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dm. high, often brownish; raceme 5-15-flowered; bracts lanceolate, purple-tinged, much 
shorter than the pedicels; pedicels about 5 mm. long; sepals about 1.5 mm. long and 
broad, ovate-deltoid, acute; petals greenish-white or brownish without; filaments dilated 
below; anthers oblong, apiculate at the distal end; tubes nearly 1 mm. long; pores large, 
suborbicular; style scarcely longer than the petals, thickened upwards; stigma shorter than 
the thickness of the style. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY: West coast of North America. 
DisTRIBUTION: Woods, from New Mexico and Colorado to California and British Columbia. 
ILLustRation: M. E. Parsons, Wild Fl. Calif. 101. 
16. Pyrola dentata Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 29: Pyrola no. 6. 1814. 
Thelaia spathulata Alef. Linnaea 28: 45, in part. 1856. 
Pyrola deniata integra A. Gray; Cooper, Pacif. R. R. Rep. 12?: 54. 1860. 
Pyrola pallida Greene, Pittonia 4: 39. 1899. 
Pyrola picta dentate Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 434. 1906. 
Pyrola picta integra Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 434. 1906. 
Perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stem above ground very short; petioles 1-3 cm. 
long; leaf-blades oblanceolate, obovate, or spatulate, dentate or entire, acute or the earlier 
obtuse at the apex, tapering at the base, 1.5-6 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, green on both sides, not 
mottled, sometimes rather pale and glaucous (P. pallida Greene); scape with 1-3 small scales, 
including the inflorescence 1-2 dm. high, sometimes tinged with purple; raceme 5—15-flowered; 
bracts lanceolate, scarcely half as long as the pedicels; pedicels 4-5 mm. long; sepals 
deltoid, 1.5 mm. long; petals obovate, about 5 mm. long, greenish-white or brownish without 
except the margin; filaments dilated below; anthers oblong, 3 mm. long, mucronate at the 
distal end; tubes 0.5 mm. long, curved; fruit about 6 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: West coast of North America, 
DistRIBUTION: Montana and British Columbia to central California and Nevada. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. pl. 136. 
17. Pyrola aphylla Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 29: Pyrolano. 7. 1814. 
Pyrola aphylla leptosepala Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 271. 1843. 
Thelaia ephylia Alef. Linnaea 28: 39. 1856. 
Perennial, usually leafless, with a branched creeping scaly rootstock; stem above ground 
usually none; scape 1-3 dm. high, often tinged with red, usually more scaly than in the other 
species, rarely with a few small leaves at the base, these obovate or oblanceolate, acute, 1-2 
cm. long, sessile or tapering into a short and broad petiole; racemes 8-25-flowered; bracts 3-5 
mm. long, lanceolate; pedicels about 5 mm. long, recurved; sepals ovate-triangular, 
acute, as long as broad or slightly longer, about 1.5 mm. in length; petals obovate, 6-8 mm. 
long, whitish, or tinged with brown or green on the outside; filaments dilated below; anthers 
3 mm. long, apiculate at the distal end; tubes nearly 1 mm. long, curved; pores small, oblique; 
style 6-8 mm. long, thickened upwards. 
TypPH# LocaLity: West coast of North America. 
DISTRIBUTION: Pine woods, from British Columbia to Montana, Idaho, and southern California. 
In.usrrations: Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. gl. 137; Bot. Gaz. 25: pl. 16. 
18. Pyrola sparsifolia Suksd. Allg. Bot. Zeits. 12:26. 1906. 
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Perennial, with a slender rootstock; stem above ground very short; scape slender, 1-2 
dm. high, with several scales and often with 1-3 leaves at the base, and one or two scales above; 
leaves if present short-petioled; blades orbicular or oval, often apiculate, and sometimes 
dentate above, 1-2 cm. long; racemes 4-10-flowered; bracts 2-3 mm. long, much shorter 
than the pedicels; sepals triangular, acute, as broad as long; petals greenish-white, ellip- 
tic, 7-8 mm. long; filaments dilated below; anthers 3 mm. long, mucronate at the distal end; 
tubes short, curved; style about 5 mm. long, slightly thickened upwards. 
Typx Locality: Thick woods at ‘“‘ Moosbach” [Moss Creek], Skamania County, Washington. 
DIstRIBUTION: Pine woods, Olympic and Cascade mountains, Washington, _ 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brand. 54: 221. f. II, 2; Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 63: 74. f. 14. 
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