18 PLANT.E FREMONTIAN.E. I. 



ad basim introrsum affixa; ; loculis sacculfeformibus, apicc oblique truncatis, fora- 

 niine amplo hiantibus. Ovarium hemisphtericum, quinquelobatum, quinqueloculare ; 

 loculis multiovulatis. Ovula horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus elongato-columnaris : 

 stigma capitatum, subquinquelobum. Discus nullus. Capsula depresso-globosa, 

 subquinqueloba, quinquel ocularis. Semina numerosissima, ovata, aptera ; testa 

 reticulata. Embryo in basi albuminis, minutissimus, indivisus. — Herba Californica, 

 carnosa, rubra ; caule simplici, squamis carnosis vestito, in spicam conferte 

 bracteatam desinens ; floribus pedicellatis. 



SARCODES SANGUINEA, Tab. X. 



Hab. — ^Valley of the Sacramento ; the precise locality not recorded, but 

 probably on the Yuba River. 



A very interesting plant, belonging to the small group of Monotropese. It is of 

 a fleshy texture and blood-red color. The stems are apparently clustered, and 

 spring from a thick coralloid root. They are from six to ten inches high, perfectly 

 simple, and clothed with long erect scales, which are broader below, and gradually 

 become narrower above, where they pass into bracts. The lowest scales are 

 broadly ovate and clasping, very thick, and of a firmer texture than the others : 

 upper ones an inch or two inches long, and two or three lines wide, rather obtuse, 

 ciliate on the margin. The flowei-s are numerous (from 30 to 50), about as large 

 as in Hypopithys lanuginosa, and occupy the upper half of the stem, each sub- 

 tended and partly concealed by a long bract. All of them are decandrous. 

 Peduncles of the lower flowers are nearly an inch long ; of the upper flowers 

 much shorter. The calyx is composed of five appressed, oblong, obtuse, glandularly 

 pubescent sepals, which are imbricated in sestivation. The corolla is about one 

 third larger than the calyx, monopetalous, obtusely five-lobed, without gibbosities 

 at the base, and glabrous. The stamens are hardly more than half the length of 

 the corolla, and arise from its base : the glabrous filaments are somewhat flattened. 

 The anthers are attached to the filament by the back towards the base. They 

 are about two lines long, and consist of two oblong, tubular, saccate cells, which in 

 the bud are erect,* and almost or quite divided into two loculi. Each cell is 

 obliquely truncated at the apex, where it opens by a large hole. The pollen is 

 simple, very minute, and somewhat hemispherical. The ovary is distinctly five- 

 lobed, and wth as many cells, into which protrude the large placentse, covered with 

 innumerable oblong anatropous ovules. The style is erect, stout, about the length 



* The anthers of Schweinitzia, while in the flower-bud, are singularly turned to one side at a right 

 angle, so that one coll stands directly over the other. Even in the expanded flower, they do not 

 become perfectly erect. My friend, Dr. Gray, in his admirable description of this genus [Chloris 

 Bor.-Aincr. p. 17), gives nie credit for adopting, in my Flora of the Northern and Middle States, 

 published io 1824, the true view of the position of the anthers of Pyrola. It was in the Flora of 

 New York (1843) that I corrected the error : in the former work the prevailing view was given. 



