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3. P. minor. Lesser Winter-green. 



Stamens regularly inflexed. Style the same length, straight. 

 Stigma five-lobed, pointless, without a ring. Cluster of 

 many drooping flowers. 



P. minor. Linn, Sp. PL 567. mild. v. 2. 621 . Ft. Br. 444. Engl. 

 Bot. f.3. t. 158, bad. Hook. Scot. 128. Fl. Dan. t. 55. Riv. 

 Pentajj. Irr. t. 136./. 1 . Dill, in Rail Syn. 363. 



P. rosea. Engl. Bot. v. 36. t. 2543. 



P. n. lOOi). Hall. Hist. v.\. 431. 



P. vulgatior, the fruit only. Moris, sect. 12. t. 10./. I. 



In mossy woods and thickets, in mountainous situations. 



At Studley, Yorkshire, and Corra Linn. Mr. Winch. Common in 

 many parts of Durham. Mr. J. Backhouse. Woods near Brodie- 

 house. Mr. Brodie. At the falls of Clyde, and many otlier places 

 in Scotland. Professor Hooker. 



Perennial. July. 



Smaller than either of the foregoing, with more elliptical, crenate 

 leaves. Stalk with 4 angles, one of which is smaller than the 

 rest, seldom spiral, or but slightly so, furnished vvith a few scaly 

 hracteas, chiefly at the lower part. Cluster long and slender, 

 sometimes lax, or interrupted. Flowers drooping in every di- 

 rection. Segments of the calyx short, broad, and acute. Petals 

 pale pink, orbicular, converging. Stam. all equally inflexed. 

 Anth. nearly terminal, dilated and yellowish upward, with 2 

 large pores. Style cylindrical, short, straight. Stigma large, 

 with 5 radiating lobes, but no central points, nor any annular 

 projection underneath them, by which this is clearly distinguished 

 from the two last. The valves of the capsule are connected by 

 a web in all the three species. The errors and uncertainties to 

 which t. 158 of Engl. Bot. gave rise (see t. 2543 of the same 

 work), and which were augmented by a specimen of P. minor 

 having been sent from Sweden for media, I have, 8 years since, 

 corrected in Rees's Cyclopcedia ; and the remarks of my worthy 

 friend Professor Hooker, in Fl. Scot., leave no doubt remaining. 

 His excellent figure of P. media in Fl. Lond. and Mr. Sowerby's 

 in Engl. Bot. t. 1945, are sufficient to prevent any future mis- 

 understanding of that species, whose annular stigma accords 

 with P. rotundifolia, and not at all with minor. Dr. Swartz's 

 P. chlorantha, figured in the Stockh. Trans, for 1810. t.5, and 

 in Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 138./. 1, may possibly be detected here- 

 after in Britain. Dr. Hooker's plate of P. rotundifolia answers 

 to it in the shortness of the calyx, and colour of the flower. 



4. P. secunda. Serrated Winter-green. 



Leaves ovate, acute, serrated. Flowers drooping, unilateral. 

 Pores ofthe anthers dilated. Style straight. Stigma five- 

 lobed. 



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