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Monotropa umflora. 



ing, terminal flower. Scale-like leaves small towards the root, larger 

 above, ovate-obtuse, nerved, the nerves from five to seven. Corolla 

 persistent, consisting of about eight petals, which arc channelled and 

 connected to the base of the germ. Stamina ten, filaments pubescent, 

 anthers kidney-shaped and horizontally peltate. Style small; stigma 

 smooth, orbicular, becoming pitcher-shaped, depressed in shape of a 

 hollow cone at the apex, having the margin viscid and raised by a 

 glandular structure. Capsule consisting of five cells and live valves, 

 containing a great number of very small, brownish seeds. Grows in 

 rich shady woods, flowering in May and June. 



The genus Monotropa, as modified by late botanists, contains but 

 two species. The present plant is the most common of them, and is 

 greatly prized by reason of its delicate appearance, every part of it 

 except the root and anthers being snow-white, and having the appear- 

 ance of the most delicate white wax preparation. It dries entirely 

 black, the anthers alone retaining their original colour. The figure 

 represents the plant the size of nature, and is left untinted, a delicate 

 engraving being the only mode of representing a pure white plant 



