ache THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 
5-(4-8) cleft. The stigma is subglobose or hemispheric (not 
angled), and appears as if 5-(4-8-) valved or crenate owing to 
longitudinal ridges extending, and gradually decreasing to- 
wards the base of the spical funnel-form apperture which at 
maturity is filled with secretion. The cavity of the ovary 
is distinctly one celled with 5 pouches near the the base, the 
large parietal placentae are cordateleltoid in. cross-section, 
and covered all over with numerous anatropous ovules. 
FRUIT: The indehiscent. fruit is baccate, subglobose, 
tipped with the persistent style and stigma, and 0.7 to hardly 
1 cm. in diameter. In shrivelling it becomes more or less 
ovoid-rostrate and corrugated. The red or orange seeds are 
about 0.5 mm. long oval to ovoid and flexuously sulcate or 
somewhat reticulated. The testa is firm and in conformity 
with the nucleus. 
Ti: 
There exists a certain degree of relationship between the 
Alabama plant and the genus Monotropsis Schweinitz 
(Schweinitzia Ell). Thus a brief comparative study con- 
cerning these types may not be out of place. For this purpose 
the following literature has been consulted: 
1. Elliott, Steph., A Sketch of Botany of South Carolina and 
Georgia. 1: 479. 1821.* 
2. Nuttall, Thom., The Genera of North America. 2: Add. 
3. 1817. 
3. Rafinesque-Schmalz, C. S., American Monthly Magazine. 3: 
99. 1818. 
4. Don, G., A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants. 
3: 867. 1834. 
5. de Candolle, A. P., Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Reg. 
Veg. 7: 780. 1839. 
6. Gray, Asa. Manual of Botany. Rev. Ed., 246. 1858. 
7. Proceedings of the American Academy of Science and Arts. 
7: 368-70. 1868. and 20: 300-01. 1885. 
8. “Synoptical Flora of North America.” 2: 18, 49, 386. 1886. 
9. Chapman, A. W., Flora of the Southern United States. 
267. 1860. 
10. Britton, N. L. & Brown, A., Illustrated Flora of the North- 
ern United States ete. 2: 555. 1897. 
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