50 LENNOACEiE. * Monolropa. 



the petals : the latter saccate at base : anthers more reuiform ; the cells completely 

 confluent into one, which opens by very unequal valves, the larger broad and 

 spreading, the other remaining erect and contracted : style longer : stigma glan- 

 dular or hairy on the margin. — HypopitijS, Dill., Scop., &c. 



M. Hypopitys, L. A span or at length a foot high, tawny or flesh-colored : scales and 

 bracts entire or slightly erose : flowers less than half inch long ; the lateral 4-petalous and 

 8-androus. — Lam. III. t. 3G2 ; Fl. Dan. t. 2.S2 ; Schk. Handb. t. 316; Reichenb. Ic. Germ, 

 t. 1152. M. lanuginosa, Michx. ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 457, t. 72. Hijpopiti/s lutea, Dill. //. niul- 

 tijlora, Scop. H. Europiva & H. lumujinosa, Nutt. Gen. i. 271. — Under amentaceous and 

 coniferous trees, Canada to Florida and Louisiana, west to Oregon and Br. Columbia. 

 (]Mcx., Japan to Eu.) 



M. fimbriata, Gray. Near a foot in height : obovate-cuneate upper scales and bracts 

 and spatulate sepals laciniatcly or eroscly fimbriate : lateral flowers conmionly 3-petalous 

 and G-androus. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 029, & Bot. Calif, i. 463. — Cascade Mountains in 

 Oregon, E. Hall. (Mistaken for Plewicos/iom Jimbriolata in Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 394.) 



33. PLEURICOSPORA, Gray. (nievQi-Aog, at the side, and ajtoQa, seed, 

 alluding to the parietal jjlacentation.) — A single known species. 



P. fimbriolata, Gray. Light brown or whitish plant, with the aspect of ]\[onntropa Hif- 

 popiti/s, but stouter, a span high, glabrous or nearly so, clothed with imbricated scales : 

 lowest scales ovate, firm, entire ; upper passing into the narrower and lanceolate scarious- 

 margined and lacerate-fringed bracts of the dense and erect cylindraceous spike: corolla 

 white or whitish, not exceeding the bracts, barely half inch long. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 

 369, & Bot. Calif, i. 463 (not of Proc. Am. Acad. viii. .394, which is Hlonotropa Jimhriata). — 

 California, in the Mariposa grove of Sequoia (jiijanlca, Bolander. 



34. NEWBERRY A, Torr. (Dedicated to the discoverer, Professor J. S. 

 Newberry, a geologist and naturalist, much devoted to fossil botany.) — Benth. & 

 Hook. Gen. ii. 600. A single species. 



N. COngesta, Torr. Plant brownish, glabrous, a span high : scales crowded or loosely 

 imbricated, oval or oblong, thinnish, with obscurely erose margins ; the upper forming 

 similar bracts of the somewhat depressed head of numerous flowers : corolla hardly' half 

 inch long ; its lobes within and the style hairy. — Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. 55 ; Gray, Bot. Calif. 

 i. 464. Jlemitomes congestam. Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. vi. 81, t. 12 ; char, and figure incorrect as 

 to the anthers, and the name inapplicable. — Cascade Mountains, in Des Chutes Valley, 

 S. Oregon, Newberry. Washington Territory, station unknown, George Gibhs. 



Order LXXVIII. LENNOACE^. 



Root-parasitic leafless herbs, scaly and fleshy, with much the aspect of Mono- 

 tropece, but with stamens inserted in or near the throat of the tubular corolla, 

 and the polymerous ovary peculiar, the cells being at least double the number 

 of the other parts of the 5-10-merous regular and perfect flower, and uniovnlate ; 

 the fruit drupaceo-polycoccous. Sepals 5 to 10, linear or filiform. Corolla hypo- 

 gynous, tubular or slightly funnelform, marcescent, 5-8-lobed, the lobes plicate- 

 imbricated in the bud. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and alternate with 

 them: filaments very short: anthers 2-celled, introrse ; the cells opening longi- 

 tudinally: pollen simple, 3-sulcate. Disk none. Ovary depressed-globose, 12- 

 28-celled (doubtless of half as many 2-locellate carpels, surrounding a thick axis) : 

 style slender : stigma crenulate or somewhat lobed. Ovule horizontal, anatropous 

 or somewhat amphitropous ; the orifice superior. Fruit depressed-globular, with 



