) Circaen Le Enchanter's Wightshade, 
Delicate perennial herbs with opposite ovate membranous leaves and 
slender stems arising from small tubers, Flowers small, white, in short 
racemes. cepals 2, the calyx-tube Slightly prolonged above the ovarye 
Petals 2, notched at the apex. oStamens 2. Fruit 1 or e-chambered, 1 or 2 
seeded, obovate, covered with hooked bristles, 
© Plants 15-40 cm, tall; sepals 1.5 mm, long, 
4 shorter than the mature stamens L Ce pacifica 
ry Plants 5-20 cm. talls sepals 1.2 mm, long, subecual 
4 to or longer than the stamens 2. Ce alpina 
1. Ce pacifica Asch, & Magn, Stems 15-40 cm,, commonly 25-50 cm, tall; 
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leaves oprosite, the blades thin, broadly ovate, o@ the lowermost orbicular, 
acuminate, rounded or lightly cordate at the base, 2.5-6 em. long, glabrous 
above, very thinly hirtellous beneath, the margins ciliolate, obscurely 
denticulate, the petioles 2-2.5 cm. long; flowers white, on pedicels 2-3 mm, 
long in flower and ascending in a terminal panicle 5-10 om, long, the branches 
subtended by slender awl-shaped bracts 2-5 mn, long; sepals ovate, 2.5 mm, 
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long; petals broadly spatulate, 2-lobed, erect, 2 mm, long, excecded by the 
stemens ar? style; fruit 2 ma, long, obovate, glandular hairy, the hairs hooked, 
the pedicels spreading or reflexed, 5-7 m, long. 
Common throughout our region in moist woods. 
Ze Ve alpina L, Stems slender, 5-20 cm. tall, glabrate, arising from small tubers 
5-8 ma, long, leaves sparingly hirtellous, the blades 1-3 cm, long, ovate, 
obtuse or shortly acuninate, rounded or subcordate at the base, sharply denticu- 
ate, borne on petioles .5=1 cm, long; flowers few, borne on »cdicels eO IM, 
long, elongating to 2 mm, in fruit; in lightly glandular racemes 1-2 em, ilong3 
sevals @ mm, long, subequal to the starzens; vetals 1.2-1.5 mm, long, deevly 
