Genus 4. 



INDIAN-PIPE FAMILY. 



675 



filiform; anthers horizontal, the 2 sacs becoming confluent, opening by 2 uneqnal valves, 

 the larger valve spreading or reflexed, the smaller erect. Disk confluent with the base of the 

 ovary, 8-io-toothed. Ovary 3-s-celled ; style slender; stigma funnelform, sometimes glandu- 

 lar-cihate. Capsule 3-5-celled, 3-S-valved, erect. [Greek, referring to its growth under firs.] 

 A genus of about 6 species of the north temperate zone. Type species: Monotropa Hypopitys L. 

 Stigma not retrorsely bearded; sepals and petals short-ciliate. 

 Stigma retrorsely bearded ; sepals and petals long-ciliate. 



1. H. americana. 



2. H. lanuginosa. 



I. Hypopitys americana (DC.) Small. Pine-sap. 

 False Beech-Drops. Fig. 321 1. 



Hypopitys multiflora americana DC. Prodr. f : 780. 1839. 

 Hypopitys americana Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 880. 1903. 



Plants lemon-yellow, or sometimes pink, finely pubescent. 

 Stems 4-12' tall; scales crowded at base of the stem, 2"-6" 

 long, the upper ones sometimes irregularly toothed; flowers 

 several; sepals spatulate to oblanceolate, sV's" long, often 

 irregularly toothed, ciliate with very short hairs ; petals mainly 

 cuneate, 9"-i3" long, sparingly pubescent, and ciliate like the 

 sepals; style sparingly pubescent; stigma not retrorsely 

 bearded; capsule oval or oblong-oval, 34"-s" long. 



In woods, Ontario and New York, and southward in or near the 

 Alleghenies to North Carolina. Yellow-bird's-nest. Fir-rope. 

 July-Aug. 



2. H)T)opitys lanuginosa (Michx.) Nutt. Hairy 

 Pine-sap. Fig. 3212. 



Monotropa lanuginosa Michx. FI. Bor. Am. 2 : 266. 1803. 

 Hypopitys lanuginosa Nutt. Gen. i : 271. 1818. 



Plants tawny and crimson, or sometimes pale, markedly 



or copiously pubescent. Stems 2-14' tall ; scales 2i"-3i" 



long; flowers few; sepals cuneate, oblanceolate or narrowly 



elliptic-spatulate, 3"-4i" long, acute or acuminate, ciliate 



with relatively long hairs ; petals cuneate to almost oblong, 



5"-5i" long, markedly pubescent without, ciliate like the 



sepals; style copiously pubescent ; stigma retrorsely bearded ; 



capsule globular, 2"-2i" long. 



In woods, Newfoundland and Quebec to Nova Scotia, On- 

 tario and Indiana, and southward, especially in and near the 

 mountains, to South Carolina and Tennessee, and to Florida. 

 June-Aug. This species and the preceding one were included 

 in H. Hypopitys, an Old World species, in our first edition. 



Family 4. ERICACEAE DC. Fl. Franc. 3 : 675. 1805. 



Heath Family. 



Shrubs, perennial herbs, or trees, with simple exstipulate leaves, and mostly 

 perfect, gamopetalous or polypetalous flowers. Calyx inferior, free from the 

 ovary, 4-5-parted or 4-5-cleft, mostly persistent. Corolla regular, or rarely 

 somewhat 2-lipped and irregular, usually 4-5-toothed, -lobed or -parted. Sta- 

 mens hypogynous, usually as many or twice as many as the corolla-lobes, teeth 

 or petals ; filaments mostly separate ; anthers 2-celIed, attached to the filaments 

 by the back or base, the sacs often prolonged upwardly into tubes, dehiscent by 

 terminal pores or chinks, or longitudinally, often awned. Disk crenate, lobed. 



