30 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumE 29 
2. Moneses reticulata Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8:271. 1843. 
Perennial, with a slender rootstock, in habit closely resembling the preceding; petioles 1-2 
cm, long; leaf-blades rounded-ovate, usually acute, 1-2.5 cm. long, rather coarsely dentate 
and strongly veiny; scape 5~10 cm. long, with a single elliptic bract, otherwise naked; sepals 
oval, 3 mm. long, rounded at the apex, ciliolate; petals white, about 1 cm. long, ovate, obtuse; 
anthers nearly 3 mm. long, slightly shorter than the filaments; tubes about 0:5 mm. long; 
capsule about 1 cm. in diameter, longer than the style. 
TYPE Locality: Shady fir woods of the Oregon [Columbia River]. 
DistTRIBUTION: Washington to Montana and Alaska. 
5. CHIMAPHILA Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 279. 1814. 
Pseva Raf, Jour. Phys. 89: 261. 1819. ? 
Chimaze R. Br.; DC. Prodr. 7: 775, asasynonym. 1839. 
Suffrutescent perennials, with creeping rootstocks. Stems branched. Leaves sub- 
verticillate, coriaceous, evergreen, short-petioled, usually serrate, dark-green and shining 
above, paler benéath, the veins more or less impressed on the upper surface. Flowers sub- 
umbellate, corymbose, or racemose. Sepals 5. Petals 5, white, rose-colored, or purplish. 
Stamens 10; filaments expanded into an ovate, obovate or suborbicular disk near the base, 
then curved upwards; anthers ventricose, inflated, attached near the middle; tubes distinct, 
rather long. Gynoecittm of 5 united carpels; ovary umbilicate, rounded, 5-lobed; style 
straight, almost none; stigma peltate, flat, 5-radiate but without papillae. Capsule 5-celled, 
depressed, ovoid or obovoid or globose, dehiscent from the apex, the sutures without threads. 
Type species, Pyrola maculata L. 
Bracts linear or subulate. 
Dilated portion of the filaments glabrous or merely ciliolate on the margin; 
leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, not mottled. 
Sepals fully as broad as long, mostly obtuse. 
Leaf-blades with rather indistinct lateral veins; pedicels ascending, 
not recurved; stem terete. 1. C. occidentalis. 
Leaf-blades with more prominent lateral veins; pedicels in anthesis 
spreading, recurved; stem more or less round-angled. 
Plant 1-2 cm. high; capsule 5—6 mm. in diameter. 
Dilated portion of the filaments obovate, ciliolate; pedicels 
glandular-granuliferous. 2. C. corymbosa. 
Dilated portion of the filaments ovate, not ciliolate; pedicels 
glabrous. 3. C. domingensis, 
Plant 2-3 em. high; capsule nearly 1 cm. in diameter. 4. C. mexicana. 
Sepals longer than broad, acute. 5. C. acuta. 
Dilated portion of the filaments villous; leaves lanceolate or ovate, more 
or less mottled. . 
Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, acuminate. 
Tubes of the anthers about 1 mm. long. 6. C. acuminata. 
Tubes of the anthers about 2 mm. long. 7. C. guatemalensis. 
Leaf-blades broadly lanceolate or ovate, acute. 
‘Tube about one fourth of the whole anther. 8. C. maculata, 
Tube about one third of the whole anther. 9. C. dasystemma. 
Bracts obovate. 10. C. Menziesii. 
1. Chimaphila occidentalis Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Chimaphila umbellata Alef. Linnaea 28: 78, in part. 1856. 
Suffruticose perennial; stem branched, 1-2 dm. high, often greenish, terete; leaves in 
verticils of 3-8, usually broadly oblanceolate, 2-7 cm. long, sharply serrate, except towards the 
base, acute, dark-green and very glossy above, yellowish-green beneath, the lateral veins almost 
obsolete; peduncles about 1 cm. long; inflorescence corymbose or racemose; bracts linear- 
subulate, deciduous; pedicels in flower ascending, rarely if at all recurved, in fruit erect; 
sepals broadly ovate, broader than long, obtuse, erose; petals oval, 5-6 mm. long, concave, 
ciliolate; dilated portion of the filaments ovate, ciliolate; anthers about 2.5 mm. long, attached’ 
slightly nearer the pore-bearing ends; stigma about half as broad as the ovary; capsule sub- 
globose, 6-7 mm. in diameter. 
Type collected in the valley of Pine Creek, near Farmington, Latah County, Idaho, June 28, 
1892, Sandberg, MacDougal & Heller 519 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Woods, from British Columbia to California, Colorado, and Montana. 
ILLUSTRATION: Brown & Schiffer, Alp. Fl. Can. 57 (as C. umbellata). 
