Part 1, 1914] MONOTROPACEAB 15 
1. Sarcodes sanguinea Torr. Pl. Frém. 18. 1853. 
? Plerosporopsis sonoraénsis Kellogg, Pacific. 9 Je 1854.—Curran, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 141. 1885. 
Stem stout, 1-5 dm. tall, viscid-pubescent, somewhat thickened at the base; leaves thick, 
the blades ovate and mostly 2-8 cm. long at the base of the stem, lanceolate and linear and 
elongate above, all glandular-ciliate; raceme very thick, several- to many-flowered, mostly 
less than one half the length of the stem, the bracts similar to the upper leaves, but narrower, 
crowded or approximate; calyx-lobes linear, linear-oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, 11~15 mm. 
long, sometimes somewhat accrescent, glandular-pubescent; corolla 1-1.5 cm. long, glabrous, 
the lobes rounded, undulate; filaments subulate; anthers linear-oblong, 3-4 mm. long; cap- 
sules spheroidal, 9-21 mm. broad. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY: Valley of the Sacramento, probably on the Yuba River. 
DistRiBuTION: Coniferous woods, Oregon, California, and western Nevada. 
ILLustRations: Torr. Pl. Frém. gl. 10; Chatin. Anat. "al. 55; M.E. Parsons, “Wild FI. Calif. 363. 
6. MONOTROPSIS Schw.; Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 478. 1817. 
Schweiniizia Ell.; Nutt. Gen. Add. 3. 1818. 
Purplish or brownish herbs, with glabrous foliage. Stemsimple. Leaves scale-like, mostly 
scattered, those at the base of the stem approximate and broad, those on the upper part of 
the stem remote. Flowers in a dense terminal spike or raceme which is nodding at least at 
the tip. Sepals 5, somewhat shorter than the corolla, or longer, persistent. Corolla cam- 
panulate, persistent, the 5 lobes shorter than the tube or longer, the tube 5-saccate at the base. 
Stamens 10, included; filaments slender; anthers short, didymous, the sacs unappendaged, 
opening by terminal pores. Ovary short, usually ovoid, 5-celied; style short and stout; 
stigma disk-like, slightly lobed, Capsule of an ovoid type, included in the persistent 
perianth. 
Type species, Monotropsis odorata Ell. 
Corolla in anthesis about as long as the calyx or shorter, colored. ; 
Corolla-lobes much shorter than the tube: calyx and corolla about equal in 
length. 1. M. odorata. 
Corolla-lobes about as long as the tube: calyx about twice as long as the 
corolla. 2. M. Lehmaniae. 
Corolla in anthesis about twice as long as the calyx, white. 3. M. Reynoldsiae. 
1. Monotropsis odorata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 479. 1817. 
Schweinitzia odorata Raf. Am. Mo. Mag. 3:99. 1818. 
Schweinitzia caroliniana G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 867. 1834. 
Plants 5-11 cm. tall, the stems usually clustered, purple or purplish-brown; leaves mostly 
3-8 mm. long, the blades deltoid-ovate to ovate, obtuse or acute; flowers violet-scented; 
sepals oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8-12 mm. long, mostly acute or acutish, membranous in 
age; corolla pink, about equal to the calyx in length, the lobes ovate, much shorter than the 
tube. 
TYPE LocaLity: Stokes County, North Carolina. 7 
DISTRIBUTION: Maryland to rane Leung and Alabama. 
ILLusTRATIONS: Mem. Am. Acad. II. 3: pl. 2; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fi. f. 2738; ed. 2. f. 3209; 
Lounsberry, S. Wild F1. pl. 178. 
2. Monotropsis Lehmaniae Burnham, Torreya 6: 235. 1906. 
Plants 4-10 cm. tall, the stems mainly brownish-purple; leaves mostly 2-6 mm. long, the 
blades ovate, often very broadly so at the base of the stem, obtuse or acute; flowers not 
fragrant; sepals narrowly oblong to linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 7-8 mm. long, or 
slightly broadened upward, mostly obtuse or obtusish, membranous in age; corolla mainly 
pink, much shorter than the calyx, the lobes as long as the tube or nearly so. 
TyPEH LOCALITY: Roaring Gap, Blue Ridge, North Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Western North Carolina. 
