Ruddy flesh-colored saprophy%es without proper leaves, 
numerous in slongated racemes, 
2. Pterospora Nutt. 
Sepals de 
Pine Yrops, 
Flowers 
.etals united into a globose 
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corolla with 5 short lobes, Stamens 10, included, the anthers longitudinally 
dehiscent. Ovary o-chambered, forming a 5evalved capsule, 
le Pe. Andromeda Hutte 
Roots densely matted, forming balls, the stems rigid, 
reddish and wand-like, 20-90 cm, tall, lesfless or with a few scarious 
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scales 1-5 cm. long at the base, very glandular and viscid above; racemes 
comaonly 20-50 cm. long, the flowers nodding, on recurved pedicels 1-1,5 
em, long, 
calyx-lobes purplish-red, lanceolate, obtuse, 4 mm. long; corolla sordid@> 
the bracts brownish, linear, 8-10 ma, long, their margins glandular; 
white or flesh-color, ovoid, 7-5 ita, long, the lobes 2-2,5 ma, long, recurved; 
stamens subecual to the 
filaments filiform, the 
longs; style 2 ma, long, 
in diametere 
Mile 
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globose 10-lobed ovary and appressed to it, the 
anthors tailed at the base, the appendages 1 m1, 
the stigma capitates capsule flattenedglobose, 12 
Freacnt in the duif of shaded woods, 
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