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tals five, roundish, concave, spreading, cream colored, with a 

 tinge of purple at base. Stamens ten. Filaments sigmoid, the 

 lower half fleshy, triangular, dilated, and slightly pubescent at 

 the edges; the upper half filiform. Anthers two celled, each 

 cell opening by a short, round, tubular orifice, which points 

 downward in the bud, but upward in the flower. Pollen white. 

 Germ roundish, depressed, furrowed, obscurely five lobed, with 

 a funnel shaped cavity at top. Style straight, half as long as the 

 germ, inversely conical, inserted in the cavity of the germ, and 

 concealed by the stigma. Stigma large, peltate, convex, moist, 

 obscurely five rayed. Capsules erect, depressed, five celled, 

 five valved, the partitions from the middle of the valves. Seeds 

 linear, chaffy, very numerous and minute. — Dry woods. — June 

 and July. 



PvROLA MACULATA. L. Spottccl Pyi-olo. 



Leaves lanceolate, rounded at base, remotely ser- 

 rate, marked with a longitudinal stripe ; scape two or 

 three flowered ; filaments woolly. 

 Syn. Chimaphila maculata. Pursh. 



A beautiful plant, abundantly distinguished from the other 

 species by its variegated leaves. The stalk divides at top into 

 two or three nodding incrassated peduncles, each furnished with 

 a small subulate bracte near its middle, and bearing a single 

 flower. Calyx five leaved, the leaves ovate, rather obtuse, finely 

 ciliate, overlaying each other at base. Petals five, white, ob- 

 long, obtuse, contracted at base, reflexed. Filaments sigmoid, 

 the lower half fleshy, angular, and covered with thick hair. Aa- 

 thers tv/o celled, opening by two tubular orifices. Germ round- 

 ish, depressed, furrowed. Style short, thick, inversely conical, 

 about two thirds exseited. Stigma very large, convex, obscurely 

 five lobed. — Woods, near Newton upper falls, rare. — On Mount 

 Holyoke, Northampton. — July. 



193. MONOTROPA. 



MoNOTROPA uNiFLORA. Common Monotropa. Tobacco Pipe. 



Stem erect, single flowered. 



The whole plant is of a clear white, turning black at the tips 



