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larly cymose: peduncles terminal or rarely and tardily somewhat lat- 
eral ; pedicels elongated, unequal, erect; the lowest often more or less 
distinctly axillary: sepals oblong-lanceolate: capsule exceeding the 
calyx, acutish, dark and shining; seeds very smooth. — Edinb. Phil. 
Journ. vi. 327; Hook. FI. Bor.-Am. i. 95; Torr. & Gray, vars. a, B, 
and y, Fl. i, 184; Fenzl, 1. c. i. 386. S. palustris, Richardson, 
Frankl. Journ. 738. S. stricta, Richardson, Frankl. 2d Journ. 19. 
S. leta, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 169. S. glauca, Meyer, Pl. 
Lab. 93. SS. crassifolia, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 38. S. longifo- 
lia, Rothr. Enum. Pl. Cent. Col. 35. ? Micropetalon gramineum, 
James, Cat. 181.— A variable species marked by its long dark- 
colored acutish capsule and very smooth seeds. It is widely distributed 
from Maine to Arctic America, and from Alaska (Siberia) southwar 
along the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and on the Pacific slope ® 
San Bernardino, Parish. The commoner form has acute sepals an 
leaves varying imperceptibly from flaccid and spreading to erect and 
somewhat pungent. (Var. 8 of Torr. & Gray, FI. i. 185. S. stricta, 
Richardson, etc.) The typical form with spreading leaves and “very 
obtuse” sepals is comparatively rare. The following, although wii 
best marked varieties, are connected by innumerable puzzling inte 
mediate forms. 
Var. leeta, Warts. Low, smooth or somewhat pubescent, 
inches in height, usually very glaucous, densely leafy at the base 
leaves carinate, lanceolate-subulate to linear, rather rigid, erec 
lines long, shorter than in the type, narrower than in the following: — 
Bibl. Index, 112. S. /eta, Richardson, Frankl. Journ. 738 ; Hook. 1 
Parry’s 2d Voyage, 300, & Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 96. S. stricta, val 7; 
Hook. 1. c. i. 96. S. longipes, var. 6, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. ste 
Arctic America to the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming 
to Gasne, Allen. (Siberia.) A very similar form has been found of 
the coast of New Brunswick, Fowler. The variety PEDUNCULARIS 
Fenzl is a boreal form somewhat intermediate between this variety 
and the next, and indefinitely characterized by still more elong* 
pedicels, 
Var. Edwardsii, Wats. Low, smooth or pubescent: z 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or even ovate, shorter than in the ty af 
stems usually but 2-3-flowered; the lower peduncles axillary; mue 
longer than the others. — Bibl. Index, 113. S. Edwardsii, R- fe 
in Parry’s Ist Voy. 271, 308; Cham. & Schlecht. Linnea, i. 4% 
leaves 
Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 96, t. 31; Hornem. Fl. Dan. xiii. e 3 3 
S. nitida, Hook. in Scoresb. Greenl. 411; Cham. & Schlecht. * 
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