8. Se crispa C. & 5. Stems slender but ascending, or decumbent, glabrous. | 
throughout; leaves 1-2 cme long or less, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, rounded at the base and narrowed to a short petiole or sessile; 
flowers axillary on pedicels 1-2 cme long, recurved or deflexed in fruit; 
calyx 5.5-4 mm. long, sepals lanceolate, very acute, thin and subscarious 9 the 
white margins nearly as proad as the green middle portion; petals véry thin, 
much shorter than tne sepals or often wanting; capsule elliptical, exserted 
1-2 mm.; seeds about .8-l ma. long, light brow, rugulose-pitted. 
Frequent throughout our range in springy places along trails, along 
subalpine streams, chiefly above 5000 feet, but extending as low as 2500 
feet in the Thuja type; often growing with Se obtusa. 
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9. 5e Obtusa ingelm. Low mat forming plants, the stems very slender, 8-12 : 
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, cme long; leaves lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 
acuminate, rounded at the base and tapering to a short ciliolate petiole, 
otherwise glabrous; flowers solitary in the axils on pedicels 8-10 mne long, 
deflexed in age; sepals 25-5 mm. long, oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, 
green with a very narrow scarious white margin; petals .5 mn. long, obovate ; 
or commonly wanting; styles 5-4; capsule ovoid, 3-305 mm. long, valves 3-5, 
scarcely exceeding the sepals; seeds finely yapillose in lines appearing ridged, 
less than .5-.6 ma. in diameter. (A. viridula Piper). 
Priest 2., 3000 £t., Enling 7449; 2peteSeM Viessner's Feak, a tl 
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