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Waxy-white or flesh-colored (brown or black in age) perennial 
usually more or less clustered. Proper leaves none. Flowers solitary 
or several in a raceme, nodding. Sepals 2-5. Petals 3-6. Stamens 6-12, 
J¢Monotropa L. 
the enthers kidney-shaped, opening transversély. Ovary 3-5-chambered; sige 
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disc-shaped. Fruit a 5-5-chambered capsule. 
O Plants waxy-white, becoming black on drying; flowers 
4 solitary ; J Me uniflora 
O Plents flesh-colored or tinged with purple, becaning 
4 brown; flowers 10-20  -@. My Hypopitys 
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stems very rigid; leaves scale-like, thin, obovate, 1-1.5 om. long, sessile; 
flower solitary, nodding, surrounded by an involucre of scales; petals , 
obovate, about 1 cm. long, rounded=-truncate at the apex, pubescent within 
towards the base; stamens shorter than the pistil, the filaments puberulent 
anthers cream-color, 2 mm. wide} #he pistil ovoid, subequal to the petals, e 
the stigma concave, 5-lobed; capsules erect, broadly oval, splitting in the 
locules, 1 cm. long. 
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Occasional in the deep duff of shaded woods, often inthe protection of an 
old log. Orogrande Gre; Snow Cre; Priest R, Expe Staes Benton Cr, 
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A: Me Hypopitys L- Pinesap. Stems gregarious, deeply /seated in the 
duff, 15-30 cm. tall, or flesh-color 
when fresh, drying brown, the leaves scale-like, membranous, sessile and 
clasping, ovate, 8-12 mm. long, amitish; flowers nodding then erect, commonly 
sont C SEA. Pacem 5-6 cm. long pees ty—eriry restr —terebett petals oblong, 
10-11 mm. long, lightly saccate at the base, lightly involute, hispidulous on 
the outer surface, hairy within, the tips recurved; stamens 8-10, the 
equal to the sepals, hispidulous; ovary ovoid, 4<5 mn. long, hispiduious, pink, 
the style subequal in length, the stigma fringed, concave; capsule on pedicels 
at length 8-10 mm. long. 
Occasional in-the deep duff of shaded woods$ pretty but inconspicuous in 
its enviroment. Upper Priest Rey 3000 ft.; Osier Ridge, 4000 ft. 
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