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MONESEIS 



lines broad; calyx-lobes short, ovate, or triangular-ovate, acute or obtuse: pet- 

 als very obtuse, greenish-white: stamens declined; anthers distinctly contract- 

 ed below the openings, with distinctly beaked tips: style declined, and toward 

 the apex curved upward, longer than the petals. In dry woods. Idaho to 

 Brit. Columbia and the northern States. 



P. elliptica Nutt. Gen. i, 273. Scapes 6-10 inches high, loosely 7-16- 

 flowered : leaves elliptic to oval, 1-2 inches long, acute or merely roundish at 

 base, plicate-crenulate with very low teeth, membranaceous, dark green, 

 longer than their petioles: calyx-lobes ovate-triangular, acute or acuminate, 

 about one fourth as long as the greenish-white, obtuse petals: stamens declin- 

 ed: anther-tips hardly if at all beaked: style declined, and toward the apex 

 curved upward, exserted. In rich, mostly dry woods, Idaho to Brit, Colum- 

 bia and the eastern States. 



P. rotundifolia L. Sp. 396. Scapes 6-20 inches high, several to 

 many-flowered, scaly-bracteate: leaves orbicular or broadly oval, 1-2 inches 

 long, obscurely crenulate or entire, shining above, coriaceous, mostly shorter 

 than the petioles: bracts lanceolate of ovate-lanceolate: calyx-lobes lanceo- 

 late or ovate-lanceolate, lax or with spreading tips, usually half as long as 

 the white or flesh-colored obtuse petals: stamens declined; anthers with 

 long cells, contracted into a very short neck under the openings, the mucro 

 at base very short or obsolete: style declined and exserted. In dry woods, 

 California to Alaska and the eastern States, 



Var. incarnata DC. Prodr. vii. 773. " A rather small form : flowers 

 from flesh-color to rose-purple: calyx-lobes triangular-lanceolate. " Bogs, 

 Idaho to Alaska and northern New England. 



P. bracteata Hook. Fl. ii 49. Scapes 10-16 inches high, usually 

 many-flowered, scaly-bracteate: leaves oval to ov^te or oblong, acutish, 

 not shining above, often variegated with whitish bands, 1-3 inches long, 

 on slender petioles: bracts broadly lanceolate, acuminate, large and con- 

 spicuous: calyx-lobes acuminate-lanceolate, more than half as long as the 

 red petals: stamens declined ; anthers with long cells contracted under the 

 openings into a short neck : style declined, exserted. In wet places in the 

 mountains, California to Brit. Columbia. 



P. picta Smith Rees Cycl. xxix. Scapes 6-12 inches high, 7-16-flow- 

 ered : leaves firm-coriaceous, dull-colored or whitish, commonly veined or 

 blotched with white above, pale or sometimes purplish beneath, 1-3 inches 

 ,ong, from broadly ovate to spatulate or narrowly oblong, the blades all 

 longer t ban their petioles : rootstock rigid and often branched or clustered : 

 bracts few and short : calyx-lobes ovate, not half the length of the greenish- 

 white petals : stamens little if at all declined : anthers with a distinct neck 

 under the orifice: style strongly declined. Under Pine trees in sparsely 

 wooded districts, Nootka Sound to California, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. 



P. aphylla Smith 1. c. Scapes 8-12 inches high, strictly erect, reddish 

 or lurid, from deep scaly-toothed branched rootstocks, usually leafless, 

 several to many-flowered: bracts subulate: calyx-lobes ovate, acute, very 

 much shorter than the obovate whitish petals : stamens but slightly if at all 

 declined : anthers tubular-beaked under the orifice : style almost straight, 

 strongly declined. In coniferous woods, Alaska to California. 



Var. pancifolia. With or without one or two small orbicular leaves 

 at base : bracts larger, broadly lanceolate. In dense forests of the Cascade 

 Mountains. 



2 MONESES Salisb. in S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. ii, 403. 



A low perennial with opposite or verticillate evergreen leaves 

 and a solitary drooping white or pink flower at the summit of a 



