404 166. Moneses. 36. ERICINJE. 
PL ex. cal. 
Moist places in alpine woods; perennial; July. 
Peduncles upright ; flowers smell like the may-lily, white, 
with reddish lines. 
C. Monotrop^:. Anthers peltate, horizontal, 1-celled, not 
opening by 2 foramens ; plant leafless, parasitical. 
XIII. 167. HYPOPITYS. Dillenius. Pine-sap. 
Calyx 3 to 5-parted; corolla 3 to 5-parted, falling off, 
lobes hooded at the bottom; stamens 6 to 10, 2 at the base 
of each lobe ; anthers small, horizontal, 1-celled, opening 
flat at last ; stigma orbicular, edge bearded ; capsule 5-celled, 
5-valved; seeds many, awlshape, minute, winged. — Plant 
parasitic, destitute of verdure, odour musty ; root fibrous ; 
stems aggregate, simple, enlarged at bottom, fleshy, scaly ; 
scales imbricate below, alternate above ; racemes first bent, 
then upright ; flowers pedicelled ; bractea 1 to each flower. 
Hypopitys lutea. Yellow pine-sap. 
Plant yellow, bald; flowers peduncled, 3 or 4-cut; ter- 
minal flower 5-cut. 
Hypopitys lutea, Rail Syn. 317, 1. 
Monotropa Hypopithys, Lin.S. P. 555. 
Hypopitys europaea, Nutall Gen. 
Yellow Birds-nest. 
On the roots of birches or pines ; perennial ; June. 
Herb on drying becomes black, and acquires a stronger 
odour ; hr acted scaly . 
Fam. II. 37. VACCINIEiE. De Candolle. Ericacearum 
pars, Ventenat. Ericarum pars , Jussieu. 
Bicornum pars , Linnaeus. Vacciniorum 
pars , Adanson. 
Calyx 1 -leafed, not cut or toothed, small, adherent to 
the ovary; corolla hypogynous, 1-petaled, 4 or 5-parted, 
regular, falling off’; aestivation imbricate ; stamens definite, 
$ or 10, 2 at the base of each lobe, hypogynous; anthers 
opening by 2 pores ; ovary adherent, many-celled ; style 1 ; 
stigma 1, either cut or not; berry umbiiicated, 4 or 5-celled ; 
cells many-seeded ; seeds on a central spermophore ; peri- 
sperm fleshy ; corculum nearly as long as the perisperm ; 
cotyledons very short ; radicle very long, below. 
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