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5. P. waculata, L. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, obtuse at base, rigidly 

 and incisely serrate, discolored ; peduncle 2 to 3-flowered. Beck, 

 Bot. p. 227. 



Chimaphila maculata. Pursh, Am. I. p. 300. Mutt. Gen. I. p. 275. 

 Bart. Phil. 1. p. 204. Ell. Sk. I. p. 505. Bart. Am. Up. 40 (Icon, 

 tab. 11.). Florid. Cestr.p.bl. Lindl. Ency.p. 362. Eat. Man. p. 92. 



Spotted PiTiiola. Vulgo — Spotted Winter-green. 



Root creeping, long. Stem assurgent, 2 to 4 inches high, fruticose. Leaves 1 to 

 2 or 2 and a half inches long, and 1 third to 3 fourths of an inch wide, smooth and 

 coriaceous, with a whiiish line along the midrib and nerves above, purplish 

 beneath, the upper ones In one or two verticils of 3 or 4 leaves each, near tho 

 summit of the stem, tapering to an acute point,— and often a pair of ovate opposite 

 ones below ; petioles 1 to 2 or 3 lines long. Common peduncle terminal, mostly 

 solitary (sometimes 2 or 3, as in the preceding), 3 to 4 or 5 inches long, puberulent, 

 bearing 2 or 3 Howers in an umbellate manner (sometimes but I) ; pedicels half an 

 inch to an inch and half long, often with a minute subulate bract near the middle. 

 Calyx 5*partod ; segments ovale, obtuse, ciliate. Petals white, with a tinge of 

 purple, broad-obovate, obtuse, concave, ciliate. Stamens short ; filaments dilated 

 ai base inio a spatulate-obcordato disk, which is densely villosc at summit and on 

 the margins ; anthers large, the oriilce of the pores spreading, 3-cornered, or some- 

 what 3-lobed. Ovary depressed-globose, with a margined ring at base; style 

 short, thick, obconic, partly immersed in the umbiiicate depression of tho ovary ; 

 stigma peltate, orbicular, convex, glandular-viscid, separable into 5 lobes. Cap- 

 sule nearly as in the preceding species* 



Hab. Woodlands: common. Fl. June. Fr. September. 



Obs. This species, erroneously called Pipsissaica, by Pursh % possesses proper- 

 ties similar, but inferior in degree, to those of the preceding. Five or six additional 

 species are enumerated in the U. States. 



212. MONOTROPA. L. Mutt. Gen. 388. 

 [Greek, Monos, one, unAjrepofUk turn ; its flowers turning chiefly to one side.] 



Perianth corolla-like, pseudo-polypctalous, persistent ; outer petals gib* 

 boas at base. Stamens somotimes 8 ; anthers 1-celled, bilabiate. Stig- 

 ma orbicular, umbiiicate, or depressed. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved. 

 Seeds numerous, invested with an arillus-like membrane. 



Herbaceous: destitute of verdure; leafless; flowers on scapes, racemose, or 

 solitary and terminal. Nat. Ord. 173. Lindl. Pyrolacejb. 



* Scape many-fio-wered. Hypopitbts. Mutt. 



1. M. lanuginosa, Mx. Scape pubescent above, bearing the flowers 

 in a raceme ; bracts and flowers tomentose-pubescent ; stamens 8. Beck 9 

 Bot. p. 228. 



Hypopithys lanuginosa. Mutt. Gen. I. p. 271. Bart. Phil. 1./>.201, 

 Eat. Man. p. 185. 



Woolly Monotropa. Vulgo — Pine-sap. False Beech-drops. 



Whole plant orange tawny, or tan-color, and of a musky odor. Root peren- 

 nial? squamose, parasitic? Leaves none. Scapes clustered, erect, 4 to 6 (and some- 

 times 12 or 15) inches high, mostly simple, angular, smooth below, pubescent 

 above, furnished with lance-ovate scales, which are crowded and imbricated at 

 base, more distant above, and become bracts to the pedicels, in the raceme at 

 summit. Raceme 1 or 2 to G inches long, at first recurved, or convolute, with tho 



