C 778 1 



Pyrola Umbellata. Umbelled Winter- 

 Green. 



C/^/} #»i Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. 5-partitus. Petala 5. Gzg/1 5-locularis, angulis de- 

 hifcens. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



PYROLA umbellata; pedunculis fubumbellatis. Linn. Flor, 

 Suec. 333, 363. Spec. Plant. 567. Willd. 2. 622. 

 Hort. Kew. 274. Reich. 2. 300. Gmel. Sib. 4. 

 p. 129. w. 18. Pollich. Pal. n. 398. Svenjk Bo- 

 tanik, t. 27. ifr/z Obf.fqfc. 1. p. 17. Michaux Ft. 

 Bor. Ant. 1. />. 251. 



PYROLA frutefcens arbuti folio. Bauh. Pin. 191. 



PYROLA 3-fruticans, Cluf. Pan. 507. RaiiHiJl. 1234, 



Pyrola umbellata, although widely diffufed through the 

 northern parts of Europe, Afia, and America, is not a 

 native of Great-Britain. Michaux remarks, that this fpecies, 

 with maculata t may perhaps conftitute a new genus differing 

 from the others in habit, in having a feffile undivided ftigma 

 and fhort beaked anthers with a fubbi valve foramen. Ret- 

 zius long ago obferved the diverfity of the ftigma, which is 

 different in almoft every fpecies, and the anthers of all we 

 believe have two openings at the bafe as in this : thefe open- 

 ings however, though at the bafe of the anther when the flower 

 firft begins to expand, become afterwards the upper part, the 

 pofition of the anther being reverfed by the filament becoming 

 incurved. 



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