432 DECANDRIA. BIONOGYNIA. monotropa 



5-valved ; valves coalescing vihh the axis at the base. Seeds 

 very uumerous and minute. 

 Hab. In shady v^oods. June. 



The M. Morisoniana of Mi chaux^ is scarcely a distinct 

 species from the present, unless there be some important cha- 

 racter omitted in the description; for the flowers are very 

 frequently erect, the scape eiongated, and the scale distinct- 

 Tl«f figure of Moris on, to which Pursh refers, is very- 

 rude, and of liitle use in determining the question; yet, the 

 latter Botanist, who saw the orignial specimens from which 

 the figure was drawn, describes the M. Morisoniana as dis- 

 tinct. 



28". PYROLA. L. 



Calyx small, 5-cleft. Petals 5, slightly united at 

 the base, deciduous. Stamens opening with 2 pores. 

 Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved. Seeds invested with a long 

 arillus. Gen. pi 752. Juss. p. 161. Lam. Ill, 

 t. 367. Pyrola et Chimaphila Pursh, Nut- 

 tall, Sec. Nat. Ord. MoNOTROPEiE JVutt, 

 (Hook.) Erice^ Juss. Winter-green, 



* Floivers racemed,jiointing in various directions. 



1. P. roiundifolia L.: leaves rounded or dilated-oval, 

 obsoleteiy serrulate, subcoriaceous and shining; petiole about, 

 as long as the lamina; scape many-flowered ; bracts o\ate, 

 acute ; calyx 5-parted ; segments oblong-ovate ; style de- 

 clinate. Will d. Spec. W. ^.Q'il. J^ u 1 1. Ge7u ]. p.273. 

 Smith FL Brit. II. p. 444. Eiig. Bol. t. 213. M ich, 

 F?. I. p. 251. Pwrs/i F/. I. p. 299. £ ig. J5os<. p. 105. 

 Elliott Sk. I. p. 504. P. uoveboracensis. Cold. No- 

 veb. 99. 



Roof perennial, creeping. Leaves all radical, sempervirent, 

 about an inch and a lialf in diameter, smooth and shining, 

 ■with conspicuous nerves ; margin with appressed obsolete ser- 

 ratures ; petiole margined. 5ta/2<? a foot or more high, acutely 

 3 — 5-angled, with 2 or 3 remote lanceolate bracts. Flowers 

 large, in a long terminal raceme, sweet scented ; pedicels one- 

 third of an inch long, nodding, subtended by lanceolate acute 

 bracts. Calyx nearly one third as long as the corolla; seg- 

 ments acute, a little reflexed at the tip. Corolla white, with 

 a rosaceous tinge ; fietals ovate-oblong, rather obtuse. S?c- 

 we72S shorter than the corolla, ascending ; y?/omewrs smooth, 

 flauened; anthers oblong, with 2 pores at tUe base, ai first 

 erect, but becoming inverted after the flower expands, as in 



