DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ledum. 
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MONOGYNIA. 
MONO'TROPA * Calyx none: Petals ten, (or eight; five or 
four. E.), the five outer ones hollowed at the base to con¬ 
tain honey : Caps . five-valved. 
(Dr. Hooker designates these parts differently ; thus “ Co¬ 
rolla five-cleft or five-petalled ; but to me what is usually 
in addition called a calyx appears to be nothing more 
than bractece or scales, alternating upon the foot-stalk of 
flowers as they do upon the stem.” E.) 
M. hypo'ptthys. (Lateral flowers with eight stamens and four petals: 
the terminal flowers with ten stamens and five petals. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 105. though the dissections do not exactly accord with the 
representations of some other authors. E .)—F. Bot. 69— FI. Dan. 232— 
Kniph. 10— Plot. Ox. 9. 6. at p. 146— H. Ox. xii. 16. 13.20. A. B. — Pluk. 
209. 5. 
{Stem scaly rather than leafy, mostly solitary, simple, cylindrical, five or 
six inches high. E.) Spikes at first drooping, when in fruit upright. 
The whole plant (succulent, turning black when dried, E.) is fragrant, 
and of a pale yellow colour, which peculiarity is generally confined to 
parasitic plants, and such as grow in very shady situations, (bearing 
scales rather than leaves, and destitute of verdure ; thus in general ap¬ 
pearance resembling Orobanche , but in particular structure very distinct. 
E.) 
Primrose-scented Bird’s-nest. (Yellow Bird’s-nest. E.) Shady 
woods, growing on the roots of other plants. (From the accurate obser¬ 
vations of Mr. Graves, (in FI. Lond.) this does not always appear to be the 
case : in some instances, they were decidedly not attached to, but only en¬ 
tangled with, the roots of plants, but sometimes connected with decayed 
leaves and other vegetable substances by a whitish fibrous matter. E.) In 
Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Bucks, Berks, and the Beech woods of Sussex. 
Woods near Uley, Gloucestershire. Mr. Baker. Shottisham, Norfolk. 
Mr. Crowe. In a Pine grove. Stoke, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Lord 
Stamford’s woods, at Envil, Staffordshire. (Beech Foot in Frith 
Wood, Pains wick. Mr. O. Roberts. At the north-west end of Selborne- 
hanger, Hants, under shady beeches, to whose roots it seems to be para¬ 
sitical. White’s Nat. Hist. E.) P. July. 
(LE'DUM. # Calyx five-toothed: Petals five, (five divisions. 
Gsert.): Stigma five lobed : Capsule five-celled, opening 
* (Compounded of y.ovos, one, and Tpen-w, to regard; alluding to the Linnaean prin¬ 
ciple of chiefly attending to the single terminal flower for the determination of the class 
and genus in preference to the lateral ones, as exemplified in the present genus, Hula , 
Ado.ra , &c. The older name derived from vno, under, and nnrvg a fir-tree, now retained 
for the species, was deemed objectionable by the great founder of our system. E.) 
t (A name adopted from the Greeks, whose AjjSov is generally believed to be a species 
of Cistus, and applied to the present genus, not very dissimilar, by Linnaeus. E ) 
