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lour, and musky odour. Scafies clustered, 4—6 inches long, 

 invested with lanceolate scales, erect, simple, ant^ular. Sfiike 

 at first convolute, at length more erect, but the flowers droop- 

 ing and secund ; pedicels about half an inch lung. Corolla 

 large ; petals obovate-lanceolate, obtuse ; the 5 exterior with 

 a nectariferous cucullate base. Stamens \0; Jilaments pu- 

 bescent, shorter than the corolla, alternating at the base with 

 10 short recurved filiform processes; anthers 1 -celled, adnata 

 to the filaments on one side, opening outward their whole 

 length. Style nearly as long as the stamens, thick, hairy, 

 persistent ; stigma large, dilated, bearded beneath. Cufisule 

 superior, roundish, erect; dissepiments growing to the axis 

 towards the base, thus preventing the valves from expanding. 

 Hab. In woods, particularly where beech abounds j not un- 

 common. August. 



2. M. Hypopithys L. : scape bearing the flowers in a 

 spike ; scales and flowers smooth externally ; lateral flowers 

 with 8 stamens. IV ill d. Spec. II. p. 573. Smith Fl. 

 Brit. II. p. 440. Eng. Bot. t. SO. Mich. Fl. \. p. 266. 

 P ur s h Fl. 1. p. 303. Hypopithys europcea JV' u 1 1. Gen. 

 I. p. 271. 



Whole plant of a dingy yellow, half the size of the European 

 plant. jMic/i. 



Hab. Parasitic on the roots of beech and other trees, in shady 

 moist places. Canada to Pennsylvania. Pursh. In Penn- 

 sylvania. Muhlenberg. July. 



I have never seen undoubted North-American specimens of 

 this plant ; all that have come under my observation hitherto 

 being merely smoother varieties of M. lanuginosa. 



* * Scape \-fioioered. Monotropa. J^uttall. 



3. M. unijiora L. : scape straight, elongated, 1-flowered ; 

 flowers decandrous, erect or cernuous. fVilld. Spec. II. p. 

 573. Mich. Fl. I. p. 266. Pursh Fl. I. p. .303. £ /- 

 /ion SA:. I. p. 477. JVm/^ Gm. I. p. 271. Walt. Car. 

 p. 136. M. Morisoniana Big. Bost. p. 106. M. flore nu- 

 tante. Gron. Virg.Al. Cat est. Car, L t 36. Pluk, 

 Aim. t. 209. f. 2. 



Root roundish, composed of densely matted filaments. Whole 

 plant white, not musky. Scape 5 — 8 inches high, tiimple, suc- 

 culent ; scales oblong or lanceolate, scattered or approximate, 

 nerved. Flowers large, generally nodding, but frequently 

 erect. Petals 5, oblong or obovate. Stamens shorter than the 

 corolla; Jilaments pubescent, unequal, with 10 short recurved 

 processes at the base ; anthers horizontal, excentric, opening 

 by 2 linear transverse foramina. Style short; stigma large, 

 dilated, concave. Capsnle obtuse, pentangular, 5-celled, 



