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Je falcatus E. leyer. > Rootstocks slender, tv6—0—mem—i> 
stems loosely tufted, 10-20 cm. tall, terete, 
pabelaweons and minutely roughened ; cauline leaves 1 or wanting, shortly 
auricled, the = 
pasal leaves simizasy 1/2-2/3. the length of the stem or longer, flat, 
minutely Toughenéd, sickle-shaped; inflorescence terminal, subtended by a 
submembranous, acuminate bract 2-2.5 cm. long, subequal to the inflorescence; 
glomerules 24 on peduncles 1-2 cm. long; bractlets lanceolate, brown and 
Chaffy rather than scarious, minutely roughened, subequal to the perianth 
segments; flowers 35-8, perianth seements green in the middle, chestnut-brown 
and subscarious on the margins, 4-5 mm. long oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
minutely roughened on the back; stamens half the length of the segments , the 
anthers longer than the filaments; capsule oblong, subequal to the perianth 
segments, angled; seeds oblong-elliptical, obtuse or shortly apiculate. 
Wet places, Kootenai Co., Sandberg. 
