Throughout our region on wooded Slopes, 2500-6000 feet or more. 
Ze A. lateriflora L. Low, decumbent, leary herbs$ stems 10-15 om, long, 
“rom slender, creeping rootstocks, terete, not at all angled, puberulent, the q 
: internodes usually equalling or longer than the leaves; leaves oval, or 
’ elliptical, obtuse at both ends, 1-1.5 em. long, 8-10 mm. wide, glabrate, or 
; minutely roughened, ciliolate on the margin and on the veins beneath; flowers 
1-5 in terminal cymes somewhat longer than the leaves, pedicels 1-2 cm, long, 
bracts £ mm. long, scarious; serals £-2.5 mn. long, ovate, obtuse, scariousey =/ 
margined; petals half asain to twice as jong as the sepals, obovate, the 4 
Stamens inciuded, the filaments woolly in the lower half; capsule Ovoid, 4-5 
mMe long, the valves 5, lanceolate, acute, erect; seeds 1 mn. long, reniform, 
black and shining, smooth, with a small appendage at the hilum. (Moeringia 
dateriflora Penzle)..<+- . 
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@ oe Ae Serpyllifolia L. Annual, 10-15 cm. tall, much branched, puberulent 
throughout, internodes several times the length or the leaves; leaves ovate, 
4-5 mu. long, the upper sessile, the lowermost Shortly petiolate, acute, minutely 
hirtellous; flowers very numerous in panicled cymes, sepals 5.5 ma. long, lanceo- 
late, acute or acuminate, the margin scarious; petals 1.5 mn. long, elliptical, 
anthers pink; capsule flask-shaped, the valves 5D, lanceolate, acute; seeds .4 m. 
‘ long, reniform, minutely papillose, dull black. 
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Occasional in dry ground, along roadways below 3000 feet. ? 
Juake Coeur d'Alene, » Leibers 1308; Epling and Houck 10018; Hope, 
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