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A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but withfleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho,Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains andriver. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.
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