428 MONOTROPACE^E SARCODES 



MONOTROPA 



slender awns deflexed, the cells opening lengthwise. Style short : 

 stigma 5-lobed. Capsule depressed-globose, 5-lobed, the thin 

 walls persistent after dehiscence, being attached by the partitions 

 to the columella. Seeds very numerous, the nucleus ovoid, with 

 a close thin coat, apiculate at both ends, the upper apiculation 

 bearing a broad thin wing. A single known species. 



P. Andromedea Nutt. 1. c. Stems several from a shallow seated per- 

 ennial root, 1-3 feet high or more, light brown or purplish, glandular and 

 viscid-pubescent throughout, bearing numerous lanceolate or linear scales, 

 and many flowers in a long raceme : pedicels slender, spreading, soon re- 

 curved, 3-10 lines long: sepals oblong, 1-2 lines long: corolla white, 3 

 lines long, viscid. Under Pines, California to Brit. Columbia and the 

 eastern States. 



3 SARCODES Torr. Smithson. Contrib. iii, 17, t.10. 



Low fleshy plants with numerous scale-like bracts and many 

 red flowers in a short terminal raceme. Sepals 5. erect, persist- 

 ent. Corolla cylindraceous-carapanulate, with 5 barely spreading 

 lobes. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla ; anthers linear-ob- 

 long, erect attached above the base, the 2 cells confluent through- 

 out, the whole apex opening by a large introrsely oblique termin- 

 al pore. Ovary low-conical, 5-lobed. Style columnar, rather 

 long : stigma capitate, somewhat 5-lobed. Capsule depressed, 

 5-lobed. Seeds very numerous, oval, the coat reticulated, closely 

 fitted to the nucleus except a small conical protuberance at the 

 apex. A single known species 



S. sanguinea Torr. 1. c. Whole plant bright red: stem stout, 6-12 

 inches high, thickly clothed with, when young, well imbricated, firm fleshy 

 scales; lower scales ovate; upper narrower and more scattered, and above 

 passing into the linear bracts of the thick raceme which subtend the red 

 flowers, all ciliate : pedicels erect, the upper ones very short : sepals oblong, 

 6-8 lines long, ciliate, a little shorter than the glabrous corolla. On the 

 high mountains, of southern Oregon, California and Nevada. 



4 MONOTROPA L. Gen. n. 536, in part. 



Low fleshy plants with many scattered scale-like bracts and a 

 solitary nodding white flower. Calyx of 2-4 irregular sepals, or 

 perhaps bracts, the lower ones rather distant from the flower, de- 

 ciduous. Petals 5, rarely 6, erect, not saccate at base, tardily 

 deciduous. Stamens twice as many as petals: filaments filiform- 

 subulate : anthers somewhat reniform, opening at first by two 

 transverse chinks, at length 2-valved, the valves almost equal, 

 and equally spreading. Style short and thick: stigma funnel- 

 form, with naked edge. Capsule ovoid, erect in fruit. Seeds small, 

 very numerous, scobiform, the nucleus minute in the loose-cellu- 

 lar elongated coat. A single species. 



M. uniflora'L. Sp. 387. Bright white and glabrous throughout : stems 

 clustered, 6-12 inches high, rising from a thick and matted mass of fibrous 

 rootlets, 1-flowered, scaly : scales broadly lanceolate, entire : petals 4-6, 

 puberulent within, 6-10 lines long : filaments pubescent. In damp woods, 

 throughout North America. Japan and India. 



