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A Me linearis (Dougl.) Greene. Annual from g rass-like roots, branching 
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from the base, the stems numerous, forming a small tuft 5-20 cm, tall; 
leaves narrowly linear and alternate throuzhout, 1-4 em, long, 1-1,.5 mm, 
wide, sessile and clasping; racemes l-sided, only the lowermost flowers with 
small bracts, pediccls .5-l1 cm, long; sepals becoming 4 mm, 1 ong, broad 
qW and rounded, pink, persistent and chafiy in ages petals scarcely 1 m, 
longer, white, distinct, unecual; stamens 33; capsule shorter than the sepals; 
seeds 1 mm, broad, lenticular, black end shining, (Claytonia linearis Dougles; 
Montiastrum lineare ltydb.). 
In dry soils on open prairie in the grassland, Julietta, Darlington; 
Post Falls, St. John 43273 Senta, svling et al; Harvard, iupling, 
rs M. dichotoma (Nutt.) Howell. A low annual 3-6 em. tall, branching more or 
less dichotomously fromthe base, the basal leaves soon withcring, the stem 
leaves alternate, linear, scarcely 1 m, wide, l-2 cm, long; racemes 1-4 cm, 
long, bractless, the flowers l-sided; vedicels 2-5 mie long; sevals 2,5-3 
mm, long; the petals subeuual or shorter, white, distinct; seeds blacl: and shining, 
l mm, in diameter, lenticular, 
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Ww Annearing as a diminished replica of li, linearis and growing with it 
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abundantly, but apoarently distinet. Santa, spnling et al, 
