256 DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Pyrola. 



Jlowers, 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 

 crowded together. Anth. oblong, yellow ; the pores somewhat 

 tubular, but not much elongated. Germ en deeply 5-lobed. Shjle 

 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 i\\Qjiov:ers otherwise than snow-white, without 

 any yellowish tinge, the latter belonging rather to P/ mediae 

 often mistaken for rotnmUfolla. 



2. P. media. Intermediate Winter-green. 



Stamens regularly inflexed. Style twice as long, deflexed. 

 Cluster of many pendulous flow^ers. Calyx shorter than 

 the stamens. 



P. media. Swartz in Stockh. Trans, for 1804. 257. t. 7.f. 1. IVinch 

 Guide V. 2. 19. Ejigi. Bot. v. 28. t. 1945. Camp. 65. Hook. Lond. 

 t.SO. Scot. 127. 



P. rotundlfolia. Fl. Dan. t.WQ. 



Pyrola. Best. Hort. Eijst. cestiv. ord. 5. f. 11./. 1 . 



In woods in the North, rare. 



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

 common wood, near Hexham ; Northumberland ; and some 

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

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

 woods belonging to the Earl of Moray. Hooker. I suspect also 

 that this may be the Pyrola of Stolen -church woods, and other 

 part^ of Oxfordshire, generally taken for the minor, and planted 

 by Mr. Lightfoot in the wood at Bulstrode. 



Perennial. July, August. 



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

 orbicular, but rather more disposed to be serrated. Flowerstalk 

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

 and smaller j^ozt'cr^, 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. Stijle club-shaped, declining, but not recurved. Stigma 

 large, annular j 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, 



