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the filaments dilated below; style slender, declined, curved, about 8 

 mm. long, the apical collar narrower than the length of the stigma. 



Growing in sphagnum moss in a bog near the Indian Mission, south 

 of Fort William, Ontario, O. E. & Grace K. Jennings, No. 1493, July 

 30, 1912; type consisting of four specimens on one sheet in the Car- 

 negie Museum Herbarium. 



Pyrola compacta Jennings, sp. nov. 



Perennial with a stiff woody rootstock about 1.5 mm. in diameter, 

 often forking at the apex; leaves forming a rather dense rosette, 5-12 

 mm. long, leaf -blades broadly oval-elliptic or obovate, abruptly rounded 

 at the base into and acutely tapering into the margined petiole, blades 

 up to 4 mm. long by 3.2 mm. wide, rounded and often apiculate at apex, 

 thin but stiff and sub-lustrous above, the marginal veinlets ending in 

 very fine crenulate teeth; veins fairly prominent, often light colored 

 above and purplish beneath; scape with inflorescence 6-11 cm. high, 

 with usually one bract, stiff, strongly angled; flowers usually six to 

 eight, drooping, borne on pedicels about 2.5-3 mm. long, shorter than 

 the subtending bracts; flowers 12-15 mm. wide; calyx-lobes about 2 

 mm. long, triangular-ovate, acuminate or acute, a little narrower than 

 long, widest just above the base; petals thick, somewhat concave but 

 widely spreading, veiny, often apiculate, about 7-9 mm. long; filaments 

 dilated below, the anthers usually erect or almost so, with a short curved 

 tube at the proximal end and a slender purplish mucro at the distal 

 end, 6-8 mm. long, often forked; style stiff, declined and curved, the 

 expanded collar usually wider than the length of the stigma; fruit not 

 seen. 



A compact rosette plant in a low boggy pasture near Six-mile Lake 

 (Louise Lake), Thunder Cape, northwestern Lake Superior, Ontario, 

 O. E. & Grace K. Jennings, August 20, 191 2. Type specimens in 

 Carnegie Museum Herbarium. 



This species is unique in its compact form, partly apiculate petals, 

 and long mucronate anthers. Its flowers are very fragrant and in 

 their dried condition indicate that they were probably purplish or rose 

 color. The species resembles most closely Pyrola ellipHca Nuttall and 

 P. uliginosa Torrey. 



P3rrola chlorantha var. revoluta Jennings, var. nov. 

 Perennial, with a slender sparsely branching rootstock, the stem above 

 ground short or none, usually caespitose and with rather numerous 

 (5-11) densely clustered leaves; petioles 5-12 mm. long, channeled, 

 leaf-blades rounded-ovate, 1-2.5 cm. long, coriaceous, dull and grayish 

 green above, much paler beneath, glabrous throughout, margins mi- 

 nutely crenulate and closely revolute, veins not prominent, apex obtuse 

 to acute, base rather abruptly narrowed to the petiole; scape with 

 inflorescence 1.2-1.8 dm. high, stiff, usually reddish below, 3-8 flowered, 

 naked or with one bract; pedicels and their bracts about 3-5 mm. long; 

 flowers drooping, about 1.2 cm. wide, light-colored, drying light yellow; 

 calyx 4-5~5-o ^^- wide, the lobes ovate-triangular, rather obtuse 



