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se, the margins scarious there, the inner bract 3 mm, long, scarious; 
owers on pedicels 1-2 mm, long, cach closely bracteate; outer perianth 
ements 5 ma, long, linear-lanceolate, acute, 5-veined, the inner 2-2,5 
mm, long, l-veined, all green and scarious; stanens half the length of 
the segments, the anthers somewhat shorter than the filaments; capsule 
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oval to subglobose, e mn. long, polished; seeds .5 mm, long, curving 
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ightly and apiculate at one or both ends, but not appendaged, 
Usually along sandy stream bottoms below 3000 ft.; gregarious. 
llan Peak, 3000 ftes; bank of Upnver St, Maries Re, 3000 ft.; Oro- 
grande Cr.; Bonners Ferry; Sandpoint; Priest R. Exp. Sta. 2500 ft.; 
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jest Lake; Lioovie R. 
J, balticus Willd. var. montanus Engelm, Rootstocks creeping, the scales 
ate-lanceolate, 4-5 mm, long; apparent stems erect, soft and pliant, 206) =/ 
em, tall, leaves all sheathing and scale-like, brown and glossy, 1-10 
em, long, the blades 1 mm, long, or wanting; inflorescence 5=20 flowered, 
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peering as a cluster somewhat above the middle of the apparent stem, the 
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outer bract much elongated, 5=8 cm. long, terete, very acute, sheathing 
only at the base, the inner bract 5 mm, long; each branch of the inflores- 
cence bracteate; flowers on pedicels 1-3 mm, long, each subtended by sev- 
er 
al scarious bracts; outer perianth segments 3-4 mm, long, lanceolate, 
acute, obscurely veined, the middle portion green, becoming straw-colored, 
th 
e margins brown, scarious, inner segments similar, somewhat shorter and 
narrower, leveined; stamens about 2/3 the length of the segments, the 
anthers twice the length of the Pere capsule oval or oblong, 5 mn, 
long, polished, brown; secds 0 mm, long, curving slightly and usually 
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iculate at one or both ends, (J. ater Rydb.). 
In bog¢ round and ditches along roadways. Jliear Kellogg; Moscow; 
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