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and narrowly bell-shaped white flowers with elongate recurved tips 



sugiciently distinguish it. 



Description. — A glabrous herbaceous perennial Rootstoch thick, branched, 

 aerial, set with the dry bases of the old stems. Stems several or many irom 



Fig. 24. — S. dumulosum Franchet. 



the summit of the rootstock, annual, erect or arching, unbranched, 4-7 inches 

 high, smooth, reddish, slender, very leafy. Leaves alternate, greeu,. entire, 

 glabrous, linear, rather acute, sessile, ^i inch long by iV~re ^^^^ broad fleshy, 

 flattened on face with a median groove, rounded on back. Inflorescence very 

 compact, terminal, of 6 to 12 flowers arranged on 1-2-flowered branches shorter 

 than the flowers, each bearing i or 2 leaf-like bracts. Flowers white, | inch long 

 by J inch across. Buds conical, acute. Calyx pale green, glabrous, segments 



