
INDIAN PIPE FAMILY. Monotropaceae. 
ing; stamens six to twelve; Ovary superior; fruit a 
capsule. 
The only kind, a strange plant, widely 
Snow-plant = z 
Sagi aa celebrated for its peculiar beauty. The 
sanguinea Mame is misleading, for the splendid 
Red creatures push their way, not through the 
Spring, summer 
Ca Ore, Hee but through the dark forest carpet 
of pine-needles, soon after the snow has 
melted. The fleshy stems are from six inches to over a 
foot. tall, the leaves reduced to red scales, and the bell- 
shaped flowers, with five lobes, are crowded towards the 
upper half of the stem and mingled with long, graceful, 
curling, red bracts. The plants are shaded with red all 
over, from flesh color, to rose, carmine, and blood- red, and 
are translucent in texture, so that when a shaft of sunlight 
strikes them they glow with wonderful brilliance, almost 
as if lighted from within. They sometimes grow aS many 
as fifteen together, and are found in the Sierras, up to nine 
thousand feet. They are pointed out to tourists by Yo- 
Semite stage drivers, but the government forbids their 
being picked, for fear of extermination. 
Indian Pipe The only American kind, an odd plant, 
Monétropa all translucent white, beautiful but un- 
uniflora natural, glimmering in the dark heart of 
White the forest like a pallid ghost, mournfully 
Summer A : 
West, pay changing to gray and black as it fades. 
The stem is about six inches tall, springing 
fan a mass of fibrous roots and bearing a single flower, 
beautiful but scentless, about three-quarters of an inch 
long, with two to four sepals, five or six petals, and ten or 
twelve stamens, with pale yellow anthers. Sometimes the 
whole plant is tinged with pink. This grows in rich moist 
woods, almost throughout temperate and warm North 
America, in Japan and India, and is also called Ghost- 
flower and Corpse-plant. 
There are two kinds of Hypopitys. 
apie This is much like the last, but not so 
eT pallid, with several stout stems, about 
(Monotropa) eight inches tall, bearing a long one-sided 
Flesh-color cluster of flowers, sometimes slightly 
Gases fragrant, each about half an inch long. 
West, etc. 
The whole plant is waxy, flesh-color or 
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