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partitions. Seeds very numerous, covering the receptacles, 

 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 llees's Cyclop, v. 29. The 

 whole genus is astringent and tonic. 



1. P. rottindifoUa. Hound-leaved Winter-green. 



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

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

 stamens. 



P. rotundifolia. Linn. Sp. PL b67. TViUd. v.2. 62\. FL Br. 444. 

 EngL But. V. 3. t. 213. Hook. Lond. L 2G. Scot. 127. Lam.f. 1 . 



P. rotundifolia major. Bauh. Pin. 191. Moris, r. 3. 504. sect. 12. 

 t. 10./. 1. 



P. n. 1010. HalLUist.v. 1.431. 



Pvrola. Rail Sijn. 2G3. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 136./. 2. Ger. Em. 

 '408./ Matth. falgr. v. 2. 331 . f. Camer. Epit. 723./ Bauh. 

 Hist. V. 3. p. 2. 535./ Dalech. Hist. 841./ 2. 



P. vulgatior. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 1 IG./ 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. 



About Halifax, Yorkshire, in several places. Roy. On a common 

 at Bradvvell, near Gorlestone, Suffolk. Mr. Lily ll'igg. In a 

 wood atMiddleton, 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 

 Bradvvell, but wiiere it is no longer to be seen. 



Perennial. July, August. 



The largest of its genus, tliough variable in size. Leaves 4 or 5, 

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

 obscurely, as well as l)luntly, notched, a little decurrent into the 

 long, slightly horiWrvd footstalks ; the upper surface especially 

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

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

 scattered scaly Lractcas, and terminating in an {)l)long, erect, 

 simple c/«a/<';-, of numerous, rather dro(»})ing. pure white, fragrant 



