76 Eastrwoop: SoME NEW SPECIES OF CALIFORNIAN PLANTS 
in a densely-flowered erect spike, terminating the erect stem, con- 
taining about 15 flowers ; bracts similar to the leaves, but narrower, 
the upper ones becoming spatulate with broad, short petioles ; ter- 
minal flower first in bloom, with 5 petals and sepals and Io stamens ; 
lower flowers with 4 petals, 2-4 sepals and 8 stamens: sepals 
rhomboidal oblanceolate or linear, keeled, the blade when present 
about as long as the claw, altogether 12 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, 
margin slightly erose, outer surface glabrous, inner sparingly hairy : 
petals oblong-obovate, 12 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, densely hairy 
within, saccate at base, the sac containing nectar, lower margin 
ciliate, upper erose and sometimes slightly cleft on one side: 
stamens linear, ribbon-like, woolly, most densely so under the 
anthers, alternately long and short, 6-7 mm. long, .5 mm. wide, 
without any dilation at base; anthers bright red, shaped like a 
strawberry, opening by two equal slits on each side ; pollen white: 
ovary 4—5-lobed, with each lobe obtusely 2-ribbed ; style thick, as 
long as the ovary, densely woolly, especially below the yellow de- 
pressed-capitate stigma which is hairy at the center and around 
the viscid yellow outer rim. 
The entire plant, except the red anthers and yellow stigma, 15 
pure white and without any odor, except an earthy smell like 
a fungus. 
Its erect habit at once distinguishes it from Monotropa Hypopitys 
to which it is most closely allied. The stamens seem different from 
those of other species of Monotropa, judging by the figures and de- _ a 
scriptions. These were probably made from dried specimens 
and perhaps from stamens from which the pollen had beef 
discharged. 
This species was found on a hillside bordering Little Carsom 
Creek, in Marin county, California. The hill was covered with a 
dense growth of small trees of Quercus densiflora. Clintonia An- 
drewstana was abundant and occasional specimens of Coralorhisa 
Ligelovi and C. multiflora were found near by. The first specimen 
(in bud) was found on May 12th. This was a solitary plant. On 
May 30th a clump of five plants was found in the same neighbor- 
hood, but no more have ‘been seen though searched for dili- 
gently. 
Unless the anthers are peculiar, this belongs to the section 
Hypopitys, which is considered a distinct genus by some botanists. 
Type in the herbarium of the California Academy of Scr 
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