RED COMANDRA 
Comandra livida Richardson 
Red comandra belongs to the Sandalwood Family, which has few 
tepresentatives in this country, most of its members being shrubs and 
trees of the tropics. It is parasitic on the roots of other plants, and it 
withers immediately when gathered. The light green flowers are 
small and inconspicuous, but the fruits, when they mature in mid- 
summer, ate of a vivid striking red. Two other comandras with 
greenish or yellowish fruits ate widely distributed in the United 
States. 
This species of comandra has a wide range, occurring from the 
mountains of Vermont to Labrador, and across Canada to British 
Columbia and even Alaska. 
We gathered the plant near Glacier Lake on the headwaters of 
the Saskatchewan River, fifty miles north of Lake Louise at an alti- 
tude of 6,000 feet, where this sketch was made. 
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