Pyrola.] PYROLACE/E. ! 83 



fleshy. Embryo at one extremity of the albumen. — Herbaceous, 

 rarely frutescent plants. Leaves simple, often wanting. 



1. Pyrola. Linn. Winter-green. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, often connected at the base. Anthers 

 opening with two pores. Capsules superior, 5-celled, dehis- 

 cing at the angles of the base. Seeds numerous, invested 

 with a long arillus. — Name from Pyrus, a pear, from a fan- 

 cied resemblance in its leaves to those of a Pear-tree. 



Decandria. Monogynia. 



1. P. rotundifolia, Linn. Round-leaved Winter-green. Flowers 

 drooping, racemed ; leaves obovate-orbicular, slightly crenate ; 

 style bent down, curved upwards at the extremity, much longer 

 than the ascending stamens. Br. PI. 1. p. 187. E. PL v. u. 

 p. 255. E. Bot. *. 213. 



Moist woods and bushy places in the northern counties. On a steep 

 bank by the side of a mountain river near Garvagh, County of Derry 

 in July, 1835, growing along with P. minor and P. secunda ; Mr. D. 

 Moore, who sent me fine specimens of all the three. FL July — Sept. 

 % . " The largest of the Pyrolce with white spreadmgflowers, well dis- 

 tinguished by the direction and relative length of its stamens and 

 style. The latter is more than twice as long as the fully formed cap- 

 sule, and it is singularly curved. Stigma with five erect points." 

 Hooker. 



2. P. media, Swartz. Intermediate Winter-green. Leaves 

 nearly orbicular; stamens erect, much shorter than the straight 

 and slightly decurved style; stigma with five erect points. 

 Br. PI.], p. 187. E. PL v. ii. p. 256. E. Bot. t. 1945. 

 Hook. Lond. t. 30. 



In Newtownards Park, and several places in the County of Antrim ; 

 Mr. Templeton. FL July, Aug. II.— "Peduncle spirally twisted. 

 Flowers pendulous, globose, white, with a pink tinge." (Smith.) — I 

 insert this species on the authority of the late Mr. Templeton not hav- 

 ing yet seen Irish specimens of it. 



3. P. minor, Linn. Lesser Winter-green. Leaves ovato- 

 rotundate, crenate, stamens erect as long as the very short style 

 which is included within the flower ; stigma large, with five 

 divergent rays. Br. FL 1. p. 187. E. FL v. ii. p. 2bl. E. 

 Bot. t. 158. (not good). Hook, in FL Lond. t. 154.— P. 

 rosea, E. Bot. t. 2543. 



On the northern side of Slemish mountain, and at Glenarm among 

 heath ; Mr. Templeton. Mountain Glen near Garvagh and other 

 places in the County of Derry ; Mr D. Moore. In woods at Ards- 

 house near DunfanaVhy, also at Banagher, on the Ovvenbeg river, County 

 of Derry, near the fall called Linapaste ; Mr. E. Murphy. The most 

 common species in Ireland. FL July. %.— Well characterized by the 

 shortness of its style, and large radiated stigma, quite included within 

 the concave corolla. The figure given as P. rosea in E. Bot. is a 

 good representation of this species. 



