426 ; PYROLACEZ MONESES 
CHIMAPHILA 
slender scape. Calyx 4-5-parted, persistent. Petals 4 or 5, 
widely spreading, sessile. Stamens 8 or 10, glabrous: anthers 
2-beaked at the base, reversed when mature, each cell opening by 
a basal but apparently apical pore. Style straight: stigma pel- 
tate, large, with 4 or 5 narrow lobes. Capsule subglobose, 4-5- 
lobed, 4—5-celled, loculicidally 4—5-valved from the summit; the 
valves glabrous on the margins. Seeds numerous, minute, the 
testa reticulated, produced at both ends. a: 
M. uniflora Gray Man. 273. Stem very short and decumbent, leafy: 
leaves orbicular to ovate, petioled, serrulate, 6-20 lines long: scape 2-6 
inches high: flower white to rose-color, 6-10 lines broad : calyx lolios ovate, | 
obtuse, about one-fifth the length of the broadly ovate or orbicular petals: 
capsule erect, 3-4 linesin diameter. In forests, Oregon to Alaska and 
across the Continent. Europe and Asia. 
3 CHIMAPHILA Pursh FI. i, 279. 
Low perennials with opposite or verticillate evergreen leaves 
and spreading or nodding white or purplish flowers in terminal 
corymbs. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5, con- 
cave, sessile, spreading or recurved. Stamens 10; filaments 
short, dilated, and mostly hairy in the middle; cells of the anthers 
oblong, with a short narrow neck. Style very short, obconic, 
immersed in the umbilicate summit of the globose ovary : stigma 
orbicular-peltate, barely 5-crenate. Capsule erect, globose, 5-lob- 
ed, 5-celled, loculicidally 5-valved’ from the top, the valves not 
woolly on the margins. Seeds very numerous, the testa reticu- 
lated, produced at both ends. | 
C. umbellata Nutt. Gen. i, 274. Stem stout, 4-12 inches high,very 
leafy, often branched: leaves cuneate-oblanceolate with tapering base, 
sharply serrate, not spotted, bright green and shining, 1-3 inches long: 
flowers several, umbellate or subcorymbose, white or pinkish: bracts nar- 
row, deciduous: filaments hairy on the margins only. In dry woods, 
California to Alaska and across the Continent. | t: 
C. Menziesii Spreng. Syst. ii, 317. Slender, 3-10 inches high, spar- 
ingly branched from the base: leaves from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 
acute at both ends, small, sharply serrate, the upper surface often mottled 
with white: peduncle 1-3-flowered: bracts ovate or roundish: filaments 
slender, with a round dilated portion in the middle villous: flowers about 
half-inch in diameter; petals dull white. In forests, California to Brit. Col. 
OrDER LVI. MONOTROPACE A Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 219°, 
Leafless fleshy herbs with the flowers in spikes, racemes, 
capitate, or solitary. Flowers regular and perfect. Calyx of 
2-6 erect lobes or segments or imbricated sepals, free from the. 
ovary. Corolla 4--5-lobed, or of 3-6 petals, rarely wanting, 
imbricated. Stamens 6-12, hypogynous: filaments equal, dis- 
tinct, or connate at base: mikien 2-celled, or confluently 1- 
celled, attached to the filaments by the back or base, opening 
by longitudinal slits: pollen grains simple. Style short or 
longated: stigma capitate or peltate. Ovary superior, 4-6- 
