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fa. Tofieldia Hudse 
Perennial herbs with short horizontal or ascending rootstocks and 
mostly basal grass-like leavese Stems erect, scapelike. Flowers in a : 
short terminal raceme, or slender panicle, small, greenish or white, sub= 
tended by small bracts. Perianth segnents glandless, spreading, subequal, : 
persistent, subtended by a scarious 3-lobed involucre. Stamens 6, filaments 
filiform. Pistil sessile, 3-lobed, the lobes spreading, capsule septicidal, 
peaked by the persistent style; seeds numerous, with or without an appendages 
1. Tofieldia occidentalis Watse Rootstocks fibrous-coated, densely matted; 
leaves 10-50 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, glabrous, acute; stems 30-40 cm, tall, 
viscid-glandular; flowers about 12 or more in clusters of three, each cluster 
subtended by an acuminate scarious bract; imvolucre scarcely 1 mm. long, the 
bractlets connate about half their length, forming & cup nvar the base of the 
corolla; perianth-seguents white or purplish tinted, the inner oblong-oblanceoe 
late, the outer ovate or obovate, all 3eveined, 4 mm, long, spreading; stamens 
erect, subequal to the segments; capsule ovoid, 6-8 mm, long; 3-lobed, the 
Gips recurved, often purplishs seeds 1,8 mn, lone, amber color, narrowly oval, 
the testa loose, terminating in a filiform appendage twice the length of the 
seed or moree 
Frequent in sphagnum bogs 4000-6000 ft. (Oxford Re Ses Epling and Ylouck 9663); 
found also in small subalpine communities along the sandy margins of the St. Joe 
and Clearwater rivers, Epling and Houck 9431, as low as 5000 fte ds AUN OCC“ 
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