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Lindl. by the larger flowers, longer pedicels, which usually exceed the sub- 

 tending bract, and by the larger fruit and seed. In the mature specimens 

 the capsules are erect and disposed on arcuate-ascending pedicels, so that 

 the fruiting raceme is 4 to s''™ in diameter instead of 2 to 3*^"^ as in C esculenta. 

 From C. Leichtlinii Watson, to which Suksdorf's no. 509 was referred, C. 

 Suksdorfii differs in the color of the flowers, the less sharply triangular, thin- 

 ner, and less conspicuously nerved capsule. The seeds, moreover, in C 

 Suksdorfii are longer and have a more bluish luster than in C. Leichtlinii, — 

 J. M. Greenman, Gray Herbarium. 



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