990 PYROLACEAE 
Style iio de flowers racemose: filaments unappendaged: capsule opening from 
base 1. PxROLA. 
Style Pa Ee flowers corymbed or umbelled : Dens appen- 
daged at the base: capsule opening from top to bas 2. CHIMAPHILA. 
1 PYROLA [Tourn.] L. Leaves with broad blades. Flowers Mni 
greenish, or pink, in elongate ra Filaments unappendaged, glabro 
Capsule nodding, the Bii URN —About 18 species, widely i 
tributed in temperate and cool regions.—Sum. odisea SHIN-LEAFS. 
Leaf-blades deu dou: calyx-lobes mainly longer than the tube: filaments less 
than twice as long as the anthers. 1. P. americana. 
Leaf-blades elliptic: oval or oblong: calyx-lobes mainly shorter 
than the tube: filaments over twice as long as the anthers. 2. P. elliptica. 
P. americana Sweet. Plant 2-3 dm. tall: leaf-blades thickish, 2—3 cm. long, 
ostly shorter than the petiole: ied elliptic or lanceolate, 9.3 mm. lon ng: 
cas oo to orbicular-obovate, 7-9 mm. long: 
capsule 6-7 wide. [P. re Michx. not 
.]—Woo ods, "Blue Ridge, N. C. Tenn., various 
provinees, Va. to Wise. and N. S 
elliptica Nutt. Plant 1-3 dm. tall: leaf- 
blades thinnish, 3-9 em. long, mostly eae than the 
petiol sepals triangular ovate: pet oblon ^E 3 
Slliptic- -obovate, 5.5-7 long: dir 9-6 
wide.—Th iekets = woods, Blue Ridge, "Te enn., und 
various provinces, o N. . C., On t., and 
Va.—The petals x: pene species are usually white, 
but pink tinged corollas occur in occasional forms. 
2. CHIMAPHILA Pursh. Leaves with relatively narrow blades. Flowers 
white, in corymbs. Filaments with pubescent or erose-eiliate appendages at the 
base. Capsule erect, the valve-margins glabrous.—About 7 species, distributed 
from the equator to the Arctic regions.—Sum.—PIPSISSEWAS. 
Sepals longer than wide: petals ciliolate all around: fiülament-appendages pubescent. 
1. C. maculata. 
d wider than long: petals erose-ciliolate and jagged at the 
; filament-appendages erose-ciliate. 2. C. corymbosa. 
1. C. maculata i ps Plant 7—22 em. tall: M blades lanceolate or 
pA ae em. long, dark- pun with whitish veins: inflorescence 
usual 1 d see rounded the ; 
eiliolate: etas white, 10-12 mm. T filament- & 
appendages narr POTTED-WINTERGREEN.) — Dry 
woods, various iom Ga. to Ala., Minn., and Me. 
orymbosa Pursh. Plant 9-32 e tall: leaf- 
blades incen cuneate, or pe cuneate, 2-10 
. long, d e o 
lly 
apex, erose: petals 9-11 mm. long, white except 
the pink base: filaments rg broad appendages 
purplish-pink. — (PRINCE’S-PINE. ) — Dry a acid woods, 
Blue Ridge, Ga. to N. C., and various provinces, Va. to Wise. and N. S.— 
Chimaphila mexicana is sometimes included in C. maculata. C.domingensis and 
C. guatemalensis, of San nto Domingo and Central America, respectively, have 
sometimes been included in C. corymbosa. Hence the ranges of the above 
species are sometimes sanded into the tropics. 
