50 LENNOACE.E. .Monotropa. 



the petals : the latter saccate at base : anthers more reniform ; the cells completely 

 confluent into one, which opens by very unequal valves, the larger broad and 

 spreading, the other remaining erect and contracted : style longer : stigma glan- 

 dular or hairy on the margin. — Hypopitys, Dill., Scop., &c. 



"M. Hypopitys, L. A span or at lengtli a foot high, tawnj' or flesh-colored : scales and 

 bracts entire or slightly erose : flowers less than half inch long ; the lateral 4-petalous and 

 8-androus. — Lam. 111. t. 362 ; Fl. Dun. t. 232 ; Sohk. Handb. t. 316 ; Reiclienb. Ic. Germ, 

 t. 1152. M. lanuginosa, Mieh.x. ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 457, t. 72. Hijiiojiili/s tutea, Dill. H. inul- 

 tlflora, Scop. H. Europtva & H. lanuginosa, Nutt. Gen. i. 271. — Under amentaceous and 

 coniferous trees, Canada to Florida and Louisiana, west to Oregon and Br. Columbia. 

 (Mex., Japan to Eu.) 



'"M. flmbriata, Gray. Near a foot in height: ohovate-cuneate upper scales and bracts 

 and spatulate sepals laciniately or erosely fimbriate : lateral flowers commonly 3-petalous 

 and 6-androus. — Proc. Am. Acad. vni. 629, &, Bot. Calif, i. 463. — Cascade Mountains in 

 Oregon, E. Hall. (Mistaken for Pleuricospora fimhriolala in Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 394.) 



33. PLEURICOSPORA, Gray. {nievQr/.6i;,s,t the side, and anoQa, seed, 

 alluding to the parietal placentation.) — A single known species. 



P. fimbriolata, Gray. Light brown or whitish plant, witli the aspect of itonotropa Hg- 

 popitgs, but stouter, a span high, glabrous or nearly so, clothed with imbricated scales : 

 lowest scales ovate, firm, entire ; upper passing into the narrower and lanceolate searious- 

 margined and lacerate-fringed bracts of the dense and erect cylindraceous spike : corolla 

 white or "whitish, not exceeding the bracts, barely half inch long. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 

 369, & Bot. Calif, i. 463 (not of Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 394, which is Monotropa Jimlriata). — 

 California, in the Mariposa grove of Sequoia gigantea, Bolandei: 



34. NEWBifiRRYA, Torr. (Dedicated to the discoverer, Professor J. S. 

 Newberry., a geologist and naturalist, much devoted to fossil botany.) — Benth. & 

 Hook. Gen. ii. 606. A single species. 



N. COngesta, Torr. Plant brownish, glabrous, a span high : scales crowded or loosely 

 imbricated, oval or oblong, thinnish, with obscurely erose margins ; the upper forming 

 similar bracts of the somewhat depressed head of numerous flowers : corolla hardly half 

 inch long ; its lobes within and the style hairy. — Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. 55 ; Gray, Bol. Calif, 

 i. 464. Ilemiiomes congestum. Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. vi. 81, t. 12 ; char, and figure incorrect as 

 to the antliers, and the name inapplicable. — Cascade Mountains, in Des Chutes Valley, 

 S. Oregon, Newberrg. Washington Territory, station unknown, George Gibhs. 



/ Order LXXVIII. LENNOACEiE. 



Root-parasitic leafless herbs, scaly and fleshy, with much the aspect of Moiio- 

 tropecE, but with stamens inserted in or near the throat of the tubular corolla, 

 and the polymerous ovary peculiar, the cells being at least double the number 

 of the other parts of the 5-10-merous regular and perfect flower, and uniovulate ; 

 the fruit drupaceo-polycoccous. Sepals 5 to 10, linear or filiform. Corolla hvpo- 

 gynoiis, tubular or slightly funnelform, marcescent, .5-8-lobed, the lobes plicate- 

 imbricated in the bud. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and alternate with 

 them: filaments very short: anthers 2-colled, introrse; the cells opening longi- 

 tudinally: pollen simple, 3-sulcate. Disk none. Ovary depressed-globose, 12- 

 28-celled (doubtless of half as many 2-locellate carpels, surrounding a thick axis) : 

 style slender : stigma crenulate or somewhat lobed. Ovule horizontal, anatropons 

 or somewhat amphitropous ; the orifice superior. Fruit depressed-globular, with 



