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SPECIES L— MONO TRO PA HYPOPITYS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLII. 

 Billot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 26. 



Flowers in a raceme, which is drooping until fertilization has 

 taken place, afterwards erect. Anthers opening into 2 very unequal 

 valves, the upper ones smaller and erect. Style longer than the 

 ovary, hollow and funnel-shaped at the apex. 



Var. a, glabra. Roth. 



M. Hypophegea, W'dlroth, Scbed. Grit. p. 191. 

 Hypopitya glabra, Bernh. D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 780. 



Stamens, petals, style, as well as the rest of the plant, glabrous. 

 Var. 0, hirsuta. Roth. 



M. Hypopitys, Wallroth, Scbed. Grit. p. 193. 



Hypopitya multiflora, Scop. 1). C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 280. 



Inside of the sepals, petals, stamens, ovary, and style, pubes- 

 cent. Bracts ciliated, otherwise as in var. a. 



In woods, at the roots of beeches and firs. Local. Sparingly 

 distributed over England, and not uncommon in the Southern 

 counties. In Scotland known to occur only in Cawdor Woods, 

 Nairnshire. Var. 3 appears to be less frequent than var. a. I 

 have specimens from Cambridgeshire, Debden and Audrey End, 

 Essex, and two or three out of nearly a hundred specimens 

 gathered at random on Reigate Hill, Surrey. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Root of numerous slender somewhat knotty fibres, extremely 

 difficult to separate from the soil.* Stems solitary, or several toge- 

 ther, 3 to 15 inches high, thick, fleshy, cream-white, clothed with 

 white fleshy scales in place of leaves, the upper part bent sharply 

 round and downwards at first, afterwards becoming straight, and 

 wholly erect. Flowers numerous, \ inch long, very shortly stalked 

 in the axils of bracts resembling the scales on the stem ; crowded 

 while the raceme is bent down, afterwards more lax, and with the 

 pedicels lengthening considerably in fruit ; terminal flower with 

 5 petals and 10 stamens, the lateral ones with 8, or sometimes 



* These fibres are said by Mr. Bylanda to be a byssoid fungus, and not a part of 

 the Monotropa (Phyt. Ser. I. Vol. I. p. 341). 



