262 GALACINEJE. (GAL AX FAMILY.) 



27. ITIONOTROPA, L. INDIAN PIPE. PINE-SAF. 



Calyx of 2-5 lanceolate bract-like scales, deciduous. Corolla of 4 or 5 

 separate erect spatulate or wedge-shaped scale-like petals, which are gibbous or 

 saccate at the base, and tardily deciduous. Stamens 8 or 10 : filaments awl- 

 shaped: anthers kidney-shaped, becoming 1-celled, opening across the top. 

 Style columnar : stigma disk-like, 4 5-rayed. Pod ovoid, 8- 10-groovcd, 4-5- 

 celled, loculicidal : vhe very thick placentas covered with innumerable minute 

 s/ed-:, which have a very loose coat. Low and flesh v herbs, tawnv, reddic-h, or 

 white, parasitic on roots, or growing on decomposing vegetable matter like a 

 Fungus; the clustered stems springing from a ball of matted fibrous r >otlet3, 

 furnished with scales or bracts in place of leaves, 1 -sevr-ral-llowered ; the flow- 

 ering summit at first nodding, in fruit erect. (Name composed of /^cWi9 one, 

 and T/JOTTO., turn, from the summit of the stem turned to one side.) 



1. MONOTROPA, Nutt. Plant inodorous, vith a aiwjle 5-petalM and 10- 

 androns flower at tne summit ; the calyx of 2-4 iircc/ulur scales or brads: aiit/'.trs 

 transverse, opening by 2 chinks ; style short and thick. 



1. RI. liiiifldra, L. (INDIAN PIPE. CORPSE-PLANT.) Smooth, waxy- 

 white (turning blackish in drying, .3' -8' high) ; stigma naked. Dark and rich 

 woods: common. June- Aug. (Also in the Himalayas !) 



2. HYP6PITYS, Dill. Plant commonly fmtjmnt : Jloicers sfvtral in a scaly 

 raceme; the terminal one usually 5-j>eJu//td and \0-androns, while the rest are 4- 

 petalled and 8-andious; the bract-like sepals mostly as many as the petals: anthers 

 opening by a continuous line into 2 very i<iijnul vat res, the smaller one erect and ap- 

 pearing like a continuation of the filament: style longer than the ovary, hollow. 



2. M. Ilypopitys, L. (PINE-SAP. FALSE BKECII-DROPS.) Some- 

 what pubescent or downy, tawny, whitish, or reddish (4'- 12' high) ; pod globu- 

 lar-ovoid or oval; stigma ciliate underneath. The more pubescent form is M. 

 lanuginusa, Afichx. Oak and pine woods ; common. June-Aug. (Ku.) 



ORDER 63. GAL.ACINE^E. (GALAX FAMILY.) 



Character that of the following genus ; the true relationship of whicL ta 

 still unknown. 



1. GALAX, L. GALAX. 



Calyx of 5 small and separate sepals, persistent. Petals 5, hypogynous, obo 

 vate-spatulate, rather erect, deciduous. Stamens hypogynous : filaments united 

 m a 10-toothed tube, slightly cohering with the base of the petals, the 5 teeth 

 opposite the petals naked, the 5 alternate ones shorter and bearing each a round- 

 ish 1-celled anther, which Opens across the top. Pollen simple. Style short: 

 Ftigma .'Mobed. Pod ovoid, 3-celled, loeuliHdally 3-valved : eoiiunella none. 

 Seeds numerous, the cellular loose coat tapering to each end. Embryo straight 

 in fleshy albnmcn, more than half its length. ^\ smooth herb, Avith a thick 

 matted tuft of scaly creeping root-stocks, btset with fibrous red routs, sending up 



