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sepiments from the middle of the valves; septa aiid 

 valves uniting towards the base, and coalescing with 

 the rcceptacular axis ; receptacle 5-lobed. Seeda very 

 numerous and minute, each fnrnished with a tf^rminal 

 wing. Nutt. Gen. I. p. 269. Nat. Ord. Mono- 

 TROPE/E Niii t. 



P. jindromedea Kutt. 1. c. Monotropa procera 

 T rrey in Eat. Man. Bot. cd. 2. p. 324. 



JRoot roundish, consisting of matted filaments, (annual, JVu tt.J 

 Every part of the plant, except tiie- corolla, covered with 

 brownish viscid hairs. Stem from a foot and a half to 2 feet or 

 more in height, simple, brownish red or purple, clothed to- 

 wards the base with lanceolate bracts, somewhat cylindric, sen- 

 sibly attenuated upward. Flowers numerous, (sometimes as 

 many as 80,) irregularly dispersed in a long raceme ; fieduncles 

 spreading equally around the stem, sometimes collected in 

 fascicles of 4 and 5 each, cylindrical, nutant, three-fourths of 

 an inch long, each subtended at the base by a longish linear 

 paleaceous bract. Calyx 5-parted ; segments ovate, nearly 

 half the length of the corolla, somewhat pubescentiy ciliate, 

 furnished witli obscure longitudinal nerves. Corolla monope- 

 talous, marcescent, ovate, open ; margin 5-tooihed, reflexed ; 

 dentures short-oval, obtuse, rosaceous; the rest of the corolla 

 white. Stamens 10, included ; filaments subulate, flat and 

 membranaceous, arising from the base of the germen ; anthers 

 small, 2-celled, traversed by, and inseparably connected with 

 the filaments, of an oboval form, attached by the margin, open- 

 ing inward from the base, or junction of the filaments, in a ho- 

 rizontal manner, or, in other words, in a contrary direction to 

 that of the filaments which support them. At the base of the 

 singular anther there is situated 2 small filiform processes 

 iiearly its lenglli, which have probably been applied to the 2 

 sutures of the anthers before opening ? Sixjle 1, short and co- 

 lumnar ; stigma capitate, obscurely 5-lobed. Cafisiile 5-celled, 

 subglobose ; valves 5, coalescing towards the base by their dis- 

 sepiments with the axis of the receptacle ; recefitacle 5-lobed ; 

 lobes long, alternating with the dissepiments, which arise from 

 the centre of the valves. Seeds extremely numerous and mi- 

 nute, globular-ovoid, acute at the base, sulcatc, terminated up- 

 ward by a dilated roundish reticulated membranaceous wing^ 

 which Is hyaline, and many times larger than the seed.f — 

 JVut (. 



Hab. In hard clayey soil, where there is little vegetation to be 



f From an external inspection of this minutest of seeds, we perceive 

 that the embryon, as the umbilicus, must be concentric, and probably sur- 

 rounded by a perisperm; but it may fairly be doubted whether this plant, 

 and Moyoxnoi-A. its coordinate, are not deprived gf cotyledons. .Yntt. 



