THE PLANT WORLD 213 



BRIEFER ARTICLES. 



The Snow Plant. 



Although the wierd but beautiful Indian pipe is known to almost 

 every child who frequents the August woods, fewer people have seen its 

 blood-red relative Sarcodes sangiiinea, the California and Nevada snow 

 plant. Several of these growths, sent from Washoe Valley, Nevada to 

 New York came in excellent condition, neither faded nor shriveled by 

 their long journey. I was fortunate enough to receive one which was 

 larger in every way than the California type. The stem was over fif- 

 teen inches high, one and a half inches thick, of a flesh pink color, 

 glandular pubescent, and thickly clothed witli small fleshy scales, the 

 lower ones ovate and closely imbricated, the upper gradually more 

 scattered, narrower, passing into linear bracts which mostly exceed the 

 flower, their margins glandular ciliate. The brilliant red flower is 

 thicker and larger than that of the Indian pipe, and instead of a single 

 flower, there are upwards of seventy-five growing in circles around the 

 stem, five or six in a circle. The flesh-colored pedicel one and a half 

 inches long, at first erect, then drooping, diminishes in length as it ap- 

 proaches the apex. The calyx consists of five oblong, erect, hairy, per- 

 sistent sepals, divided almost to the base. The corolla is cylindrical- 

 campanulate; stamens ten, included, glabrous; filaments slender; an- 

 thers linear-oblong, attached to the outside a little above the base, not 

 appendaged, the two cells united throughout, and with a very narrow 

 connective, opening by the whole obliquely truncate apex; ovary five 

 lobed, five celled; style columnar; stigma capitate, slightly five lobed; 

 capsule fleshy, the thick placentae adnate to the axis their whole length; 

 seeds ten, oval. 



Sarcodes does not turn black on being touched as is the case wdth 

 the Indian pipe, and when dried loses but little of its brilliant color. 

 It is usually found in coniferous forests, especially of Sequoia and 

 Abies through the Sierra Nevada at an altitude of from four thousand 

 to'nine thousand feet, shooting forth and flowering as soon as the snow 

 melts. It is also occasionally found at quite a distance from fir or 

 pine. — Pauline Kaufman, New York Cit}'. 



Double Trilliums. 



The article by Mr, Holzinger in the July issue of The Plant World 

 on the subject of a green trillium in which the various organs of the 



