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nute tufted herbs with slender matted root- 
7 Rossii R. Br. Mi . : 
stocus, 2-4 cm. tall; stems *iliform, the internodes about equal to the 
leaves, glabrous; leaves 6-15 mn. long, about °S mn. wide, glabrous, with a 
tiny spine at the tip, l-veined, scarious and connate and loosely Clasping at 
the base; flowers solitary on filiform peduncles 1-2 cm. long; sepals ovate, 
1.6 me long, l-veined; obtuse with a narrow scarious margin, spreading in 
fruit; petals rotund-ovate,l mn. long, the stamens somewhat longer; styles 5; 
Capsule 6 mme long, the valves lanceolate-oblong, truncate at the apex; seeds 
ef-ed mm. long, brown, reniform-triangular, very ‘minutely papillose. 
Infrequent in springy round along trails or in sandy river bottoms, 
5000-6000 feet, throughout our region. 
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—-Upper }riest Hiver, 5000 ft., Bpling 7462; Hughes Fork, 5000 ft., Sphing 
7599; 2ish Lake, 6000 ft., Epling and Hoyck 9785. 
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loba -wydb. }. 
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De Ae Obtusiloba (Rydb.) Fern. Low, caespitose mosslike herbs, much 
branched at the base, the stems covered with old leaves; leaves of sterile 
branches densely crowded, fasciculate, 5-6 mune long, .5 mm. wide ,i-veined , 
glabrous, but ciliolate on the margin, flowering stems 4-5 cm. tall, or less, 
the internodes 2-3 times the length of the somewhat smaller leaves, "glandulaze 
puberulent; flowers Solitary, sepals 4-4.5 mm. long, Oblong or oblong-lanceo- 
late, obtuse, scirious margined toward the tip, 5-veined, glandular-puberulent, 
often reddish; petals reddish, oblong, somey chat longer than the Calyx, stamens. 
subequal; styles 5; carsule lanceolate in outline , &bout equalling the sey als, 
valves o, lanceolate, narrowly truncate and lishtly notched at the apex; 
Seeds LrowNn .«6—e7 mn. long, reniform, lightiy payill osé. \Alsinovsis obtusi- 
“are in our resion on excosed 
i Co a ea AY ~ EEE ro ANI MAS 
——y .tsvens } eal, oem, Leiber: 1476; Snowy Jor ete, T000~-7400 feet, 
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PU lar @ Se Yerts, (9605 .arren c< O53 ANAEGIS Oe 
ridges anc .eaxs above 6000 feet. 4 
