Parr 1, 1914] PYROLACEAE 23 
2. Pyrola bracteata Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:47. 1834, 
Thelaia bracteosa Alef. Linnaea 28: 57, in part. 1856. 
Pyrola bracteata Hillit J. K. Henry, Torreya 14: 32. 1914. : 
Perennial, with a long creeping scaly rootstock; stem above ground 1-5 em. long; petioles 
2-6 dm. long; leaf-blades from orbicular or oval to broadly ovate or subcordate, usually acute 
at the apex, denticulate, the teeth formed by the excurrent veins, 3-8 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, 
dark-green and shining above, reddish or brownish beneath; scape, including inflorescence, 
2-4 dm. long, with 1 or 2 scales below the inflorescence; raceme 10-25-flowered; bracts lanceo- 
late or ovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, acuminate, tinged with rose color; pedicels about 5 mm. long; 
sepals deltoid-lanceolate, tapering gradually from the base, about 4 mm. Jong, about 2 
mum. broad at the base, sharply acute or acuminate; petals oval, 6-7 mm. long, purple or rose- 
colored; anthers pinkish or yellowish, nearly 3 mm. long, apiculate at the distal end; style 
strongly curved, in flower 6-7 mm., in fruit 8-9 mm. long, slightly thickened upwards; stigmas 
soon longer than the width of the collar; capsule depressed-globose, about 8 mm. wide. 
‘Type Locatiry: Northwest coast of America. 
DIstRIBuUTION: Open woods, from Oregon and Idaho to Montana and British Columbia. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 30: 563. f. I, 6. 
3. Pyrola uliginosa T. & G.; Torr. Fl. N. Y. 1: 453. 1843. 
Pyrola elata Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 270. 1843. 
Thelaia asarifolia Atef. Linnaea 28: 54,in part. 1856. 
Thelaia bracteosa Alef. Linnaea 28: 57. 1856. 
Pyrola rotundifolia incarnata A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am, 21: 47, in part. 1878. Not P. rotundifolia 
incarnata DC. 1839, 
Pyrola asarifolia incarnata Fernald, Rhodora 6: 178. 1904. 
Perennial, with a long creeping branched rootstock; stem above ground very short; 
petioles 2~10 cm. long; leaf-blades orbicular to oval, acute at the base, rounded or rarely 
acutish at the apex, 2-7 cm. long, 1.5—6 cm. wide, dark-green above, paler or sometimes reddish 
or brownish beneath, crenulate, the veins not excurrent; scape with 1-3 scales, including the 
raceme 2-4 dm. long; bracts lanceolate, pinkish, about equaling the pedicels, which are 
about 4 mm. long; flowers 5-20; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm. long, 2 
mm. wide, widest just above the base, acute; petals oval, purple, rose, or pink, about 6 mm. 
long; anthers pinkish, mucronate at the distal end; tubes curved; style in flower 7-8 mm. long, 
in fruit 8-9 mm. long, thickened upwards; stigmas at last longer than the width of the collar; 
fruit depressed-globose, about 8 mm. thick. 
Type Locality: Oriskany, Oneida County, New York. 
DISTRIBUTION: Bogs, meadows, and copses, from Nova Scotia to New York, South Dakota, 
Colorado, Oregon, and Alaska. 
ILLusTRaTions: Torr. Fl. N. Y. pl. 69; Linnaea 28: pl. 2, f. 9; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2729; 
ed. 2. f. 3200; Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 30: 563, f. J, 4; 568, f. II, 2, 3; Brown & Schaffer, Alp. Pl. Can. 
pl. 56, f. a, b; Henshaw, Mountain Fl. Am. fl. 27 (as P. asarifolia). 
4, Pyrola asarifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:251. 1803. 
Pyrola rotundifolia asarifolia Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 46. 1834, 
Thelaia asarifolia Alef. Linnaea 28: 54. 1856. 
Perennial, with a slender creeping rootstock; stem above ground very short; petioles 
2-7 em. long; leaf-blades from suborbicular to rounded-reniform, usually cordate or subcordate 
at the base, 2-5 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, thick, dark-green and shining above, usually brownish 
or reddish beneath, crenulate, the veins not excurrent; scape with 1 or 2 scales, including the 
inflorescence 1-2.5 dm. long; bracts reddish, lanceolate, scarcely equaling the pedicels; pedicels 
about 4 mm. long; flowers 5-15; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about 3 mm. long and 
2 mm. wide, widest just above the base; petals oval, pink or purple, about 5 mm. long; fila- 
ments dilated below; anthers 2—-2.5 mm. long, mucronate at the distal end; style in flower 7-8 
mim., in fruit 8-9 mm. long, thickened upwards; stigmas shorter than the width of the 
collar; fruit depressed-globose, 7-8 mm. thick. 
TYPE LocaLity: Not given. 
DISTRIBUTION: Bogs and wet woods from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts, South Dakota, New 
Mexico, and Yukon Territory. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2730; ed. 2. f. 3201; Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 30: 563. 
f. I, 4; 568. f. II, 1; Mathews, Field Book 325. 
