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Hab. Abundant on dry, heathy, rocky places in the Highhxnd.^, and 



\A'estern isles. Fl. Klay. fj . 

 Stems very long and trailing : leaves obovate, stiff, rigid, smooth, their 



margins rovolute. Flowers in a small clustered raceme, terminal, 



beautiful rose coloiu-. Berry small, red, austere, mealy, b\it ailbrd- 



ing an excellent food for the moor game. 



5. PYROLA. 



* Stalk u-iih a singU\/Imi-er. 



1. P. wnjlora [dngle-Jhwercd JVinler- green), stalk bearing a 

 solitary flower, leaves suljorbicular. E. B. t. l-K). 



Hab. Fir-wood, near Brodie House, by Forres, Mr. Brod'ie and Mr. 

 Hoi/. Fl. July. 2/ . 



1 had* once tlie pleasure of gathering this truly rare plant in company 

 with its discoverer the Laird of Brodie. In Switzerland it is so 

 abundant as to perfume the vvoods v.ith its delightful smell. The 

 stem is scarcely an inch high, v>ith a few rather smidl and obscurely 

 serrated petiol'ated leaves. Peduncle 2 inches long, with 1 bractea. 

 Flower large, nearly white. Sttjle short, straight. Stigma large, 

 rayed. 



** Flowers racemed, senmd. 



2. P. secunda {serrated IVinter- green), flowers all leaning one 

 way, leaves ovate serrated. Light/, p. 219. E. B. t, 517. 



Hab. Shady birch-woods among moss about Little Loch Broom and 

 Loch Mari, Ross-shire, and in the birch-woods of Trosscraig ; 

 Craig-loisgt and Coille-mlior ; about Loch Rannoch, Perthshire, 

 Ligfitf. Gordon Castle M-oods, Mr. Brown. CuUoden woods, near 

 Inverness, Mr. Murray. Between Ballacheulish and Appin House 

 in Upper Lorn, /:>;•. ?rrtZAtT. F/. July. %. 



Stems rather straggling, branched. Flowerstalks A — .") inches high, 

 with several ov'at scales or bracteas. Flowers white. Slyle long, 

 straight. Stigma large. 



*** Flotsers racemed, pointing in atrious directions. 



3. V.rotundiJoUa {ruimd-leaved fVi/Uer-green) ,]ei\ves obovato- 

 rotundate slightly crenate, style bent down much longer than 

 the ascending stam. Ligh/f. p. 2 1 8. I£. B. t,2\u. 



Hab. Dry woods and sometimes upon heaths, not unfrequent. ^^'oods 

 at Auchindenny and on the banks of tlie Clyde about the Falls ; 

 woods at Blair Athol, and heaths about Dunkeld, Light/. Peebles- 

 shire, Mr. Stewart. Callender, Mr. Arnott. Culloden woods near 

 Inverness, Mr. il/i/JTf/?/. Rare in the Lowlands, D.Don, f 7. July, 

 Sept. 1/. 



The largest of the species, with white spreading flowers, well distin- 

 guished by the direction and relative length of the stam. r.nd style. 

 The latter is more than twice as long as tlie fully formed caps, and 

 singularly curved downward at the base, upwards again towards' the 

 extremity. Stigma with 5 erect points. 



4. P. media {intermediate IFinler-green), leaves ovato-rotund 



