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G Stcironema Raf e 
“rect perennial herbs with ovoosite leaves and ciliate petioles, 
‘lowers solitary in the upper axils. Sepals 5, Corolla yellow, 5-parted, 
the lobes obovave or subrotund, spreading. Stamens 5, alternating with 
5 short toothlike staminodia, style filiform, Capsule opening vertically, 
10-20 seceded, 
1, S. ciliatum (L.) Xaf. Perennial with slender rather deeply seated roote> —¥ 
stocks; stems erect, unbranched, 20-0 em, tall, glabrates; leaves somewhat 
“thorled in the uppermost axils, the blades ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4-10 
em. long, mostly acuminate, rounced at the base,the margins entire, Cciliolate, 
the »etioles g=15 mme long, their margins strongly ciliate; flovers on 
nodaing pedicels 6-4 cm, long, increasing somewhat in fruit; sevals oblong=s> = | 
lanceolate, acute, 5-6 mm. long, spreading; corolla lobes obovate-rotund, 
o=-7 mi. long, narrowed at the base to a short reddish Claws; anthers and 
filaments subequal, spreading in anthesis, then erect, shorter than the petals, 
the staminodia subulate, reddish, 1.5 mm, long; capsules subglobose, 4 mn, 
broad, she style persistent, Lysimachia ciliata L,). 
3 ev = a . 
In rocky crevices or gravelly places along streams and lakes at lower 
elevations, 
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