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later ones, narrowed at the base. Petals as many as the sepals, but longer and broader, saccate, 
and often also auricled at the base, often pubescent. Stamens 10, or 6 or 8, included; filaments 
slender, often pubescent; anthers short, often reniform, sometimes apiculate, opening by a 
continuous line into 2 very unequal valves. Ovary 4- or 5-celled, or sometimes 3-celled, globose 
to ovoid, lobed; style short or elongate, columnar; stigma disk-like or funnel-form, obscurely 
lobed. Capsule ovoid to oblong, erect or spreading. 
Type species, Monotropa Hypopitys L. 
Bracts and sepals ciliate or eciliate. 
Flowers small; petals less than 1 cm. long in anthesis; plants slender. 
Style columnar; stigma discoid. 
Stigma not retrorsely bearded; style sparingly pubescent; sepals and 
petals with short cilia. 1. H. americana. 
Stigma retrorsely bearded; style copiously pubescent; sepals and 
petals with long cilia. 2. H lanuginosea. 
Style much dilated upward; stigma funnelform. 3. H, brevis. 
Flowers large; petals more than | cm. long in anthesis; plants stout. 4. H. latisquama. 
Bracts and sepals fimbriate. 5. H. fimbriata, 
1. Hypopitys americana (DC.) Small, Fl. SE. U.S. 880. 1903. 
Hypopitys multifiore americana DC. Prodr. 7: 780. 1839. 
Plants lemon-yellow, or sometimes pink, the stem finely pubescent or nearly glabrous, 
1-3 dm. tall, rather slender; leaves mostly 1 cm. long or less, the blades ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late at the base of the stem, narrowly ovate, lanceolate, or rhombic above; bracts shorter than 
the flowers; sepals mostly 6-8 mm. long in anthesis, spatulate to rhombic-spatulate or ob- 
lanceolate, short-ciliate; petals cuneate to oblong-cuneate, finely and sparingly pubescent, 
short-ciliate; filaments 6-8 mm. long; capsules mostly globose to spheroidal, 5-9 mm. long, 
usually short-pedicelled. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Canada. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Ontario and New York, and southward, especially in and near the mountains, 
to North Carolina. 
ILLUSTRATION: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2. f. 3211. 
2. Hypopitys lanuginosa (Michx.) Nutt. Gen. 1:271. 1818. 
Monotropa lanuginosa Michx. F1, Bor, Am. 1: 266. 1803. 
Plants deep-pink or crimson, or rarely pale, the stem pubescent, usually copiously so, 
0.5-3.5 dm. tall, rather slender; leaves mostly less than 1 em. long, the blades suborbicular or 
ovate near the base of the stem, ovate, oval, or oblong above; bracts as long as the flowers or 
shorter; sepals 6-7.5 mm. long in anthesis, cuneate, spatulate, or narrowly elliptic-spatulate, 
long-ciliate; petals cuneate to almost oblong, pubescent, often densely so, long-ciliate; fila- 
ments 7-8 mm. long; capsules mostly oval to oblong, 4-6 mm. long, usually pedicelled. 
TYPE LocaLity: North Carolina. . 
DistRIBUTION: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, and southward to Florida and 
Louisiana. 
InLusTRations: Torr. Fl. N. Y. gl. 72; Britt. & Brown, -Ill. Fl. ed. 2. f. 3212. 
3. Hypopitys brevis Small, sp. nov. 
Plants apparently tawny, the stem finely pubescent, about 1 dm. tall, rather slender; 
leaves ovate, often broadly so, the blades of the upper ones less than 1 cm. long, the lower 
ones smaller than the upper; inflorescence congested, the bracts mostly shorter than the 
flowers; sepals oblong-cuneate, 5-7 mm. long, ciliate; petals cumeate, pubescent, ciliate; 
filaments 4-5 mm. long; stigma funnelform; capsules not seen. 
Type collected in Independence’ Valley, Cascade Mountains, Oregon, August, 1892, Moses 
Craig 5214, in part (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
Distrisution: Washington and Oregon. 
4. Hypopitys latisquama Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 40: 461. 1913. 
Hypopitys lutea Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 429. 1901. Not H. lutea S. F. Gray, 1821. 
Plants yellowish, pink, or coral-red, the stem usually pubescent, sometimes only slightly 
so, 1-4 dm. tall, rather stout; leaves thick, the blades mostly ovate, usually broadly so, or 
