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-P. andromedsa, Nutt. A cliestniU-colorcd or purplish lierb, glandular and clammy- 

 pubescent : sinijile stem 1 to 3 feet liigli, bearing small and scattered lanceolate scales : 

 raceme long and man_v-flowered : pedicels slender, spreading, soon recurved: corolla white, 

 a, quarter inch long, somewhat viscid. — Gen. i. 386; Lindl. Coll. t. 3. — Under pines and 

 oaks, X. W. New England, Canada, and Pennsylvania to Br. Columbia and California : 

 fl. summer. 



30. SARCODES, Torr. Sxow-Plaxt. {lany.nndi]^, flesh-like or fleshy, 

 from the appearance of this singular plant.) — Torr. PI. Freui. in Smithson. Con- 

 trib. iii. 17, t. 10. — A single species. 



— S. Sanguinea, Torr. Stout fleshy herb, a span to a foot high, of flesh-red color, 

 somewhat glandular-pubescent, thickly clothed and when young imbricated with the firm 

 fleshy scales : lower scales ovate; upper narrower, more scattered, and above passing into 

 linear bracts of the thick spike or raceme which subtend and mostly exceed the reddish 

 flowers: pedicels erect, the upper ones very short: corolla glabrous, half inch long. — PI. 

 Frem. 1. c:-r-Chatin, Anat. t. 5-5; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 607; Gray, Bot. C'ahf. i. 4()2. — 

 California, in coniferous woods of the Sierra Nevada, 4-9,000 feet, shooting up and flower- 

 ing soon after the snow melts away. 



31. SCHWEINlTZIA, Ell. Sweet Pine-s.vp. (Named in honor of the 

 late Louis David von Schweinitz.) — Flowers exhaling the odor of violets, pi-oduced 

 in sprins;. Anthers in the young flower-bud turned at right angles to the fila- 

 ment, so that apex and base are directed right and left; in anthcbis becoming 

 vertical. — A single species. 



S. odorata, EU. Plant light brown, in tufts, 2 to 4 inches high, glabrous, beset with 

 thinnish ovate or oblong scales, and similar bracts, spicately several-flowered : spike nod- 

 ding in flower, erect in fruit : corolla flesh-color, a quarter inch long. — Ell. in Xutt. Gen. 

 addend. & Sk. i. 478; Gray, Chloris, 15, t. 2. -S'. Caroliniana, Don, Syst. iii Mj7. J/o.io- 

 tiopsis odorata, Schweinitz in Ell. I.e. — Jloist woods, Maryland (near Baltimore) to 

 North Carolina in and near the mountains, parasitic on the roots of herbs or on decaying 

 vegetabia matter. 



3^. W(SnC)T'ROFA, L. In-diax 3?'ipe, Pixe-s.^p. (Morn.-, one, and toccto,-, 

 turn, the svimmit of the stem in flower turned to one side or drooping.) — White, 

 tawnv. or reddish scaly and fleshy herbs, a span or two high ; the clustered stems 

 rising (in summer) from a thick and matted mass of fibrous rootlets, one-several- 

 flowered; the summit of the stem straightening in fruit. — Comprises two very 

 distinct subgenera, in Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 607 restored as genera. 



§ 1. EuMOxoTROPA. (Indian Pipe.). Plant inodorous, 1-flowered : scales 

 passing into an imperfect or irregular calyx of 2 to 4 loose sepals or perhaps 

 bracts ; the lower ones rather distant from the flower : anthers opening at first by 

 2 transverse chinks, at length 2-valved; the valves almost equal and equally 

 spreading : style short and thick : edge of the stigma naked. 



"'M. uniflora, L. Smooth plant .a span or so high, waxy-white (blackish in drying), rarely 

 flesh-color: nodding flower two-thirds inch long: petals 5, rarely 0. — Lam. III. t. o.52 ; 

 Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. iii. t. Sii, f. 1 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. t. S-5 : Torr. Fl. N. Y. t. 71 ; Chatin, Anat. 

 t. 50. ^f. uniflora & if. ^forifnlana, Jlichx. Fl. i. 26(3. it. Morisoni, Pers. (Jloris. Hist, 

 iii. 502 (12), t. 16, f. 5; Pluk. Aim. t. 20:1, f. 2.) — Damp woods, nearly throughout the 

 v. S., Brit. Amer., ic. (Mex., Japan to India.) 



§ 2. Htpopitys. (Pixe-sap.) Plant often violet-scented, commonly pubes- 

 cent, at least aliove. racemosely 3-several-flowered : terminal flower earliest and 

 usually 5-merou5 and the lateral 3-4-merous : sepals less bract-like, as many as 



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