A. verna Ll. “var. pubescens (C,& 5) Fernald. Low herbs, loosely 
branching at the base, tufted, 6-12 cm. tall, stems filiform, the lower nodes 
shorter than the leaves, the upper much lomget,hirtellous and glandular; leaves 
5-8 mm. long, about .5 mi. wide, hirtelious anu glandular, usually blunt, “at 
S-veined, connate but hardly scarious at the base; flowers in terminal cymes 
of 2-4 or solitary, pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3 mm. 
long, S-veined, acute, with a scarious margin; petals rotund-ovate, <.5 mm. long, 
the stamens subequal; capsule narrowly ovoid, the valves 5, oblong, truncate at 
the apex, recurved; seeds brown, -6 mm. long, reniform, minutely papillose. 
‘ Rare in our region. Saal 
no —ySenu bars, Urper Priest Riv., 5000 ft., Epling 7551. 
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Gyn Ae pusilla Wats. Inconspicuous annuals o-6 cn. vall, branching from 
the base, the stems glabrous, threadiike; leaves opposite, lanceolate, O50. 
mae long; flowers solitary in tne axils on very slender hairlixke pedicels 
3-10 mn. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, S-veined, 5 mae long; petals 
shorter than the sepals, lanceolate or eliiptical or entirely wanting; stamens 
3; Capsule 2.5 mu. long. 
sear Moscow, Abrams O44. 
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