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3 lie perfoliata (Dom) Howell. Minerts Lettuce. Annual from a small 
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taproot, stems several, commonly erect, 10-30 ecm, tall; leaves chiefly 
basal, often nearly wanting, the blade rhomboidal-ovate to oblanceolate 
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1-2 em, long, tapering to a slender petiole commoniy 3-4 times as long 
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varying on the same »lant to nearly linear, the stem leaves 2, united to 
form a rotund, but often angled, disc, 1-3 om, in diameter which subtends 
the inflorescences racemes 3-8 cm, long, comonly interrupted, the flowers 
grouped in small clusters; pedicels 5-8 mn, long, only the lowermost sub- 
tended by a bracts; sepals 2,5-5.5 ma, long, vetals white (or pinkish), 5-6 
mm. long; capsule awout equal to the sepals, seeds black and shining, oval 
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flattened, nearly smooth, 1.5-2 mm, long. (Claytonia verfoliata Donng Limmia 
verfoliata law.), 
oF Rare in our regione. “ake Pend Oreille, Leiberg, 
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var, depressa (Gray) Jens. Similar but smaller and depressed, commonly 
recdish, basal leaves broadly ovate; stem leaves only partially united on 
one side, still forming a partial disc; raceme commonly much shortened, 
even forming 2 loose clustcr in the disc, (Clayvtonia parviflora var, 
depressa Gray; Limmia depressa itydb.), Freouent on moist gravelly slopes 
or ledges in the mouncains, gravelly prairies on the zrassland, 
