Japan Flora: Pale yellow-brown, rather fleshy saprophytic herb becoming black when dry, usually pubescent on stems and inflorescence; scales 20-30, suberect, ovate-oblong or broadly lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, usually acuminate, the upper ones often irregularly toothed, rather fleshy; flowers few, tubular-campanulate, 1-1.5 cm. long, in a nodding raceme; petals cuneate-oblong, deciduous after anthesis, rather fleshy, saccate at base, rounded to obtuse and irregularly toothed at apex; capsules ellipsoid-globose, 5-7 mm. long; style rather thick, 3-5 mm. long. July. Woods in mountains;

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Europe, Siberia, Sakhalin, s. Kuriles, China, Formosa, Korea, Manchuria, and N. America.