234 EKICACE2E. 



color, sweet-scented; corolla 1 in. long or more, one or two of the segments 

 with a narrowly elliptic deep salmon-colored spot. — Mostly on dry slopes 

 of the mountains of Sonoma Co., from Mt. St. Helena to near Petaluma. 



6. CHIMAPHILA, Pursh. Low evergreen undershrubs, with rather 

 large serrulate leaves in irregular whorls, and a terminal naked umbel 

 of a few fragrant flowers. Corolla rotate; petals 5, orbicular, concave. 

 Stamens 10; filaments enlarged and hairy in the middle. Style inverse- 

 conic; stigma broad, orbicular. Fruit a depressed 5-lobed 5-celled cap- 

 sule opening loculicidally from the apex. 



1. C. Menziesii (Don.), Spreng. Leaves J^ — V/ % in. long, ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, purplish beneath, more or less 

 mottled or veined with white above: peduncle 1 — 3-flowered: filaments 

 villous. — Mt. Hamilton; and to be expected on Mt. Tamalpais; otherwise 

 a northern plant. 



7. PTROLA, Brunfels. Low perennial herbs. Leaves when present 

 ample, petiolate and near the ground. Scape scaly-bracted, bearing a 

 raceme at summit. Petals orbicular, concave, but more or less conver- 

 gent. Stigma 5-lobed. Capsule loculicidal, the valves separating from 

 below. 



1. P. picta, Smith. Leaves ovate, or ovate-oblong, on short or mar- 

 gined petioles, coriaceous, pale, veined or blotched with white: petals 

 greenish-white. — Reported from Mendocino Co., and likely to be found 

 within our limits. 



2. P. aphylla, Smith. Leafless; the stems red, 7 — 10 in. high, from 

 a scaly-bracted rootstock: lobes of the calyx ovate, acute, much shorter 

 than the obovate white petals. — Lower slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. 



