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P. andromedea, Nutt. A chestnut-colored or purplish herb, glandular and clammy- 

 pubescent : simple stem 1 to 3 feet high, bearing small and scattered lanceolate scales : 

 raceme long and many-flowered : pedicels slender, spreading, soon recurved : corolla white, 

 a quarter inch long, somewhat viscid. — Gen. i. 386 ; Lindl. Coll. t. 5. — Under pines and 

 oaks, N. W. New England, Canada, and Pennsylvania to Br. Columbia and California : 

 fl. summer. 



30. SARC6DES, Torr. Snow-Plant. (Zunxoeid,'^, flesh-like or fleshy, 

 from the appearance of this singular plant.) — Torr. PI. Frem. in Smithson. Con- 

 trib. iii. 17, t. 10. — A single species. 



S. sanguinea, Torr. Stout fleshy herb, a span to a foot high, of flesh-red color, 

 somewhat glandular-pubescent, thickly clothed and when young imbricated with the firm 

 fleshy scales : lower scales ovate ; upper narrower, more scattered, and above passing into 

 linear bracts of the thick spike or raceme which subtend and mostly exceed the reddish 

 flowers: pedicels erect, the upper ones very short: corolla glabrous, half inch long. — PI. 

 Frem. 1. c. ; Chatin, Anat. t. 55 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 607 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 462.— 

 California, in coniferous woods of the Sierra Nevada, 4-9,000 feet, shooting up and flower- 

 ing soon after the snow melts away. 



31. SCHWEINlTZIA, Ell. Sweet Pine-sap. (Named in honor of the 

 late Louis David von Schweinitz.) — Flowers exhaling the odor of violets, produced 

 in spring. Anthers in the young flower-bud turned at right angles to the fila- 

 ment, so that apex and base are directed right and left; in anthesis becoming 

 vertical. — A single species. 



S. odorata, Ell. Plant light brown, in tufts, 2 to 4 inches high, glabrous, beset with 

 thinnish ovate or oblong scales, and similar bracts, spicately several-flowered : spike nod- 

 ding in flower, erect in fruit : corolla flesh-color, a quarter inch long. — Ell. in Nutt. Gen. 

 addend. & Sk. i. 478 ; Gray, Chloris, 15, t. 2. S. Caroliniana, Don, Syst. iii. 867. Mono- 

 tropsis odorata, Schweinitz in Ell. I.e. — Moist woods, Maryland (near Baltimore) to 

 North Carolina in and near the mountains, parasitic on the roots of herbs or on decaying 

 vegetable matter. 



32. MON6TROPA, L. Indian Pipe, Pine-sap. (Movog, one, and tqotzoi;, 

 turn, the summit of the stem in flower turned to one side or drooping.) — White, 

 tawny, or reddish scaly and fleshy herbs, a span or two high ; the clustered stems 

 rising (in summer) from a thick and matted mass of fibrous rootlets, one-several- 

 flowered ; the summit of the stem straightening in fruit. — Comprises two very 

 distinct subgenera, in Benth. &• Hook. Gen. ii. 607 restored as genera. 



§1. Eumonotropa. (Indian Pipe.). Plant inodorous, 1-flowered : scales 

 passing into an imperfect or irregular calyx of 2 to 4 loose sepals or perhaps 

 bracts ; the lower ones rather distant from the flower : anthers opening at first by 

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

 spreading : style short and thick : edge of the stigma naked. 



M. unifiora, L. Smooth plant a span or so high, waxy-white (blackish in drying), rarely 

 flesh-color : nodding flower two-thirds inch long : petals 5, rarely 6. — Lam. 111. t. 352 ; 

 Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. iii. t. 86, f. 1 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 85 ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. t. 71 ; Chatin, Anat. 

 t. 50. M. unifiora & M. Morisoniana, Michx. Fl. i. 266. M. Morisoni, Pers. (Moris. Hist, 

 iii. 502 (12), t. 16, f. 5; Pluk. Aim. t. 209, f. 2.) — Damp woods, nearly throughout the 

 U. S., Brit. Amer., &c. (Mex., Japan to India.) 



§ 2. Htpopitys. (Pine-sap.) Plant often violet-scented, commonly pubes- 

 cent, at least above, racemosely 3-several-flowered : terminal flower earliest and 

 usually 5-merous and the lateral 3-4-merous : sepals less bract-like, as many as 



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