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color, sweet-scented; corolla 1 in. long or more, one of two of the segments 

 with a narrowly elliptic deep salmon-colored spot. Mostly on dry slopes 

 of the mountains of Sonoma Co., from Mt. St. Helena^to near Petaluma. 



6. CHIMAPHILA, Pursh. Low evergreen undershrubs, with rather 

 large serrulate leaves in irregular whorls, and a terminal naked umbel 

 of a few fragrant flowers. Corolla rotate; petals 5, orbicular, concave. 

 Stamens 10; filaments enlarged and hairy in the middle. Style in verse - 

 conic; stigma broad, orbicular. Fruit a depressed 5-lobed 5-celled cap- 

 sule opening loculicidally from the apex. 



1. C. Menziesii (Don.), Spreng. Leaves % \Y 2 in. long, ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, purplish beneath, more or less 

 mottled or veined with white above: peduncle 1 3-flowered: filaments 

 villous. Mt. Hamilton; and to be expected on Mt. Tamalpais; otherwise 

 a northern plant. 



7. PYROLA, Brunfels. Low perennial herbs. Leaves when present 

 ample, petiolate and near the ground. Scape scaly-bracted, bearing a 

 raceme at summit. Petals orbicular, concave, but more or less conver- 

 gent. Stigma 5-lobed. Capsule loculicidal, the valves separating from 

 below. 



1. P. picta, Smith. Leaves ovate, or ovate-oblong, on short or mar- 

 gined petioles, coriaceous, pale, veined or blotched with white: petals 

 greenish-white. Reported from Mendocino Co., and likely to be found 

 within our limits. 



2. P. aphylla, Smith. Leafless; the stems red, 7 10 in. high, from 

 a scaly-bracted rootstock: lobes of the calyx ovate, acute, much shorter 

 than the obovate white petals. Lower slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. 



