Parr 1, 1914] PYROLACEAE 25 
3 mm. long, rounded at the distal end; tubes very short, somewhat curved; style not exceed- 
ing the petals, strongly thickened upwards. 
Type collected on the Mackenzie River, I. S. Onion (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
Distrrmution: Northwest Territory, Canada, from English River to Fort Norman on the 
Mackenzie; Alaska, 
9. Pyrola Gormanii Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Perennial, with a long creeping rootstock; stem above ground very short; petioles 2-4 
em. long; leaf-blades oval or orbicular, usually acutish at each end, denticulate by the excurrent 
veins, 2-4 em. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, green but rather dull above, sometimes mottled along the 
veins, pale or pinkish beneath; scape, including the inflorescence, 1-2 dm. high; racemes 3-10- 
flowered; bracts lanceolate, pinkish, longer than the pedicels; sepals lanceolate, acute, 3 mm. 
long; petals elliptic, 7 mm. long, brownish-white, veined with purplish; filaments slightly 
dilated below; anthers about 2 mm. long, rounded at the distal end; tubes very short, almost 
straight;.style about equaling the petals; capsule depressed-globose, 6 mm. thick. 
Type collected in Dry Gulch, Yukon Territory, June 14, 1899, Gorman 1029, in part * (herb. 
N.Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Yukon Territory. 
10. Pyrola grandiflora Radius, Diss. Pyr. 27. 1821. 
Pyrola rotundifolia pumila Hornem. Dansk Oecon, Pl. ed. 3. 463. 1821, 
Pyrola pumila Hornem.; Cham. & Schlecht. Linnaea 1: 514. 1826. 
Pyrola groenlandica Hornem. Fl. Dan. pl. 1817. 1840. 
Thelaia grandiflora Alef. Linnaea 28: 68. 1856. 
Perennial, with a creeping rootstock; stem above ground almost none; petioles 1—4 cm. 
long; leaf-blades orbicular or round-oval, rounded at both ends, scarcely crenulate, thick, 
reddish-brown beneath or somewhat golden above, sometimes pale along the veins, 1.5—4 cm. 
long, 1.5-3.5 em. wide; scape with 1 or 2 scales, including the inflorescence less than 2 dm. 
high; racemes 5—8-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long; sepals elliptic or lance-elliptic, 
3-3.5 mm. long, about 1.5 mm: wide, crenulate, rounded or obtuse, rarely acutish at the apex; 
petals white or tinged with rose, suborbicular, 6-7 mm. long; filaments dilated at the base; 
anthers light-yellow or pinkish, 2.5 mm. long, obtuse at the distal end; tubes short, curved; 
style short, not exceeding the petals, thickened upwards. 
Type LocaLiry: Labrador. 
DistRIBuTION: Arctic and subarctic regions, from Greenland to Newfoundland and the Mac- 
kenzie River. 
InLustRatTiIons: Radius, Diss. Pyr. pl. 3, f. 2; Linnaea 28: pl. 2, f. 12; Fl. Dan. pl. 1817; E. 
& P. Nat. Pfl. 41: f. 5, F-K. 
11. Pyrola occidentalis R. Br.; D. Don, Mem. Wern. 
Soc. 5: 232. 1824. 
Thelaia occidentalis Alef. Linnaea 28: 36. 1856. 
Perennial, with a long creeping rootstock; stem above ground very short; petioles 1-3 
cm. long; leaf-blades oval or orbicular, rather thin, rounded to acutish at each end, subentire, 
only the ends of the veins forming minute callosities, green on both sides or slightly reddish 
beneath, 2-3 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide; scape with 1 or 2 scales, including the inflorescence 
7-15 cm. high; raceme short, 3—-6-flowered; bracts narrowly ovate to lanceolate, acute, 4-5 
mum. long; sepals oblong or elliptic, 2-2.5 mm. Jong, 1-1.5 mm. wide, sometimes tinged with 
pink, rounded or obtuse at the apex; petals whitish, veiny, obovate, 5-6 mm. long; filaments 
filiform; anthers 2 mm. long, oblong, obtuse at the distal end, truncate at the ‘proximal end, 
without tubular prolongation; style curved, slender, scarcely thickened upwards, not longer 
than the petals. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sledge Island [near Nome], Alaska. 
DistRIBUTION: Northwestern Alaska. 
ILLUSTRATION: Linnaea 28: pl. 1, f. 1. 
* Gorman 1029 in the U. S. Nat. Herb. belongs to P. borealis, while Gorman 1028 in that 
herbarium belongs to P. Gormanii. 
