26 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 29 
12. Pyrola chlorantha Sw. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Nya Handl. 31: 19 
Pyrola minor Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 299. 1814. Not P. minor L. 1753. 
Pyrola convolutae W. Barton, Fi. Phila. Prodr. 50. 1815. 
Pyrola asarifolia Radius, Diss. Pyr. 23, mainly. 1821. Not P. asarifolia Michx. 1803. 
Perennial, with a long slender rootstock; stem above ground very short; petioles 2-5 
em. long; leaf-blades suborbicular, 1-3 cm. long, rounded at the apex, from rounded to acute 
at the base, minutely crenulate, dark-green, rather dull; scape usually with a single, scale, 
including the inflorescence 1-2 dm. high; raceme 2-8-flowered; bracts lanceolate, shorter 
than the pedicels; pedicels 4—5 mm. long; sepals triangular, acutish or obtusish, about as 
broad as long; petals greenish-white, oval or elliptic, 5~6 mm. long; filaments dilated at the 
base; anthers oblong, mucronate at the distal end; tubes fully 0.5 mm. long, curved; pores 
oblique; style somewhat thickened upwards, strongly bent, longer than the petals; capsule 
depressed-globose, 6 mm. wide. 
TYPE LocaLiry: Near Stockholm, Sweden. 
DisTRIBuTION: Swamps, from Labrador and Newfoundland to Maryland, Nebraska, Arizona, 
California, and British Columbia; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Sv. Vet.-Akad. Nya Handl. 31: pl. 5; Radius, Diss. Pyr 4 (as P. asari- 
folia); Hook. Fi, Bor. Am. pl. 134; Sv. Bot. pl. 453; Fi. Dan. pl. 1693; Bot. cape fe 1542; Hayne, 
Arzn. Gew. 4: pl. 22 (as P. media); Reichenb. Fl. Germ. pl. 1154, f. 1, 2; Fl. Deuts. ed. 5. “al. 2046; 
Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2727; ed. 2. f. 3198; Henshaw, Mountain Fi, ‘Am. pl. 27, 
0. 1810. 
13. Pyrola elliptica Nutt. Gen. 1: 273. 1818. 
Pyrola reticulata Raf.; DC. Prodr. 7: 773, as synonym. 1839, 
Thelaia elliptica Alef. Linnaea 28: 47. 1856. 
Perennial, with a creeping rootstock; stem above ground very short; petioles 1-4 cm. 
long; leaf-blades oval, rounded at the apex, often acute at the base, 3-8 cm. long, 1.5-6 cm 
wide, rather thin, dull, denticulate; scape with 0-2 scales, including the inflorescence 1-2 cm. 
high; raceme 6—15-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, about equaling the pedicels, 5~6 mm. 
long; sepals triangular or shortly triangular-ovate, acute or short-acuminate, about 2 
mim, long and nearly as broad; petals white, obovate, about 6 mm. long; filaments dilated 
below; anthers dark-yellow, oblong, obtuse or mucronate at the distal end; tubes short, 
curved; pores suborbicular; style equaling or slightly exceeding the petals, strongly curved, 
thickened upwards; fruit 6—7 mm. thick. 
Type LocaLity: Philadelphia. 
DISTRIBUTION: Nova Scotia to Maryland, South Dakota, New Mexico, and British Columbia. 
ILLUSTRATION: Radius, Diss. Pyr. pl. 5, f. 1; Hook. Fil. Bor. Am. pl. 135; Linnaea 28: pl. 1, 
f. 5; Meeban, Nat. Fl. 2: pl. 32; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2728; ed. 2. f. 3199; Mathews, Field 
Book #l. opp. 324. 
14. Pyrola septentrionalis Andres, Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 63:71. 1913. 
Pyrola blanda Andres, Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 63: 72. 1913. 
Pyrola Conardiana Andres, Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 63: 73. 1913. 
Perennial, with a strong rootstock; stem above ground very short; leaves numerous; 
petiole as long as the blade or shorter; blades oval or ovate, rarely elliptic, acute, sharply den- - 
tate or serrate, dark-green above, dull, brownish beneath; scape 1-2 dm. high, with 1 or 2 
oval scales, reddish or purplish; raceme many-flowered; bracts lanceolate, as long as the 
pedicels, reflexed; sepals lanceolate, pointed, 3.5-5 mm. long, 1.5—-2.5 mm. wide; petals oval, 
6-9 mm. long, white or greenish-white with pale throat; anthers 2.5-3.5 mm. long; style thin, 
longer than the corolla. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Oregon. . : 
DistRrpuTion: Oregon and California. 
ILLUSTRATION: Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 63: 74. f. 1-13. 
15. Pyrola picta Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 29: Pyrola no. 8. 1814. 
Thelaia spathulata Alef. Linnaea 28: 45, in part. 1856. 
Perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stem above ground 1-5 cm. long; petioles 1-4 cm. 
long; leaf-blades ovate or rounded-ovate, usually acute at the apex, denticulate or entire, 
2-6 cm. long, 1-5 cm. wide, the upper surface green and white-mottled along the veins, the 
lower usually tinged with red or else pale; scape with 1-3 scales, including the inflorescence 1-2 
