.Monotropa.'] 



LII. MONOTROPACE^ 



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3. P. viedia Swartz (intermediate W.); leaves ovate-rotundate 

 crenate, stamens erect mucli shorter than the straijrht or slightly 

 decurved style, stigma with 5 erect points. JE. B. t. 1945. 



Woods, principally in the north; Keswick, Cumberland;^ Rugley 

 wood, Northumberland ; Durham ; York ; Worcestershire ; St. 



Leonard's 



County 

 Sti/le protruded beyond the 



Forest, Sussex; also said to grow in Oxford, Bucks, 

 Warwick, and Lancashire, Not very general in Scotland, 

 of Antrim, &c, Ireland. 1/.. 7, 8. 

 Jlower, nearly straight. 



4. P. minoi^ L. (lesser Winter-green) ; leaves ovate-rotundate 

 crenate, stamens erect as long as the very short straight style 

 which is included within the flower, stigma large with 5 diver- 

 gent rays. E. B. t. 158 (not good) ; Hook, in FL Lond. t. 154* 

 P. rosea E. B. t. 2543. 



Woods in the north of England and Scotland ; frequent in the 

 Western Highlands and Hebrides. "2/.. 6, 7. — Smaller than the last, 

 essentially distinguished from it, and at once characterised by the 

 shortness of its stijle and large radiated stigma^ quite included within 

 the concave corolla. 



Ord. LIL MOXOTllOPACEiE Nutt. • 



Cat 5-partite or 5-sepaled, persistent. Cor. regulai% gamo- 

 petalous, ovate or campanulate, or wanting. Stamens 8 — 10, 

 sometimes alternating with as many recurved glands; anthers 

 sometimes opening transversely, sometimes parallel-celled with 

 bristles at the base, neve!* opening by pores at the base or apex. 

 Ovary without a conspicuous entire hypogynous disk, 4 — 5- 

 celled, many-seeded. Style single. Stigma discoid, somewhat 

 margined. Capsule 5-celled, S-valved, loculicidal. Seeds nu- 

 merous, chaffy or winged at oup end. Embryo minute, in the 

 apex of the fleshy albumen, — Herbaceous, gi^owing among the 

 roots of Pines and other trees ; stems brown or almost colourless, 

 leafless^ but covered with scales. 



L MoxoTROPA Z^???^. Bird's Nest. 



Perianth (corolla DC.) of 4 — 5 leaves, cucuUate at the base, 

 with or without as many external alternating scales or &rac- 

 teas (calyx DC). Anthers 1-celled, 2-lippcd. Seeds chaffy. — ■ 

 Named from juoj^oc, one, and tjoettw to turn; the flowers all point- 

 ing one way. 



1. M. Nypopitys L. (yellow B.) ; flowers racemose glabrous 

 extermdly, lateral ones with 8 stamens, terminal one with 10, 

 leaves of the perianth with as many glabrous alternating ex- 

 ternal scales. E. B, t. 69. — a. filaments, ovary, style, and mslde 



of perianth glabrous. — /3. filaments, ovary, style, and inside of 

 perianth hairy. 



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