426 PYROLACEAE moneses 



CHIMAPHILA 



3 MONESES Salisb. in S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. PI, ii, 103. "»•■ 

 A low perennial with opposite or verticillate evergreen leaves 

 and a solitary drooping white or pink flower at the summit of a 

 slender scape. Calyx 4-5-parted, persistent. Petals 4 or 5, widely 

 spreading, sessile. Stamens 8 or 10, glabrous: anthers 2-beaked 

 at the base, reversed when mature, each cell opening by a basal 

 but apparently apical pore. Style straight : stigma peltate, large, 

 with 4 or 5 narrow lobes. Capsule subglobose, 4-o-lobed, 4-5- 

 celled, loculicidally 4-5-valved from the summit; the valves gla- 

 brous on the margins. Seeds numerous, minute, the testa reticu- 

 lated, produced at both ends. 



M. uniflora Gray Man. 273. Stem very short and decumbent, leafy: 

 leaves orbicular to ovate, petioled, serrulate, 6-20 lines long: scape 2-6 

 inches high : flower white to rose-color, 6-10 lines broad : calyx-lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, about one-fifth the length of the broadly ovate or orbicular petals : 

 capsule erect, 3-4 lines in diameter. In forests, Oregon to Alaska and 

 across the Continent. Europe and Asia. 



3 CHIMAPHILA Pursh Fl. i, 279. 

 Low perennials with opposite or verticillate evergreen leaves 

 and spreading or nodding white or purplish flowers in terminal 

 corymbs. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5, con- 

 cave, sessile, spreading or recurved. Stamens 10 ; filaments short, 

 dilated, and mostly hairy in the middle; cells of the anthers ob- 

 long, with a short narrow neck. Style very short, obconic, im- 

 mersed in the umbilicate summit of the globose ovary: stigma 

 orbicular-peltate, barely 5-crenate. Capsule erect, globose, 5- 

 lobed, 5-celled, loculicidally 5-valved from the top, the valves not 

 woolly on the margins. Seeds very numerous, the testa reticu- 

 lated, produced at both ends. 



C. umbellata Nutt. Gen. i, 274. Stem stout, 4-12 inches high, very 

 leafy, often branched : leaves cuneate-oblanceolate with tapering base, 

 sharply serrate, not spotted, bright green and shining, 1-3 inches long: 

 flowers several, umbellate or subcorymbose, white or pinkish : bracts nar- 

 row, deciduous : filaments hairy on the margins only. In dry woods, 

 California to Alaska and across the Continent. 



C. Menziesii Spreng. Syst. ii, 317. Slender, 3-10 inches high, spar- 

 ingly branched from the base: leaves from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute at both ends, small, sharply serrate, the upper surface often mottled 

 with white : peduncle 1-3-flowered : tiracts ovate or roundish : filaments 

 slender, with a round dilated portion in the middle villous : flowers about 

 half-inch in diameter ; petals dull white. In forests, California to Brit. Col. 



Order LVI. MONOTROPACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 3, 219. 



Leafless fleshy herbs with the flowers in spikes, racemes, capi- 

 tate, or solitary. Flowers regular and perfect. Calyx of 3-6 

 erect lobes or segments or imbricated sepals, free from the ovary. 

 Corolla 4-5-lobed, or of 3-6 petals, rarely wanting, imbricated. 

 Stamens 6-13, hypogynous : filaments equal, distinct, or connate 

 at base; anthers 3-celled, or confluently 1-celled, attached to t'.c 



