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very minute, mimerous. — Smooth perennial herbs, with creeping roots, and 

 evergreen radical leaves. Flowers commonly white, nodding, in a simple raceme 

 at the summit of the nearly naked scape. 



1. P. rotundifolia, L. Leaves orbicular, thick, nearly entire, shorter 

 than the petioles ; racemes many-flowered ; stigma 5-crenatc. — Dry woods in 

 the mountains, Georgia, and northward. June and July. — Scape 1° high. 



16. CHIMAPHILA, Pursh. Prince's Pine. 



Caly.x: .5-cleft. Petals 5, spreading, deciduous. Stamens 10, the filaments 

 dilated in the middle : anthers somewhat 4-celled, opening by terminal pores, 

 inverted in the bud. Stigma broad, 5-crenate, nearly sessile. Capsule globose, 

 opening from the apex downward ; the sutures naked. — Low creeping ever- 

 greens, with erect branches, lanceolate serrate whorled leaves, and whitish 

 umbellate nodding flowers on long peduncles. 



1. C. umbellata, Nutt. Leaves wedge-lanceolate, narrowed at the base, 

 serrate above the middle, not S]X)tted ; umbels 4-7-flowered ; filaments smooth. 

 — Open woods, North Carolina, and northward. June. — Branches 6' - 10' high. 

 Leaves glossy. 



2. C. maculata, Pursh. Leaves lanceolate, broad at the base, toothed- 

 serrate throughout, blotched with white ; umbels 2 - 5-flowered ; filaments vil- 

 lous below. — Dry open woods in the middle and upper districts, Mississippi, 

 and northward. June. — Smaller than the preceding. 



17. SHORTIA, Gray. 



Calyx 5-sepalous, scale-like, imbricated in the bud. Capsule shorter than the 

 calyx, nearly globose, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Placenta large, central. 

 Seeds small, numerous. Embryo terete, straight, shorter than the albumen. 

 Style filiform, somewhat persistent. Corolla and stamens unknown. — A 

 smooth perennial nearly stemless herb. Leaves roundish, subcordate, crenate. 

 serrate, long-petioled. Scape scaly-bracted towards the summit, l-flowered. 



1. S. galacifolia, Gray. — High mountains of Carolina, Michaux. 



Suborder IV. JWONOTROPE^. The LvDiAX-riPE Family. 



18. SCHWEINITZIA, Ell. 



Calyx of 5 sepals, persistent. Corolla persistent, bell-shaped, 5-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 10: anthers shorter than the filaments, fixed near the apex, awnless; the 

 cells opening at the apex. Style short and thick : stigma large, 5-anglcd. 

 Capsule ovoid, .5-celled. Seeds very numerous. — Stem low (3'- 4'), smooth, 

 brownish, scaly. Spike several-flowered. Flowers flesh-colored, odorous. 



1. S. odorata, Ell. — Shady woods, North Carolina, and northward, 

 rare. April. — Parasitic on the roots of herbs. Flowers nodding. 



