956 DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Pyrola. 



crowded together. ^niA. oblong, yellow j the pores somewhat 

 tubular, but not much elongated. Ger??jen deeply 5 -lobed. Style 

 club-shaped, twice the length of the stamens, and bent down- 

 ward, in a contrary direction to them, though recurved at the 

 extremity. Stigma large, annular, with a central protuberance, 

 having 5 notches. Caps, orbicular, 5-lobed, umbilicated and 

 depressed, of the diameter of a large pea. 

 I have never seen the Jlowers otherwise than snow-white, without 

 any yellowish tinge, the latter belonging rather to P. viedia, 

 often mistaken for rotundifolia. 



2. P. media. Intermediate Winter-green. 



Stamens regularly inflexed. Style twice as long, deflexed. 

 Cluster of many pendulous flowers. Calyx shorter than 

 the stamens. 



P, media. Swartz in Stockh. Trans.for\SOA. 257. t. l.f.\. Winch 

 Guide V. 2. 19. Engl. Bot.v. 28. 1. 1945. Comp. 65. Hook. Lond. 

 t.30. Scot. 127. 



P. rotundifolia. Fl. Dan. t.WO. 



Pyrola. Rail Sijn. 363. Besl. Horl. Eijst. cestiv. ord. 5. t.W.f.l. 



In woods in the North, rare. 



In Scot's wood Dean, 3 miles west of Newcastle ; also in East- 

 common wood, near Hexham ; Northumberland ; and some 

 woods 4 miles north of Wolsingham, Durham. Mr. Winch. In 

 Wyre forest, near Bewdley. Dr. Pratingion. Near Forres, in 

 woods belonging to the Earl of Moray. Hooker. Mr. Roberts 

 Leyland has ascertained this to be the plant which Ray found 

 in several places about Halifax, and I suspect that it may be 

 the Pyrola of Stoken-church woods, and other parts of Oxford- 

 shire, generally taken for the minor, and planted by Mr. Light- 

 foot in the wood at Bulstrode. Probably, also, Mr. Lightfoot's 

 Highland P. rotundifolia may, in some instances, have been the 

 viedia, which was not distinguished in his time. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Nearly as large as the preceding, and the leaves are as commonly 

 orbicular, but rather more disposed to be serrated. Flower-stalk 

 triangular, more spirally twisted, with pendulous, less expanded, 

 and smaller^oifcrs, whose corolla is milk-white, with a delicate 

 pink tint at the margin. The calyx is shorter. Stam. all regu- 

 larly incurved round the germen, not directed to the upper side 

 of the flower. Anth. greenish ; broad and tawny about their 

 pores. Style club-shaped, declining, but not recurved. Stigma 

 large, annular ; convex and notched in the centre, projecting a 

 little beyond the corolla, and, when accompanying the ripe cap- 

 sule, almost straight, though still deflexed. 



There can be no doubt that this species has formerly been mistaken 

 in Britain, sometimes for the foregoing, sometimes for the fol- 

 lowing, nor are characters wanting to excuse such errors. 



