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acuminate) sepals, leads to the conjecture that the species is not wholly 

 distinct from the foregoing. 



# # Corolla ore contracta: folia marginihus hand revolutis pi. m. 

 serrulato- seu gland uloso-scabris : sepala lanceolata. 



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

 ever blue flowers, had better have the Pallassiau than the Linnoean 

 name continued, that having been generally adopted under Phyllodoce. 



Bryanthus Aleuticus (Menziesia Aleutica, Spreng., Bongard, 

 pro parte, Phyllodoce Pallassia?ia, Don) is known by the glabrous fila- 

 ments and (shorter, ochroleucous) corolla from 



Bryanthus glanduliflorus (Menzlesla glanduliflora, 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 aestivatione imbricatis. Stamina 10, glabra: antherae 

 didymae, aequales, extrorsum fei'e basifixae, loculis rima brevi a basi 

 versus medium extensa dehiscentibus, sub anthesi arete inverse in- 

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

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

 scobiformia, e nucleo undique longe producta linearia. Stylus primum 

 brevissimus, demum ovario plus diinidio brevior : stigma majuseulum, 

 depresso-capitatum. Herba spithamaea, brunnea, glabra, caule squamis 

 inferioribus ovatis imbricatis superioribus lanceolatis obtusis patent ibus 

 tecto, spica virgata multiflora, floribus brevissime pedicellatis patentibus 

 parvulis, superioribus bracteas lanceolato-lineares adaequantibus. 



Allotropa yirgata, 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 demijlora" The characters 

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

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

 in Pacif. R. R. Survey, 6, Bot. p. 81. It was then supposed (from 

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

 Mbnotropa, section Hypopilys ; but the character, it will be noticed, 

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



