262 GALACiNE.fi. (GALAX FAMILY.; 



27. MONOTROPA, L. INDIAN PIPE. PINE-SAP. 



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-grooved, 4-5- 

 celled, loculicidal : the very thick placentae covered with innumerable minute 

 seeds, which have a very loose coat. Low and fleshy herbs, tawny, reddish, or 

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

 Fungus ; the clustered stems springing from a ball of matted fibrous rootlets, 

 furnished with scales or bracts in place of leaves, 1 - several-flowered ; the flow- 

 ering summit at first nodding, in fruit erect. (Name composed of pWis, one, 

 and Tpvrros, turn, from the summit of the stem turned to one side.) 



$ 1. MONOTROPA, Nutt. Plant inodorous, with a singk 5-petalled and 10- 

 androus flower at the summit ; the calyx of 2-4 irregular scales or bracts: ant/ters 

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



1. IH. imiflora, 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 fragrant : flowers several in a scaly 

 raceme; the terminal one usually 5-petalled and IQ-androus, while the rest are 4- 

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

 opening by a continuous line into 2 very unequal valves, the smaller one erect and ap 

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



2. M. Hypopitys, L. (PINE-SAP. FALSE BEECH-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 

 lanugiriosa, Michx. Oak and pine woods ; common. July, Aug. (Eu.) 



ORDER 63. GALACIJVE^E. (GALAX FAMILY.) 



Character that of the following genus ; the true relationship of which is 

 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 

 in 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 : 

 stigma 3-lobed. Pod ovoid, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved: columella none. 

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

 in fleshy albumen, more than half its length. A smooth herb, with a thick 

 matted tuft of scaly creeping rootstocks, beset witli fibrous red roots, sending up 



