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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. IVilld. v. 2. G2i. Fl. Br. 444. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 3. t. 158, bud. Hook. Scot. 128. Fl. Dan. t. 55. Riv. 

 Pentap. In: t. \3G.f. 1. Dill, in Raii %/?. 303. 



P. rosea. Engl. Bot. v. 30*. t. 2543. 



P. n. 1009. Hall. Hist. V. 1.431. 



P, VLilgatior, the fruit only. Moris, sect. 12. t. 10./. 1 . 



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 other 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, furnislied with a few scaly 

 bracleas, cliiefly at the lower part. Cluster long and slender, 

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

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

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

 ^nth. nearly terminal, dilated and- yellowish upward, with 2 

 large pores. Sfi/le 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 tlie two last. The valves of the capsule are connected by 

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

 wliich /. 15S 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, 1 iiave, S years since, 

 corrected in Hees's Cyclopccdia ; 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. i. 1945, are sufficient to prevent any future mis- 

 understanding of that species, whose annular stigma accords 

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

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

 in Ric. 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 t!ie cali/r, and colour of ihcjiower. 



4. P. sccmtda. Serrated Winter-green. 



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

 Pores of the anthers dilated. Style straight. Stigma fi\e- 

 lohed. 



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