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832. VicCA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Pursh.— Stems none or short; leaves 

 narrowly linear, scarcely narrowed above the broad base, rigid, spiny- 

 pointed, nearly flat above, convex below, with very slender margined 

 fibres, I J^O-2^0 long; flowers spiked; petals broad-ovate, \%'-\%' 

 long; stigmas half as long as the ovary, sessile, erect; capsule cylin- 

 dric-ovate, thick, obtuse, short-pointed, dry, erect ; seeds very 

 thin, smooth, large, 5"- 7" in diameter, with a wide margin; albu- 

 men not ruminated. Flor, CoL, Port. &^ Coitt. 



Called by the Mexicans "Soap Weed." 



