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Family 78. MONOTROPACEAE. 



Indian-pipe Family. 

 Saprophytic or humus-plants, with mostly simple 

 leafless bracted scapes, and solitary or clustered perfect 

 regular flowers. Calyx free from the ovary, 2-6-parted, 

 the sepals deciduous. Petals united or distinct, or 

 rarely wanting. Stamens 6-12, hypogynous; filaments 

 distinct or united at base. Ovary superior, 1-6-celled; 

 style 1, simple; stigma capitate or slightly lobed. Ovule 

 numerous. Capsule terete or 4-6-lobed, locullcldally 

 4-6-valved ; seeds minute. 



1. SARCODES Torn Snow-Plant. 



Saprophytic herb, with stout fleshy bracted stems. 

 Flowers in a simple terminal raceme. Calyx of 5 oblong 

 erect sepals. Corolla cylindraceous-campanulate, 5- 

 lobed, persistent. Stamens 10, Included. Ovary 5- 

 lobed, 5-celled. Capsule fleshy. 



1. S. sanguinea Torr. Stems stout, reddish, 15-35 cm, high, 

 more or less glandular-pubescent, clothed with firm fleshy scales, 

 the upper narrower, passing into the linear bracts, these ciliate- 

 margined, exceeding the flowers; corolla cylindraceous-campanulate, 

 5-lobed, persistent; stamens 10, unappendaged; ovary 5-lobed, 5- 

 celled. 



Frequent in the coniferous forests of the San Antonio and San 

 Bernardino Mountains above 7000 feet. 



Family 79. ERICACEAE. Heath Family. 

 Shrubs, perennial herbs or trees, w^ith simple exstipu- 

 late leaves, and mostly perfect sympetalous or rarely 

 choripetalous flowers. Calyx free from the ovary, 4-5- 

 parted or 4-5-cleft, mostly persistent. Corolla regular 

 or rarely somewhat 2-lIpped and irregular, usually 4-5- 

 toothed, lobed or divided. Stamens hypogynous, usu- 

 ally as many or twice as many as the corolla-lobes; fila- 

 ments mostly separate; anthers 2-celled, attached to 

 the filament by the back or base, the sacks often pro- 

 longed above into tubes, dehiscent by terminal pores or 



