14 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumE 29 
orbicular-ovate, the upper ones 1-1.5 cm. long, undulate or erose, the lower ones smaller; 
bracts shorter than the flowers; sepals mostly 9-11 mm. long, spatulate to cuneate, ciliate; 
petals cuneate to obovate, pubescent, ciliate; filaments 7~8 mm. long; capsules globose to 
ovoid-globose, 5.5—-7 mm. long. 
TYPE Locaurry: Bridger Mountains, Montana. 
DistRieution: Montana and British Columbia to California, New Mexico, and Mexico. 
5. Hypopitys fimbriata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 394. 1872. 
Plants red or yellowish, the stem 3 dm. tall or less, glabrous or pubescent with very short 
hairs; leaves various, the blades of the lower ones broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, more or 
less erose, the upper ovate or oblong-ovate, mostly 1-1.5 cm. long, erose-fimbriate; bracts 
commonly as long as the flowers or longer, fimbriate; sepals 10-11 mm. long, acute or acumi- 
nate, fimbriate above the claw-like base, ciliate; petals exceeding the sepals, cuneate and some- 
times dilated at the tip, pubescent, erose and ciliate; filaments 6-7 mm. long; style dilated 
upward; stigma funnelform; capsules ovoid, 5-6 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Oregon. 
DisTRIBUTION: Oregon. 
4. PTEROSPORA Nutt. Gen. 1: 269. 1818. 
Chestnut-colored or purplish-brown herbs with pubescent foliage. Stem simple. Leaves 
scale-like, elongate, mostly near the base of the stem, and there sometimes crowded. Flowers 
numerous, borne in elongate open racemes, nodding. Calyx of 5 slightly united sepals, the 
lobes relatively narrow. Corolla urceolate, marcescent, exceeding the calyx, the short lobes 
recurved. Stamens 10, included; filaments slender; anthers short, each sac with a deflexed 
awn, opening lengthwise. Ovary 5-celled, depressed; style stout; stigma peltate-capitate, 
slightly 5-lobed. Capsule much depressed, 5-lobed. Seeds very numerous, broadly winged 
at the apex. 
Type species, Pterospora andromedea Nutt. 
1. Pterospora andromedea Nutt. Gen. 1: 269. 1818. 
Monotropa procera Torr.; Eaton, Man. ed. 2. 324. 1818. 
Stem stout, 3-11 dm. tall, viscid-pubescent, arising from an enlarged underground base; 
leaves thick, the blades lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, approximate or crowded near the base 
of the stem, remote above, mostly 1-3.5 cm. long; raceme becoming virgate, erect, the bracts 
very narrow, often as long as the pedicels or longer; flowers not crowded; calyx 9-10 mm. 
broad, the lobes linear to lanceolate, glandular-pubescent; corolla white, 7-8 mm. long, the 
lobes ovate to reniform, very short and recurved; filaments subulate; anthers about 1 mm. 
long, the awns as long as the sacs or longer; capsules spheroidal, 8-12 mm. broad. 
Type Locality: Near Niagara Falls, Canada. 
DistRIBUTION: Prince Edward Island to Quebec and British Columbia, and southward to 
Pennsylvania, California, and northern Mexico. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Raf. Med. Fl. pl. 78; Lindl, Collect. #1. 5; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 41: f. 6; Britt. & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2737; ed. 2. f. 3208; M. E. Parsons, Wild Fl. Calif. 187. 
5. SARCODES Torr. Pl. Frém. 17. 1853. 
? Pterosporopsis Kellogg, Pacific. 9 Je 1854.—Curran, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 141. 1885. 
Red, usually bright-red herbs, with pubescent foliage. Stem simple. Leaves scale-like, 
broad and imbricate near the base of the stem, elongate and separated above. Flowers in. 
stout, short racemes, spreading or nodding, the bracts narrow, mostly exceeding the flowers. 
Calyx of 5 slightly united sepals, persistent, the lobes relatively narrow. Corolla campanulate, 
or cylindraceous-campanulate, usually exceeding the calyx, marcescent, the lobes broad, 
shorter than the tube, erect or slightly spreading. Stamens 10, included; filaments narrow, 
glabrous; anthers elongate, unappendaged, opening at the apex. Ovary slightly depressed, 
5-celled, 5-lobed; style columnar; stigma depressed-capitate, slightly 5-lobed. Capsule sphe- 
roidal, fleshy. 
Type species, Sarcodes sanguinea Torr. 
