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#6. Maianthemum Weber, 
krect, unbranched herbs with slender creeping rootstocks and 23 
broad alternate leaves. Flowers small, white, in terminal racemes, 
Perianth segments 4, Stamens 4, inserted on the Segments, anthers retrorse., 
Ovary z-chambcred, stigmas 2, ovules 2 in each locule. Fruit a subglobose 
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le Me bifolium (Le) DC. var. kamtschaticum (Gmel.) Trautv, & Meyer. 
Rootstock 1,5-2 mm, in diameter; stem slender, glabrous, 20-30 em, tall; 
basal leaf on a petiole 12-15 cm, long, the blade deeply cordate or 
subreniform, abruptly acuminate, 6-12 cm, long§ cauline leaves commonly 
é, borne in the upper part of the flexuous stem, similar to the basal, 
ovate, on petioles 1-4 cm, long, glabrous; raceme 3-6 cm, long, the pedicels 
spreading, in groups of 2-3, age on long; perianth segments oval, 
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e mm. long; stamens 1/2-2/3 as long, the style subequal; berry red, 6 mm, 
in diameter; seeds commonly 2-5, ovate, 3mm, long, 
Priest Lake (vrobably in shaded woods near the margin), Piper 3685 4 not 
Aunree cotlockid . 
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