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acuminate) .>;epals, leads to the conjecture that the species is not wholly 

 distinct from the foregoing. 



* * Corolla ore contracta: folia marginibus hand revoliitis \)\. m. 

 serrulato- seu glanduloso^-scabiis : sepala lanceolata. 



Bryanthus TAXiFOLius, having rose-colored or purple, rarely if 

 ever blue flowers, had better have the Pallassian than the Linnajan 

 name continued, that having been generally adopted under Phyllodoce. 



Bryanthus Aleuticus (Menziesia Aleutica, Spreng., Bongard, 

 pro parte, Phyllodoce Pallassiana, Don) is known by the glabrous fila- 

 ments and (shorter, ochroleucous) corolla from 



Bryanthus gland uliflorus (Menziesia glanduUflora, Hook.), 

 which occurs in Sitcha. The former I have seen only from Unalaschka 

 and Alaska. 



ALLOTROPA, Torr. & Gray. ' 



Perigonium simplex, quam genitalia brevius, e phyllis (ut videtur 

 sepalis) 5 rotundatis jestivatione imbricatis. Stamina 10, glabra: anther* 

 didymae, fequales, extrorsum fere basifixjB, loculis I'ima brevi a basi 

 versus medium extensa dehiscentibus, sub anthesi arete inversai in- 

 trorsum pendulse, modo Pyrolce. Discus nullus. Ovarium globosum, 

 5-loculare : ovula in placentis axilibus innumera. Semina immatura 

 scobiformia, e nucleo undique longe producta linearia. Stylus primura 

 brevissimus, demum ovario plus dimidio brevior : stigma majusculum, 

 depresso-capitatum. llerba spithamtea, brunnea, glabra, caule squamis 

 inferioribus ovatis imbricatis superioribus lanceolatis obtusis patentibus 

 tecto, spica virgata multiflora, floribus brevissime pedicellatis patentibus 

 parvulis, superioribus bracteas lanceolato-lineares adaequantibus. 



Allotropa virgata, Torr. & Gray, in Bot. Wilkes Exped. ined. 

 A single and imperfect specimen was collected by Dr. Charles Pick- 

 ering on the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. We now have it from 

 Mr. Bolander (in the usual excellent specimens which he is accustomed 

 to prepare), collected in Mendocino County, between Little Bear Har- 

 bor and Noyo, " generally near Quercus deiisijiora." The characters 

 of the proposed genus are briefly sketched in a synopsis of the known 

 genera of MonotrofexB which I contributed to Prof. Newberry's Report, 

 in Pacif. R. R. Survey, 6, Bot. p. 81. It was then su})posed (from 

 the examination of a single flower-bud) to be nearly related to 

 Monotro'pa, section Hypopltys ; but the character, it will be noticed, 

 lias now to be entirely recast, and the genus claims its relationship to 



