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 eiliate at e. E braets ciliat 
GALACACEAE | 1019 
.1. PYXIDANTHERA Michx. Evergreen plants with creeping stems and 
branches. Leaves numerous. Calyx-lobes broad and imbricate. Corolla white, 
persistent: lobes 5, rounded, spreading. Anthers in the sinuses of the corolla. 
Capsule subglobose.—Two species.—Spr.—PYXIE. FLOWERING-MOSS. 
Leaves bright-green: calyx-lobes obscurely ciliolate: corolla-lobes with suborbicular 
ips. u 1. P. barbulata. 
Leaves lanate, hence hoary: calyx-lobes ciliate: corolla-lobes l 
cuneate. 2. P. brevifolia. 
1. P. barbulata Michx. Plant forming a mat: leaf-blades linear, linear-ob- 
lanceolate, linear- ears or a ota: 0-8 mm. long, pubescent and 
calyx- 
3 
lobes 3.5—4 S 
tip, e ali Ser corolla 6-7 mm. Pde: lobes 
with suborbicular blades: capsule about 2.5 
mm. in diameter.—Pinelands, Coastal Plain, 
S. C. to N. J. 
2. P. brevifolia Wells. Similar to P di 
bulata in habit » but with the hoary clusters 
of leaves smaller : leaf- erage linear- bue 
linear, or linear- June eolate, 2-4 mm. long, 
lanate: qr copiously eee calyx-lobes 
about 3 mm. long, pink, ciliate: corolla 5-6 
mm. wide; lobes D cunea is o cap- 
sule ici smaller t eod 
lata.—Sandhills, e Ca Pisin N. C. 
Famity 7. GALACACEAE —Garnaxy FAMILY 
Perennial, evergreen, seapose herbs. Leaves alternate, but few and 
all basal: bla ides leathery, toothed. Flowers solitary or in a raceme. 
Calyx of 5 partly united persistent sepals. Corolla “of 5 partly united 
ree Androecium of 5 stamens alternating with 5 staminodia, all some- 
times partly united into a tube. Gynoecium of 3 n earpels, Fruit 
a 3-valved capsule.—Four genera, North American and 
Flowers large, solitary: anthers surpassing the staminodia. 1. SHERWOODIA. 
Flowers small, in a long raeeme: anthers surpassed by the 
inodi 2. GALAX. 
HERWOODIA House. Herbs with short caudices bearing few leaves, 
with phe long-petioled blades. Flower-stalks bearing few scales and a single 
flower. Staminodia very short. Style elongate 
[Shortia T. & G. not Raf.]—T wo species, the 
following and one Asiatic. 
l. S. galacifolia (T. & G.) House. Plan 
gregarious: leaf-blades oval or m M 
eapsule 5—6 mm. long, shorter than the s 
| Shortia galacifolia T. & G.]—(SHoRTIA 
OCONEE-BELLS. e FLOWER COLTSFOOT.)— 
Ravines and stream-banks, in acid humus, 
inner m t mud | Blue Ri idge, S. C. and N. 
C.—Rare.—Spr. 
