72 FLORA OF THE UPPER SUSQUEHANNA. 



Broome county. Found in wet or dry soil in shade. Flowers 

 usually several together, white, nodding, on scaly stems from 

 a ball of fibrous rootlets ; capsules erect in fruit. The flowers 

 are usually plentiful after the first hard rain in July. 



HYPOPITYS Adans. 



H. Hypopitys (L.) Small. Pine-sap. False Bekchdrops. 

 Bird's-nest. Rare. Found under pine trees. Unadilla Forks, 

 Brown. Oxford, Coville. Franklin, Hoy. Brandt ; Bear Swamp, 

 Graves. Mt. Prospect, Clute. Ross Park, Millspaugh. Not 

 reported west of Broome county. Stems scaly, tawny or reddish, 

 bearing a cluster of several half-nodding, usually fragrant 

 flowers. Petals usually red ; essential organs yellow or orange. 

 August. {Monotropa HyPopitys L.) 



PRIMULACE/E. 



TRIENTALIS L. 



T. Americana Pursh. Chickweed-wintergreen. Star-flower. 

 Common in low, rich woods. Stem low, with a whorl of lance- 

 olate leaves at top; flowers two or three on slender pedicels, 

 white. May. 



STEIRONEMA Raf. 



S. ciliatum (L. ) Baudo. Cillvte Loosestrife. Common in 

 thickets, and along streams. Leaves on long, fringed petioles, 

 June. July. 



LYSIMACHIA L. 



L. quadrifolia L. Fuur-leaved Loosestrife. Whorled Loose- 

 strife. Common in thickets and open woods. Leaves two to 

 six, in whorls on the simple stem ; flowers yellow, on slender 

 peduncles from the axils of the leaves. June. 



L. terrestrJs (L.) B. S. P. Racemed Loosestrife. Very com- 

 mon on the borders of ponds, in swamps and on river shores. 

 Flowers numerous, yellow, on slender pedicels, in a long ter- 

 minal raceme. After blooming the plant produces an abun- 

 dance of bulblets in the axils of the leaves. June-Aug. (Z,. 

 stricta Ait.) 



