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  KEY 
  AND 
  FLORA 
  

  

  without 
  appendages 
  and 
  opening 
  by 
  pores 
  or 
  by 
  a 
  transverse 
  

   slit. 
  Fruit 
  a 
  capsule 
  containing 
  a 
  great 
  number 
  of 
  very 
  small 
  

  

  seeds. 
  

  

  I. 
  CHIMAPHILA 
  Pursh. 
  

  

  Low 
  plants, 
  nearly 
  herbaceous, 
  with 
  reclining 
  stems, 
  from 
  

   long, 
  horizontal, 
  underground 
  shoots. 
  Leaves 
  opposite 
  or 
  

   whorled, 
  leathery, 
  shining, 
  evergreen, 
  on 
  short 
  petioles. 
  

   Flowers 
  fragrant, 
  white 
  or 
  purplish, 
  on 
  a 
  corymb 
  or 
  umbel 
  

   which 
  terminates 
  the 
  stem. 
  Calyx 
  5-cleft 
  or 
  5-parted, 
  per- 
  

   sistent. 
  Petals 
  5, 
  concave, 
  roundish, 
  spreading. 
  Stamens 
  10, 
  

   the 
  filaments 
  enlarged 
  and 
  downy 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  anthers 
  

   somewhat 
  4-celled, 
  opening 
  when 
  mature 
  by 
  pores 
  at 
  the 
  

   outer 
  end. 
  Style 
  top-shaped, 
  nearly 
  buried 
  in 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  

   globular 
  ovary. 
  Capsule 
  erect, 
  5-celled. 
  

  

  1. 
  C. 
  umbellata 
  Nutt. 
  PRINCE'S 
  PINE, 
  PIPSISSEWA. 
  Branches 
  

   leafy, 
  4-12 
  in. 
  high. 
  Leaves 
  spatulate 
  or 
  wedge-oblanceolate, 
  obtuse 
  

   or 
  nearly 
  so, 
  sharply 
  serrate, 
  very 
  green 
  and 
  glossy. 
  Flowers 
  sev- 
  

   eral, 
  umbeled 
  or 
  somewhat 
  corymbed, 
  white 
  or 
  pinkish, 
  the 
  anthers 
  

   violet. 
  Dry 
  woods, 
  especially 
  under 
  pine 
  trees. 
  

  

  2. 
  C. 
  maculata 
  Pursh. 
  SPOTTED 
  WINTERGREEN. 
  Much 
  resem- 
  

   bles 
  No. 
  1, 
  but 
  has 
  only 
  scattered 
  teeth 
  on 
  the 
  leaves, 
  which 
  are 
  

   mottled 
  with 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  surface 
  and 
  are 
  often 
  broad 
  or 
  

   rounded 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  Dry 
  woods. 
  

  

  II. 
  PYROLA 
  L. 
  

  

  Biennial 
  or 
  perennial, 
  almost 
  woody 
  herbs 
  ; 
  rootstocks 
  slen- 
  

   der 
  and 
  creeping. 
  Leaves 
  mostly 
  basal, 
  with 
  broad 
  petioles, 
  

   evergreen. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  racemes, 
  nodding, 
  on 
  a 
  bracted 
  scape. 
  

   Sepals 
  5. 
  Corolla 
  usually 
  globose, 
  of 
  5 
  free 
  or 
  nearly 
  free, 
  

   roundish 
  petals. 
  Stamens 
  10, 
  in 
  pairs 
  opposite 
  the 
  petals, 
  

   hypogynous; 
  anthers 
  as 
  in 
  Chimaph'da. 
  Capsule 
  globose, 
  

   5-celled, 
  splitting 
  into 
  5 
  valves, 
  the 
  latter 
  usually 
  with 
  downy 
  

   edges. 
  

  

  1. 
  P. 
  elliptica 
  Nutt. 
  SHIN 
  LEAF. 
  Scape 
  5-10 
  in. 
  high. 
  Leaf 
  blades 
  

   obovate-oval 
  or 
  elliptical, 
  rather 
  thin, 
  dark 
  green, 
  faintly 
  scalloped, 
  

   almost 
  always 
  longer 
  than 
  their 
  margined 
  petioles. 
  Flowers 
  greenish- 
  

   wliitc, 
  very 
  fragrant. 
  Rich, 
  usually 
  dry, 
  woods, 
  especially 
  N. 
  

  

  2. 
  P. 
  americana 
  Sweet. 
  ROUND-LEAVED 
  WINTERGREEN. 
  Scape 
  

   6-20 
  in. 
  high. 
  Leaf 
  blades 
  roundish 
  or 
  oval, 
  leathery, 
  shining 
  above, 
  

  

  