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stamens and style erect, subecual to the petals; peds 5-7 ma, long, mostly 
subecual at both ends, constricted between the seeds; seeds 1.5 mm, 
long, finely puberulent, egg-shaped. 
A southern California species reaching its northern limit in our 
area: Latah Coe, Piper 1635; Fish Lake, 6000 ft., Epling and Houck 9614, 
3. G, ramosissimum T., ‘:: Ge Baby's Breath, A much branched annual 10-40 
em, tall, with zigzag smooth stems and very slender filiform branches 
about the diameter of a fine needle, the internodes 1-3 cm, long; leaves 
nearly sessile, linear, glabrous, 1-2 cm, long, l-2 mm, wide; flowers 
axillary, minute, on thread-like pedicels deflexed and 2-3 m, longgpt 
maturity; sepals 1.5 mm, long, quickly reflexed, these and the ovary 
minutely puberulent with appressed hairs; petals white, broadly obovate, 
1.5 mm. long, spreading, then erect and touching, becoming rose-purvle; 
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stenens and style erect, subequal to the petals; pods 5-7 mm, long, 
sonewhot larger towards the apex, constricted between the seeds; seeds 
about 1.0 mm. iong, egg-shaned, smooth, not puberulent,. 
Occasional in dry hard ground along trails or on dry slopes 
throughout our region but inconspicuous. »%imulates Kpilobium paniculatum 
though smaller flowered. 
4. Ge Helleri Rydb. A low slender annual clothed throughout with spreading 
straight short hairs, the stems 10-50 cm, tall; leaves linear, 8-20 mm, 
long, 1-2 ma, wide, tavering 2t the base, subsessile; flowers axillary 
on pedicels 1-2 mn, long or less; sepals le2 mm, long, ovate, soon 
reflexed; petals scarcely 1 mm, long, white, then pink; mature capsule 9-11 
ma, long, «7 mn, wide, even, subsessile, clothed with spreading hairs; 
seeds 1 mn, long, narrowly obovate, finely puberulent, 
Forest, Nez Perce Voe, Heller 3453 (type); may extend into our region. 
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