constricted between the seeds, 2-chambered, opening with 4 valves, 
Seeds @fsef without a coma, 
pm Pods strongly flattened laterally, not constricted 
~ between the seeds; leaves 2=3 mma, wide AL Ge humile 
g Pods not flattened laterally, constricted between 
4 the seeds; leaves 1-2 mm, wide 
~ Petals 2 mm, long 2. Ge lasiospermm 
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© Petals 1-1.5 mn, long 
A Stems glabrous 3.Ge ramosissimum 
A Stems clothed with spreading hairs 4. Ge Helleri 
1. Ge humile Juss. A low glabrous annual 10-15 cm, tall, branching 
mostly at the base, the stems shining, reddish; leaves linear-oblanceo- 
late, 1,5-2,5 cm, long, 2-3 mm, wide, sessile, somewhat fleshy for the 
genus; flowers axillary but opposite the leaves on pedicels 1 mn, long 
or less; sepals 1.5 mm, long, ovate, soon reflexed; petals 1.5 m, 
A aid. a) 0 
Cf 1 ios . 
long, white, spreading; mature sed 12 m, long, 2-2,.5 mm. wide, oblong, 
strongly flattened laterally, not constricted between the sceds; seeds 
o8 mm, long, oblong, smooth. (G. pumilum S, iiats.) 
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Seen only in compact mudcy ground along trail through a subalpine 
meadow, ish Leke, 6000 fte, Hpling and Houck 9705, Cedar Mts. and Lake 
Waha (fide liunz)e 
2e Ge lasiospermin Greene, Stems slender, much branched, 15-20 cm, tall, 
the branches very slender, threadlike, glabrous; leaves nearly sessile, 
linear, glabrous, l-2 cm, long, 1-2 mm, wide; flowers axillary, minute, 
on thread-like pedicels 5-6 mm, long in fruit; sepals 1.5 mm, long, 
soon reflexed, these and the ovary minutely puberulent with appressed 
hairs} petals white, becoming rose-purple, 2-2.5 mm. long, broadly obovate; 
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