428 MONOTROPACEZE 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-campanulate, 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, 
puberuleut within, 6-10 lines long: filaments pubescent. In damp woods, 
throughout North America. Japan and India. 
