232 DICOTYLEDONS.- — CAMPANULACE.i:. 



Ivpetalous. Stamens double the number of the segmentis of 

 the cor., hvpogytious. Ovary 4 — 5-relIed, many-seeded. 

 Style one. Siigma obscurely 4 — 5-lobed. Capsule 4 — 5- 

 celled, 4 — "^-valved; valves bearing the dissepiuieuts in the 

 middle. Seeds very numerous and minute, winged. Embryo 

 very minute at one end of a fleshy alburne?!. 



Herbs often destitute of verdure. Flowers in racemes, nodding. 



1. PYROLA. 



Cat. minute, 5-cleft. Cor. deeply 5-partite, almost of 5 petals. 

 Stam. 10. Anthers opening with 2 pores. Caps. 5-celled. 

 Seeds numerous, invested with a long arillus. 



* Stalk lolth a single Jlower. 



1. P. uniflora, stalks bearing a solitary flower, leaves suborbicular. 

 p. 127. — Fir ivoods, rare. 



** Flowers rncemed, sccund. 



2. P. secnnda, flowers all leaning one way, leaves ovate serrated. 

 p. 127 '—Shady woods. 



*** Flowers raccmed, pointing in various directions. 



3. P. rotiindjfolia, leaves obovato-rotundate slightly crenate, style 

 bent down much longer than the ascending stam. p. 127. — 

 Dry ivoods. 



4. P. Tnerfw, leaves ovato-rotund crenate, stam. erect much shorter 

 than the straight or slightly decurved style, stigma with 5 erect 

 points, p. 127. — IVoods. 



5. P. minor, leaves ovato-rotundate crenate, stam. erect as long 

 as the very short straight style, stigma large with five divergent 

 rays. p. 128. — IVoods. 



2. MONOTROPA. 

 Perianth single, of 4 — 5 leaves, cucullate at the base. Stam. 

 8—10. Anth. 1-celled, bilabiate. Caps. 4— 5-celIed, 4—5- 

 valved Seeds numerous, invested with a long arillus. 



1 . M. Hypopitys, lateral flowers with eight, terminal one with 10, 

 stamens, p. 12."). — Beeck and Jir ivoods. 



Sect. II Corolla monopetalous or polypetalous, perigynous 

 {inserted into the calyx). 



Order XXXI. CAMPANULACE,^. Jiiss. 



Calyx superior, 5-c'eft. Corolla regular or irregular, 5-cleft. 



Stamens 5, distinct or syngenesious. Style simple. Stigma 



1 — 2 — 3-cleft, naked, or surrounded by a ring of hairs. Disk 



epigynous. Capsule 2 — 3— 5-celled/bursting either at the 



