462 ERICACEAE. Ptcrunpuru. 



tious witli the centml axis, from which the i)luccntu3 are pcnduious. Seeds very 

 numerous, ovoul, with a tliin nearly ch)se coat, ajjicuhite at base, and at apex, bewar- 

 ing a broad hyaline and reticulated wing-liko appendage, many times larger than 

 the seed itself. — Nutt. Con. i. 38G ; Liudl. Collect, t. 5. — Single species. 



1. P. andromedea, Kutt. A stout, purplish-brown or chestnut-colored and 

 clammy-pubescent herb, 1 to 3 feet high : the lanceolate scales or bracts small, 

 crowded at the base, scattered above : raceme long, virgate, niany-flowered ; the 

 spreading and recurveil [ledicels slender, as long as the linear scarious bracts : 

 corolla white, a c^uarter of an inch long, somewhat viscid : capsule a third of an inch 

 in diameter. 



In dry soil, under pines or otlier eouiferous trees and oaks, from Monterey northward, extend- 

 ing to British Columbia and through the Northern Atlantic States. 



17. SABCODES, Torr. Snow-Plant. 



Calyx of 5 oblong erect sepals, shorter than the corolla, persistent. Corolla 

 cylindraceous-campaimlate, moderately 5-lobed, the lobes little spreading, persistent. 

 Stamens 10, included, glabrous : lilaments slender : anthers linear-oblong, attached 

 by the outside a little above the base, not appendagetl, the 2 cells united through- 

 out and with a very narrow connectivo, openiug by the whole obliquely truncate 

 apex. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled : stylo columnar : stigma capitate, slightly 5-lobed. 

 Capsule fleshy ; the thick placentie adnate to the axis for their Avhole length. Seeds 

 very numerous, oval ; the coat cellular-reticulated, but closely fitted to the nucleus, 

 except a conical protuberance at the apex. — Torr. PI. Fremont, in Smithsonian 

 Contrib. 17, t. 10. 



1. S. sanguinea, Torr. 1. c. A stout fleshy herb, a spau or two in height, of a 

 bright red color, luore or less glandular-pubescent, thickly clothed, at least iip tt) thn 

 raceme, with firm fleshy scales; the lower ones ovate and closely imbricated, the 

 npper gradually more scattered, narrower, and passing into the linear bracts, which 

 mostly excued the llowcns, thuir mar^^ins gland td;ir-c,iliatu : i)iidicels erect, at kuist 

 the upper ones short : corolla half an inch long, rather fleshy, glabrous. 



In coniferous forests, esjieiaiilly tliuso of Sequoia and Abies, tlirough the Sierra Nevada from 

 4,000 to y,000 feel, sliooliu',' ft)ith and flowering as soon as tlie snow melts away. 



18. MONOTROPA, l.iun. Indian 1'iimc. IMnk-S.m-. 



Calyx of 2 to 5 lanceolate often loose and dissimilar bract-like scales, deciduous. 

 Corolla of 4 or 5 erect spatulate or oblong scale-like petals, which are gibbous or 

 saccate at base, tardily deciduous. Stamens twice as many as the petals : filaments 

 filiform-subulate : anthers more or less reniform, transverse upon the apex of the 

 filament; the cells more (U- less confluent into one, opening across the top. Style 

 columnar, tubular, more or less dilated at the a[)ox into the ilisk-liko or somewhat 

 funnelform obscurely -1 - 5-crenate stigma. Disk confluent with the base of thu 

 ovary, bearing 8 or 10 deilexed teeth. Capsule ovoid, 4 -5-celled: the thick pla- 

 centaj covered with innumerable minute loose-coated seeds. — Low fleshy-scaly herbs, 

 white or reddish, turning brownish ; the clustered and loosely scaly stems rising 

 from a ball of matted fibrous roots ; the flowering summit at first nodding, becom- 

 ing erect in age. — Two or three species, of two well-marked subgenera, by many 

 i-eceived as genera ; but the differences are rather unimportant. 



