Oliver —On Sarcodes sanguined , Torr. 305 
The plant is vegetatively reproduced, I apprehend, by buds 
from the roots in the same manner as Monotropa ; new 
flowering shoots arising in this way each spring. Besides 
this, the number of seeds formed is very great 
The following is Torrey’s original description of the plant : — 
‘ Sarcodes, Torr . in Plantae Fremontianae, p. 17, tab. x. 
‘ Calyx quinquesepalus ; sepalis concavis, basi vix gibbosis. 
Corolla campanulata, persistens, quinquelobata ; lobis ovatis, 
erectis. Stamina 10, hypogyna ; filamenta subulato-filiformia ; 
antherae oblongae, biloculares, didymae, fere ad basim 
introrsum affixae ; loculis sacculaeformibus, apice oblique trun- 
catis, foramine amplo hiantibus. Ovarium hemisphaericum, 
quinquelobatum, quinqueloculare ; loculis multiovulatis. Ovula 
horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus elongato-columnaris ; stigma 
capitatum, subquinquelobum. Discus nullus. Capsida de- 
presso-globosa, subquinqueloba, quinquelocularis. Semina 
numerosissima, ovata, aptera ; testa reticulata. Embryo in 
basi albuminis, minutissimus, indivisus. — Herba California , 
cantos a , rubra; caule simplici , squamis car no sis vestito, in 
spicam confer te bracteatam desinens ; floribus pedicellatis. 
4 S. sanguinea , Torr. 1 . c. (sp. unica). Hab. Sacramento 
Valley, California. Colonel Fremont.’ 
The specimens on which this paper is based were collected 
by Messrs, Godman and Elwes near San Bernardino in the 
San Bernardino range, some 250 miles south of the Sacra- 
mento Valley where the specimens described by Torrey were 
taken. This then considerably extends the range of the plant. 
The structure of the vegetative and floral organs of Sarcodes 
will now be considered in detail. 
The Vegetative Organs. 
The vegetative organs of Sarcodes agree in general, both 
in external conformation as well as in histological dif- 
ferentiation, with those of a large number of other sapro- 
phytic phanerogams destitute of chlorophyll. The organs in 
general are fleshy; the leaves are reduced to scaly imbri- 
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