178 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



fibrous roots, the bracts very densely imbricated at the base 

 of the peduncles, and, together with the preceding species, 

 the Pinesap is branded as a parasite by the loss of all leaves 

 and chlorophyll. 



PINE DROPS 



Pterospora Andromedea. Heath Family 



Stems: scape bracted, grooved, densely covered with viscid hairs. 

 Leaves: none, bracts lanceolate or linear, very numerous, crowded at 

 the base. Flowers: numerous, racemose. Fruit: capsule globose- 

 ovoid, tapering, with a reticulated broad wing. 



The roots of this parasitic plant are extremely astringent 

 and form a thick fibrous mass, often two feet in diameter. 

 The scape is brownish or purplish, grooved, and thickly 

 covered with sticky hairs. It stands from six inches to two 

 feet high, and the white, bell-shaped, nodding flowers grow 

 in a long, terminal, bracted raceme. The narrow bracts 

 are very crowded at the base of the scapes, and the whole 

 plant is clammy and glutinous. 



NEWBERRYA 



Newherrya congesia. Heath Family 



Stems: scapes four to eight inches high. Leaves: none, scales 

 crowded or loosely imbricated, obtuse. Flowers: greenish, brownish, 

 reddish, in a terminal cluster. Fruit: ovary ovate, contracted at the 

 apex into a long style, stigma depressed-capitate, umbilicate. 



An erect, low, fleshy, parasitic plant, with greenish, 

 brownish or reddish flowers growing in a terminal raceme. 

 The calyx is incomplete, of two bract-like, entire sepals, and 

 the corolla is tubular-urceolate, four to five lobed and per- 

 sistent. The whole plant is brownish and stands four to 

 eight inches high. The scales are thin, with slightly erose 



