INDIAN PIPE FAMILY. Monotropaceae. 



yellowish, tinged with red or pink, and though interesting 

 is not so delicately pretty as Indian Pipe. It seems to be a 

 stouter plant around Mt. Rainier than in the East and 

 grows in thick woods, across the continent and in Europe 

 and Asia. H. sanguined is a new kind, recently discovered 

 in the Arizona mountains; six to twelve inches tall, growing 

 in dense shade at high altitudes, and brilliant red through- 

 out. 



The only kind, found only in North 

 Pine- rops America, a strange plant, harmonious in 



Pterospora ' ' . 



Andromedla color, with a fleshy, brownish or reddish 



White stem, from one to four feet tall, with 



Summer yellowish bracts and covered with sticky 



Across the hairs, springing from a mass of matted, 



continent _, 



fibrous, astringent roots. The flowers are 



a quarter of an inch long, with pink pedicels, brownish 

 bracts, a brownish-pink calyx, with five lobes, and an 

 ivory-white corolla, with five teeth; the stamens ten, net 

 protruding; the style short, with a five-lobed stigma; the 

 capsule roundish, five-lobed, with many winged seeds. 

 We often find dead insects stuck to the stem. In win- 

 ter, the dry, dark red stalks, ornamented with pretty 

 seed-vessels, are attractive in the woods. This usually 

 grows among pine trees, across the continent, but no- 

 where common. The Greek name means "wing-seeded." 

 It is also called Giant Bird's-nest and Albany Beech- 

 drops. Allotropa virgata, of the Northwest, is similar, but 

 smaller, with five, roundish sepals and no corolla. 



There are two kinds of Pleuricospora; 

 Flowering-fungus , . . , .... 



Pleuricospora t ^ lis 1S * rom tnree to eight inches tall, with 

 fimbriolfaa flowers half an inch long, deliciously fra- 



Flesh-color grant, with four or five, scale-like, fringed 



Summer sepals, four or five, separate, fringed 



California ' 



petals, resembling the sepals, and eight 



or ten stamens. The ovary is egg shaped, one-celled, with 

 a thick style and flattish stigma, and the fruit is a watery 

 berry. If the waxy, flesh-colored flowers were set off by 

 proper green leaves they would be exceedingly pretty, but 

 they are crowded on a fleshy stem, of the same color as 

 themselves, .mixed with fringed bracts, with broi 

 scales instead of leaves, and have an unnatural appearaiu 

 I found thirty of these curious plants, growing in a lit 



