Balsaminaceac. Joewel-weed Family. 
Verbs with watery more or less translucent stems and swollen nodes. 
Leaves aktornate, simple, without stipules. Flowers perfect, irregular, 
zygomorphic. Sepals 3 or 5, petaloid, the posterior one usually spurred or 
at least saccate at the base. Stamens 5, the anthers more or less united. 
. Pistil 1, the ovary 5=-chambered, superior. Fruit a capsule, elastically 
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Annual herbs os coscribed above. Petals eppementiy 3, dissimilar, 
the laterals 2-lobed, 
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1. I. aurella Rydb. ve A pale green erb as much as 1 me. tall,much branched; ; 
leaf blades 4-6 om. long, ovate or oval, obtuse, rounded or narrowed at the 
@ base, coarsely toothed, the teeth again serrate, petioles 1-2.5 cm. long; 
, flowers showy in drooping axillary clusters 5-7 cm. long, the bracts awle> =| 
shaped, 3-4 cm. long; sepals usually pale yellow, orbicular, tipped with a 
short cusp, 5-6 mn. in diameter; petals orange-yellow, the upper petal 
transversely oblong, 5 x 8 mme,to subrotund 6-7 mme in diameter, sometimes 
spotted with red, the laterals 15 sm. long, bifid, the upper lobes 5-4 mm. 
long, truncate, the lower about 1@ mn. long, obovate or wedge-shaped and 
obliquely notched with a twist near the middle, the sac 10-15 mm. long, 7-10 i 
mme wide in the throat, the free portion about 5 mm. long, obtuse, narrowed 
abruptly to a spur 5-10 mm. long, strongly recurved and usually pressed 
against the sac; stamens 3 mm. long, opening in the bud, the filaments 
expanded, lightiv joined, forming 4 column around the pistil, humped at the 
apex,-soon falling, anthers 125 mm. long, somewhat arrow=shaped but obtuse; 
pod 1.5= 2 cm. lons, cylindrical or sub-clavats, glabrous and green; seeds 
3-5 mme long, flattenedselliptical, becaning dull black. @iimminnitibeseauiseay 
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Rare; in moist shaded bottoms or bogse The second collection is the type. 
ano H —» Lamb Cre, Epling and Houc!: 10240; MacAbee's Ranch, Priest &., Valley; 
. MacDougal 20; Siggy bud Lake, Sandberg 738; Moyie R., Lyall; Krauter's Camp, 
Hllison; Priest River, upling and Putnam; Granite Station, pling. 
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