INDIAN PIPE FAMILY. Monotropaceae. 
yellowish, tinged with red or pink, and though interesting 
is not so delicately pretty as Indian Pipe. It seems to bea 
stouter plant around Mt. Rainier than in the East and 
grows in thick woods, across the continent and in Europe 
and Asia. H. sanguinea is a new kind, recently discovered 
in the Arizona mountains; six to twelve inches tall, growing 
in dense shade at high altitudes, and brilliant red through- 
out. | 
The only kind, found only in North 
ee America, a strange plant, harmonious in 
ree color, with a fleshy, brownish or reddish 
White stem, from one to four feet tall, with 
Summer yellowish bracts and covered with sticky 
payin me hairs, springing from a mass of matted, 
continent 
fibrous, astringent roots. The flowers are 
a quarter of an inch long, with pink pedicels, brownish 
bracts, a brownish-pink calyx, with five lobes, and an 
ivory-white corolla, with five teeth; the stamens ten, not 
protruding; the style short, with a five-lobed stigma; the 
capsule roundish, five-lobed, with many winged seeds. 
We often find dead insects stuck to the stem. In win- 
ter, the dry, dark red stalks, ornamented with pretty 
seed-vessels, are attractive in the woods. This usually 
grows among pine trees, across the continent, but no- 
where common. The Greek name means ‘‘wing-seeded.”’ 
It is also called Giant Bird’s-nest and Albany Beech- 
drops. Allétropa virgata, of the Northwest, is similar, but 
smaller, with five, roundish sepals and no corolla. 
There are two kinds of Pleuricospora; 
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aa rénoy this is from three to eight inches tall, with 
Pleuricéspora 
jfimbriolata flowers half an inch long, deliciously fra- 
Flesh-color grant, with four or five, scale-like, fringed 
Summer : 
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hstanuze sepals, four or five, separate, fringed 
petals, resembling the sepals, and eight 
or ten stamens. The ovary is egg shaped, one-celled, with 
a thick style and flattish stigma, and the fruit is a watery 
berry. If the waxy, flesh-colored flowers were set off by 
proper green leaves they would be exceedingly pretty, but 
they are crowded on a fleshy stem, of the same color as 
themselves, mixed with fringed bracts, with brownish 
scales instead of leaves, and have an unnatural appearance. 
I found thirty of these curious plants, growing in a little 
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