428 MONOTROPACEAE sarcodes 



MONOTROPA 



inflexed, attached near the base, there dorsally 2-awned, the 

 slender awns deflexed, the cells opening lengthwise. Style short : 

 stigma 5-lobed. Capsule depressed-globose, 5-lobed, the thin 

 walls persistent after dehiscence, being attached by the partitions 

 to the columella. Seeds very numerous, the nucleus ovoid, with 

 a close thin coat, apiculate at both ends, the upper apiculation 

 bearing a broad thin wing. A single known species. 



P. Andromedea Nutt. 1. c. Stems several from a shallow seated per- 

 ennial root, 1-3 feet high or more, light brown or purplish, glandular 

 and viscid-pubescent throughout, bearing numerous lanceolate or linear 

 scales, and many flowers in a long raceme : pedicels slender, spreading, 

 soon recurved, 3-10 lines long: sepals oblong, 1-3 lines long: corolla 

 white, 3 lines long, viscid. Under pines, California to Brit. Columbia and 

 the Eastern States. 



3 SARCODES Torn Smithson. Contrib. iii, 17, t 10. 

 Low fleshy plants with numerous scale-like bracts and many 

 red flowers in a short terminal raceme. Sepals 5, erect, persist- 

 ent. Corolla cylindraceous-campanulate, with 5 barely spreading 

 lobes. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla; anthers linear-ob- 

 long, erect attached above the base, the 2 cells confluent through- 

 out, the whole apex opening by a large introrsely oblique terminal 

 pore. Ovary low-conical, 5-lobed. Style columnar, rather long: 

 stigma capitate, somewhat 6-Iobed. Capsule depressed, 5-lobed. 

 Seeds very numerous, oval, the coat reticulated, closely fitted to 

 the nucleus except a small conical protuberance at the apex. A 

 single known species. 



S. sanguinea Torr. 1. c. Whole plant bright red: stem stout, 6-18 

 inches high, thickly clothed with, when young, well imbricated, firm fleshy 

 scales ; lower scales ovate ; upper narrower and more scattered, and above 

 passing into the linear bracts of the thick raceme which subtend the red 

 flowers, all ciliate : pedicels erect, the upper ones very short : sepals ob- 

 long, 6-8 lines long, ciliate, a little shorter than the glabrous corolla. On 

 the high mountains of southern Oregon, 'California and Nevada. 



4 MONOTROPA L. Gen. n. 536, in part. 



Low fleshy plants with many scattered scale-like bracts and a 

 solitary nodding white flower. Calyx of 8-4 irregular sepals, or 

 perhaps bracts, the lower ones rather distant from the flower, de- 

 ciduous. Petals 5, rarely 6, erect, not saccate at base, tardily 

 deciduous. Stamens twice as many as petals: filaments filiform- 

 subulate : anthers somewhat reniform, opening at first by two 

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

 and equally spreading. Style short and thick: stigma funnel- 

 form, with naked edge. Capsule ovoid, erect in fruit. Seeds 

 small, very numerous, scobiform, the nucleus minute in the loose- 

 cellular elongated coat. A single species. 



M. uniflora L. Sp. 387. Bright white and glabrous throughout: 

 stems clustered, 6-13 inches high, rising from a thick and matted mass of 

 fibrous rootlets, 1-flowered, scaly: scales broadly lanceolate, entire: petals 



