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Root speks very slender, creeping, the stems 
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usually decumbent at the base, 5825 omy tall,: glubtous; leaves obovate 
or spatulate towards the base, oblong-ovate or ovate above, S=-12 mm, long, 
‘lO mm, wide, mostly acute, sessile, the uvper internodes 3-5 times ag 
long as the leavess bracts of terminal cymes mostly scarious, 2-5 mm, 
long, the principe] brenches nearly horizontal, the secondary branches 
very slender, dotlexed, the flowers appvea 
xCa >» towers ay vearing pendulous; pedicels 0,583 
om. long; sepals 4.5-5 mm, long, narrowly ovate, acute, weakly S-nerved; 
petals minute or wanting; stamens half as long as the sepals; capsules 
4 mn, long, »ointing downwards; seeds scarcely 1 m,, minutely rugulose, 
(Alsine baicalensis Cove), 
Meadow, rish Lake, 6000 ft,., spling and Kempf, 
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— _Se nitens Nutt. tufted annuals, the stems erect, 10-15 cm. tall, 
unbranched except in the inflorescence, glabrous, or somewhat puberulent in 
the lower parts; leaves chiefly in the lowermost axils, 1 cm. long or less, 
oblong, acuteysessile, Glavrous, the lowermost spatulate;: Cymes on subequal 
peduncles occupying most of the Stems, the bracts 2-5 mn. lons, scarious; 
pedicels 1-5 cm. long, very Slender; calyx 4 mn. long, the sepals shining, 
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lanceolate, very acute, scarious-marrcined; corolla subequal to the calyx, often 
wanting; capsule oarely exserted. 
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