274 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



many-flowered; calix (appressed) shorter than the stami- 

 na. (Leaves opaque, roundish, lamina shorter that the 

 petiole.)— Swartz, in Stockholm Trans. 1810. p. 190. t. 

 5. A very correct figure. P. asarifolia. Michaux, Flor. 

 Am. 1. p. 251. P. co7ivoluta. W. Barton, Prodr. Flor. 

 Philad. p. 50. Hab. Recently discovered in Sweden by 

 Swartz. Abundant in the sandy pine forests of New Jer- 

 sey, near Philadelphia, &.c. Obs. Leaves smaller than in 

 J*, rotundifolia, dark-green and not lucid, roundish-oval 

 or more dilated and emarginate, margin obsoletely and 

 repandly crenulate, lamina mostly longer than the petiole 

 which is nearly deslitule of a margin; scape naked, or 

 with a single scale, acutely triquetrous, often remarkably 

 convolute; bractes linear-lanceolate, shorter than the pe- 

 duncles; calix 5-toothed, segments subsemi-ovate, dilated, 

 subacute, appressed to the corolla; flowers greenish, and 

 almost destitute of odor; petals nearly equal with the sta- 

 mina; stigma annulate, 5-lobed, viscid; capsule roundish, 

 umbilicately depressed, margms of the valves connected 

 by an intricate tomentum, free at the base. 



7. dentata. Rees Encycl. under iP?/roZa, with the 2 fol- 

 lowing. 8. aphylla. A species said to be destitute of 

 leaves. 9. picta. Leaves ovate, subserrate, discoloured, 

 flowers secund, pores of the anthers tubular. — Collected 

 by A. Menzies, Esq. on the North West coast of Ameri- 

 ca, with the 2 preceding. 



A genus almost equally indigenous to Northern Eu- 

 rope, Asia, and North America. 



390. CHIMAPHILA. Fiirsh. (Umbellate Win- 

 ter-green.) 



Calix 5-toothe(]. Petals 5. Stijle very short, 

 immersed in the germ; *S^^i_^77ia annulate, orbicu- 

 lar, with a 5-lobed disk. Filaments stipitate; 

 stipe discoid, ciliate. Capsule 5celled, opening 

 from the summit, margins unconnected. 



Low sufFruticose plants with evergreen serrated leaves, 

 almost verticillately aggregated; scapes naked, umbellate. 

 Anthers biporose at the base, becoming inverted in inflo- 

 rescence. 



Species. 1. C umbellata. Obs. Stem proliferous; sta- 

 mina sometimes 12 with 6 petals, &.c. proper filaments ari- 

 sing from so many pedicells about the same length, which 

 are thick, angular, and acutely terminated below, discoid 

 above, with a ciliate or pubescent margin, disk violace- 



