Part 1, 1914] PYROLACEAE 29 
1. Ramischia secunda (L.) Garcke, Fl. Deuts. ed. 4.222. 1858. 
Pyrola secunda L. Sp. Pl. 396. 1753. 
Ramischia secundiflora Opiz, Seznam 82. 1852. 
Actinocyclus secundus Klotzsch, Monats. Akad. Berlin 1857: 14. 1857. 
Pyrola secunda pumila Paine, Cat. Pl. Oneida Co. 135. 1865. 
Perennial, with a long creeping rootstock; stems above ground more or less subligneous, 
1-10 cm. high, bearing 1-4 leaves; petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades evergreen, but rather 
thin, shining, bright-green, finely serrulate, ovate or rarely oval, acute or rarely rounded at 
the apex, 1-5 cm. long; scape 1-2 dm. high, with 1-4 scales; raceme short, nodding, 6—17- 
flowered; bracts subulate-ovate, slightly shorter than the pedicels; sepals oval or elliptic, 
1 mm. long, rounded at the apex; petals oblong or elliptic, 4-5 mm. long, erect, greenish-white; 
anthers 1-1.5 mm. long; style about 4 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Woods of northern Europe. 
DistRIBUTION: Woods, from Labrador and Newfoundland to New Jersey, South Dakota, New 
Mexico, California, and Alaska; also in Europe and northern Asia. 
In,usrrations: Fl. Dan. pl. 402; Engl. Bot. pl. 517; Sv. Bot. pl. 566; Reichenb. Fl. Germ. 17: 
pl. 1155, f. I, 11, 1-5; Fi. Deuts. ed. 5. pl. 2043; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2733; ed. 2. f. 3104; 
Henshaw, Mountain Fl. Am. pl. 28. F 
2. Ramischia elatior (Lange) Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Actinocyclus secundus elatioy Lange, Vidensk. Meddel. 1867: 115. 1868. 
Perennial, with a creeping rootstock; stems above ground 3-10 cm. high, suffrutescent, 
bearing 3-6 leaves; petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades lanceolate or lance-elliptic, 1-5 cm. long, 
very acute, sharply serrate, firmer than in the preceding species; scape 1.5-3 dm. high, with 
2-4 scales; raceme 10—18-flowered, sectind; bracts linear, fully as long as the refiexed pedicels; 
sepals triangular, obtuse, as broad as long; petals elliptic, 5 mm. long, whitish; anthers fully 
1.5 mm. long; style 3-4 mm. long. 
TYPE Locality: La Hoya, Vera Cruz. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mount Orizaba and vicinity. 
4. MONESES Salisb.; S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 403. 1821. 
Bryophthalmus E. Meyer, Preuss. Pflanzeng. 101. 1839. 
Glabrous perennial herbs, with slender rootstocks. Leaves thin, petioled, subverticillate, 
mostly in 3’s, persistent. Scape 1-flowered, occasionally with a single scale on the lower part 
and a similar bract above. Sepals 5, inserted on a callous base. Petals 5, ovate, nearly plane, 
spreading. Stamens 10; filaments dilated at the base; anthers oblong, large, strongly sulcate, 
produced into two distinct curved tubes at the apex. Gynoecium of 5 united carpels; disk 
none; style straight, longer than the ovary; stigma broader than the style, peltate, with 5 
marginal erect papillae. Capsule subglobose, obtusely 5-angled, umbilicate, dehiscent from 
the apex downward, the sutures without filaments. 
Leaf-blades suborbicular, mostly rounded at the apex, crenate, not strongly 
veined. . 1. M. uniflora. 
Leaf-blades more or less ovate, acutish, rather coarsely dentate, strongly reticulate- 
veiny. 2. M. reticulata. 
1. Moneses uniflora (L.) A. Gray, Man. 273. 1848. 
Pyrola uniflora L. Sp. Pl. 397. 1753. 
Moneses grandiflora S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 403. 1821. 
Perennial, with a filiform rootstock; stem above ground 1-3 cm. long, bearing 1-4 pseudo- 
verticils of 2-4, usually 3, leaves each; petioles 0.5—-3 cm. long; leaf-blades orbicular or rounded- 
oval, usually rounded at the apex, acute at the base, 1-2 cm. long, crenate, not strongly veined; 
scape 5-12 cm. high; bract elliptic; sepals ovate, obtuse, ciliolate on the margins, 3 mm. long; 
petals white, ovate, obtuse, about 1 cm. long; anthers 2-2.5 mm. long, about half as long as 
the filaments; tubes about 0.5 mm. long, strongly curved; capsule 7-8 mm. in diameter. 
Tyre LOCALITY: Woods of northern Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION: Woods, among moss or fallen leaves, from Labrador and Newfoundland to 
Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Alaska; also in Europe. 
IuLustRations: Fl. Dan. pl. 8; Sv. Bot. pl. 176; Engl. Bot. pl. 146; Schrank, Fl. Monac. 3: 
pl. 272; Reichenb. Fl. Germ. 17: pl. 1156, f. I-III; Fl. Deuts. ed. 5. pl. 2049; Britt. & Brown, Ill. 
Fi. f. 2734; ed. 2. f. 3205; Henshaw, Mountain Fl. Am. pi. 29; E. & P. Nat. Pal. 4!: f. 5, L, M; 
Brown & Schaffer, Alp. Fl. Can. 91. 56, f. c; Mathews, Field Book 323. 
