108 PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Several of the species are certainly but little removed from 

 each other, if they are more than varieties. 



MONOTROPA. L. 10. 1. 



As the flowers mostly turn down, or are nodding, the plants are 

 named from the Greek, to turn one icay. There is no green her- 

 bage to them, but they are white, or yellowish, or rather light 

 colored. 



J\I. unijlora. L. Tobacco Pipe ; the form of which, and 

 color, it greatly resembles, though its stem is rather short, white, 

 4 inches high, with small, sessile, and white leaves or scales ; 

 flowers single, large, commonly nodding ; shady woods ; June. 

 Changes to a dark color in drying ; is a singular and handsome 

 plant. 



tM. lanuginosa. Mx. Pine Sap. Resembles the preceding, 

 but its flowers are along the stem, and several, and the stem, 4-6 

 inches long, is sometimes branched, and always scaly, and some- 

 what hairy or woolly ; is enlarged under ground, and covered 

 with scales, and its numerous radicles descend into the earth. 

 By many the plant is considered a parasytic, deriving nourishment 

 by its roots from the roots of other plants. 



ORDER 174. CAMPANULACE^. The Bell-Flower 



Tribe. 



This order has a 1 -leafed calyx united to the rudiment of the 

 seed-vessel, and a 1-petalled corolla on the calyx, with as many 

 stamens rising from the calyx as there are divisions of the corolla; 

 ovary superior ; leaves commonly alternate ; plants yield a white 

 milk. Belong chiefly to the northern parts of the earth ; beauty 

 is their chief property. 



Campanula. L. 5. 1. Bell Flower. 



Named from the resemblance of the flower to a small bell. 

 More than 110 species have been described, though only 3 appear 

 in this State ; all yield beautiful flowers, grow in the borders of 



