Plate 6. 
FIR RAPE, 
FINE 
BIRD'S 
NEST. 
THE BIRD'S-NEST RAM IDT (ORDER xlv. MONOTROPACEAE.) 
CALYX of 4 or 5 SEPALS scale-like, coloured like petals (petaloidpunitedatthe base 
or free, wholly free from and. inserted belov/ the seedcase (inferior) 
COROLLA of 4 or 5 PETALS the same number as the sepals,; 
united, at the base or free, bell-shaped (campanulate), , 
each petal having, a pouched honey-bearing base, in- 
serted below the seedcase (hypogynous). 
STAMENS 8 orio, twice as many as the petals, with their 
anthers kidney-shaped creniforrm, i-cellcd; 
and splitting cross-wise (transversely) 
to free the pollen, inserted with the corolla: 
below the seedcase < hypogynous ). 
PISTIL of 4 or s CARRELS, the same numb- 
er as the petals, united into a seedcase, a short style and 
a broad stigma. 
PRU1T a capsule, 4- or 5-ccllcd.,many-secdcd, opening by 
5 valves down the middle of each cell doc ulicidal). 
FLOWERS drooping, flesh-colour cr yellowish, in spike- 
like clusters (racemes) or solitary, with fleshy bracts 
at the bases of the flowers. 
STEMS thick and fleshy. 
LEAVES absent, their place being taken by small brown- 
ish or yellowish scales or bracts. 
DISTINGUISHED from the Heath Family, with which it 
is often united, by the i-celled kidney-shaped anthers 
opening transversely by slits, and by the absence of 
leaves and green colouring - matter. 
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HYPCPITYS 
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