Gy, Ge trifidum L. var. subbiflorum Wiegand. —_» Perennial, the stems 
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Ge bifolium S. Wats. >A small erect anmal 15-20 om. tall, 
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the stems simple or déyaricately branching above, glabrous; leaves 2-4 in 
ery slender, weak, reclining, branching above, 15-30 om. long, the angles 
margined, scabrous; leaves in whorls of 4-6, linear-oblong 
late, or the larger narrowly elliptical, 8-15 mm. lon 1.5-4 mm. 
veined, the margins and vein scabrous; flowers 2-3 in axillary cymes or 
solitary, the petals ovate, .7 mm. long, white, mostly in 3's; fruit glabrous, 
black, the carpels globose, each 1-1.5 mm. in diameter. 
In wet or muddy ground or in SWaMDS. 
each whorl, unequal in size, 1-2 om. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide, lanceolate or 
oblong, nostly acute, narrowed at the base, l-veined 
solitary in the axils on pedicels 8-12 mm. long 
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glabrous; flowers Fy. 
{soon deflexed @ corollas 
white; mature carpels globoserovoid, 1.5 mm. long, armed with “7 slender hooked” 
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Infrequent at high elevations in moist situations. at Perr eremm ee 
mo  —» Fish Lake Cr., 5000 ft., Epling and Houck 9471; Epling and Kempf. 
y, Ge boreale L. ——— > Rootstooks slender, the stems erect, frequently 
reclining amsewhet-amuskewhbeey but not trailing, 30-100 em. tall, scabrous 
or nearly smooth; leaves in whorls of 4, 2-4 om. long, lanceolate to linear@> 
lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base and subsessile, 3-veined, thickish, 
sparing] hirtellous; ¢ememendereretiver )sh terminal 10-30 om. 
long, /Whites) the bracts subfoliar, the ®, in pairs; corolla 
obes ova 
S~lanceolate, 2.5 mm. long, 5-voined; oppgmeishepmieteres mature 
carpels subglobose, 1.5 mm. in diameter, hispidulous with short curved hairs. 
Frequent at lower elevations in meadows bordering shrubbery or on open 
hillsides, ; 
