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le Ze elegans Pursh, Blubs lanceolate, often clustered, the coats brown or 
blackish; leaves commonly 20-25 em, long, 4-5 mm, wide, tapering.acute, sheath-= 
ing ;+sheathing> stems 20-30 CMe tall, glaucous, slender; raceme open, each 
flower subtended by a scarious, often purplish, ovate bract, shorter than the 
pedicels; pedicels increasing in fruit to frequently 2-3 cm. long or more 
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ascending; perianth greenish or yellowish-white, the segments equal, 7-8 mm, 
long, ovate-elliptical or obovate, narrowed evenly at the base or slightly 
clawed, the gland greenish or yellow, thick and Conspicuous, deeply obcordate; 
aenther-sacs divergent, filaments expanded toward the base; capsule elliptical, 
. ” . Fe _ : : 
20-c5 mn. long, surpassing the erect, withered, perianth, (Anticlea elegans 
Rydb.e), 
Abundant locally in subalpine meadows, Snowy Top Mt., 6000 fte; Fish Lake, 
< 
6000 ft. This plant, like liedysarum occidentale, exhibits a discontinuous 
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distriwsution from Washington and northern’ Idaho to the Olympic Mts, 
Ce Ze Zramineus Rydbe Death Camas, Bulbs narrowly ovoid, usually erect, 
1.5 cm, long, usually less than 1 cm, in diameter, the outer coats blackishs 
leaves commonly 15-25 em, long, 3-5 ma, wide, about 2f3 the length of the stem, 
the margins minutely barbed, rough to the touch, the uvvermost leaves bractlike; 
flowers numerous, pale yellow with tinges of green, in racemes, the bracts 
scarious, linear, 1 cm, long or less; pedicels slender, 5-8 mn, long in flower; 
outer perianth segments rotund-ovate, nearly sessile, 3,5-4 mm, long, the inner 
broadly ovate, very obtuse, narrowed to a short Claw, the gland yellow,indistinct, 
hardly or not at all surmounted by a ridges stamens 5 mm. long, surpassing the 
lanceolate S-lobed ovary by 1-2 mm; fruit not seen, 
Gravelly thin soil in or near coniferous woods or in meadows, usually at 
lower clevations§ poisonous to stock but not of sufficient abundance in our 
region to be a serious factor, 
