DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Pyrola. 255 



minute, oval, each in a membranous tunic, elongated at 

 both ends. 

 Roots creeping, perennial. Stems herbaceous, or somewhat 

 woody, short, depressed, angular, leafy; sometimes 

 branched. Leaves simple, undivided, stalked, smooth, 

 veiny, evergreen. Fl. one, or most frequently several, on 

 a solitary, upright, tall, angular stalk, white or reddish, 

 very elegant, and often highly fragrant. One American 

 species has no leaves. See Rees's Cyclop, v. 29. The 

 whole genus is astringent and tonic. 



1 . P. rotundifolta. Round-leaved Winter-green. 



Stamens ascending. Style twice as long, declining and re- 

 curved. Cluster many-flowered. Calyx as long as the 

 stamens. 



P. rotundifolia. Liym. Sp. PL 567 . mUd.v.2.62\. FLBr.444. 

 Engl. Bot.v. 3. t. 213. Hook. Land. t. 26. Scot.\27. Lam./.]. 



P. rotundifolia major. Bauh. Pin. \9l. Moris, v. 3. 504. sect. ]2. 

 MO./. 1. 



P. n. 1010. Hall. Hist. v.\.43\. 



Pyrola. Raii Syn. 363 ? Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 136. /. 2. Ger. 

 Em. 408./. Matih. Valgr. v. 2. 331 ./. Corner. Epit. 723. f. 

 Bauh. Hist. V. 3. p. 2. 535./. Balech. Hist. 841./. 2. 



P. vulgatior. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 116./ Moris, sect. 12. t. 10./. 1, 

 excluding the fruit. 



Limonium. Fuchs. Hist. 467. f. 



L. sylvestre. Trag. Hist. 707.f. 



In bushy places, and in dry heathy woods, but rare. 



On a common at Bradwell, near Gorlestone, Suffolk. Mr. Lilly Wigg. 

 In a wood at Middleton, Suffolk ; Mr. Davy. Hooker. In dry 

 woods and sometimes upon heaths, in the Highlands of Scotland. 

 Light/., though rare in the Lowlands, according to Mr, D. Don. 

 Hook. Scot. This species is found on the opposite coast of Hol- 

 land, in situations exactly similar to that where it once grew at 

 Bradwell, but where it is no longer to be seen. 



Perennial. July, August. 



The largest of its genus, though variable in size. Leaves 4 or i), 

 for the most part nearly orbicular, an inch broad, or more, very 

 obscurely, as well as bluntly, notched, a little decurrent into the 

 long, slightly bordered /ootstalks; the upper surface especially 

 very smooth and shining, finely reticulated with veins. Flower- 

 stalk a span high, triangular, a little twisted, bearing a tew 

 scattered scaly bracteas, and terminating in an oblong, erect, 

 simple cluster, of numerous, rather drooping, pure white, fragrant 

 /lowers, spreading in every direction, each with a lanceolate, 

 concave, membranous, brown bractea, at the base of its partial 

 stalk, and not quite so long. Stam. all turned upwards, and 



