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longer than the ample lobes, slightly glandular: stamens (chiefly 5) and style long- 
exserted. (Azalea nudiflora L.)—A species of the Atlantic and Gulf States, extend- 
ing into Texas, and reported as far west as Tom Green County (Tweedy). 
3. MONOTROPA L. (INDIAN PIPE, PINE-SAP.) 
Low and fleshy (tawny, reddish, or white) herbs parasitic on roots or 
saprophytic, with scales in place of leaves, one to several flowers, decid- 
uous calyx of 2 to 5 lanceolate bract-like scales, 4 or 5 separate erect 
spatulate scale-like petals which are gibbous or saccate at base and 
tardily deciduous, 8 or 10 stamens with awl-shaped filaments, kidney- 
shaped anthers becoming 1-celled and opening across the top, columnar 
style with disk-like 4 or 5-rayed stigma, and an ovoid 8 to 10-grooved 4 
or 5-celled loculicidal pod with innumerable minute seeds covering the 
very thick placentae. 
1. M. uniflora L. (INDIAN PIPE. CORPSE PLANT.) Smooth, waxy-white (turn- 
ing blackish in drying), 1-flowered inodoroua plant, 7.5 to 20 em. high: calyx of 
2 to 4 irregular scales or bracts: anthers transverse, opening equally by 2 chinks: 
style short and thick; stigma naked.—Damp woods, throughout the continent. 
2. M. Hypopitys L. (PInE-sap. FaLsE BEECH-DROPS.) Somewhat pubescent or 
downy, tawny, whitish, or reddish commonly fragrant plants, 10 to 30 em. high: 
flowers several in a scaly raceme; the terminal one usually 5-merous, the rest 3 or 
4-merous: bract-like sepals mostly as many as the petals; anthers opening by acon- 
tinuous line into 2 very unequal valves: style longer than the ovary, hollow; stigma 
ciliate: pod globular or oval.—Under amentaceous and coniferous trees. 
PLUMBAGINEZR. (LEADWORT FAMILY.) 
Herbs, with regular 5-merous flowers, a plaited calyx, 5-stamens op- 
posite the separate petals or lobes of the corolla, and a free 1-celled 
ovary with a solitary ovule hanging from a long cord which rises from 
the base of the cell. 
1. STATICE Tourn. (SEA-LAVENDER. MARSH-ROSEMARY. ) 
Seaside or salt-marsh perennials, with thick and stalked radical 
leaves, naked flowering stems or scapes branched into panicles with 
the flowers scattered or loosely spiked and 1-sided on the branches, 
funnelform dry and membranaceous persistent calyx, 5 nearly or quite 
distinct petals with long claws to the bases of which the 5 stamens are 
severally attached, 5 (rarely 3) separate styles, and a membranous and 
indehiscent fruit in the bottom of the calyx. 
1. 8. Limonium L. Root thick and woody, very astringent: leaves oblong, spat- 
ulate or obovate-lanceolate, 1-ribbed, tipped with a deciduous bristly point, petioled: 
scape much-branched, corymbose-panicled, 3 to 6 dm. high: spikelets 1 to 3-flow- 
ered: flowers lavender-color: calyx-tube hairy on the angles, the lobes ovate-trian- 
gular, with as many teeth in the sinuses.—A cosmopolitan species, represented in 
southwestern Texas by var. CALIFORNICA Gray, with thinnish, retuse or obtuse, 
pointless leaves, branches of the ample panicle densely flowered at summit, and 
spikelets almost imbricated in short cymose spikes. On the coast of Texas is var. 
CAROLINIANA Gray, with more erect branches, rather panicled inflorescence with at 
length scattered flowers, and very acute or acuminate calyx-lobes. 
