pubescent; flowering stems simple, rather 
stout, 5-10 cm. tall, glabrous, bearing a few flowers toward the summit 
flewere-nes—soens pods elliptical, 8-9 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, tipped by the 
persistent style, nearly 1 mm. long, glabrous; seeds neither winged wr 
margined. (De incerta Payson var. laevicapsula (Payson) Payson et St, 
John). 
Type and only known collection, apart from a Brandegee: sheet from 
"Yakima region", Washe, is summit of Stevens Peak, 6400 ft., Leiberg 
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