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70 PYROLA. No. 79 



No. 79. PYROLA MACULATA. 



Names. Spotted Pipsiseway. /V. Pjrole blanche- 

 Vulgar. Wintergreen, Whitefeaf, White Pipsiseway. 

 Psiseva, Kingcure, Ground Holly, Rheumatism Weed, 



&c. 



Classif. Natural Order of Bicornes. Decandria 



moaogynia- L. 



Genus PvKOLA. Calyx five cleft. Five petals, slight- 

 ly united at the base. Ten stamina, anthers opening 

 by two pores. One pistil- Stigma capitate. Capsule 

 five celled, five valved. Many arillate seeds. 



Sp, Pyrola maculata* L. Leaves ovate lanceolate 

 acute, base rounded, remotely serrate, variegated with 

 white : flowers two or three, style very short, 



DESCRIPTION. Root perennial, creeping, con- 

 torted, yellow. One to three perennial stems, three to 

 six inches high, simple, erect. Leaves evergreen, but 

 few, subverticillate, on short petioles, the lower sub- 

 ovate, the upper ovate lanceolate, sharply serrate, very 

 acute, variegated above by a broad longitudinal glau- 

 cous stripe, with lateral branches. Flowers white, two 

 or three subumbellate, pedicellated, drooping, at the 

 end of a long terminal naked peduncle. Calyx five 

 toothed. Five ovate concave petals, often red at the 

 base. Ten stamens, wdth villose filaments. Pistil glo- 

 bular, umbjlicated. Style short and thick, almost con- 

 cealed. Stigma large, depressed, urceolate, viscose? 

 green. 



HISTORY. This species belongs to the genus Chi- 

 maphi/a of Pursh, which Bigelow has shown to be based 

 on mistaken characters. The genus, however, must be 

 divided into several subgenera ; such as, 



1. Streptylia. Raf. Calyx five parted, style crooked, 

 declinate, stigma annulate. P , rotimdifoUay P. asarifoli^r 

 P* eMiptica, has calyx five toothed. 



2. Orthylia. Raf. Calyx five parted, style straight, 

 stigma peltate. P. minor. P. sectmda. P. nnijiore. 



3. Psiseva. Raf. 1808. Calvx five leaved, style thick 

 and short, stigma annular. P. umbellata. 



