N. ORD.-ERICACEA. 104 
S. ORD.—PYROLEL. 
GENUS.—CHIMAPHILA,* PURSH. 
SEX, SYST.-DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
CHIMAPHILA. 
PIPSISSE WA. 
SYN.—CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA, NUTT., CHIMAPHILA CORYMBOSA, 
PURSH., PYROLA UMBELLATA, LINN., PYROLA FRUCTICANS, 
PARKINSON. . 
COM. NAMES.—PIPSISSEWA, WINTERGREEN, PRINCE’S PINE, BITTER 
WINTERGREEN, GROUND HOLLY; (FR.) PYROLE OMBELLEBE; 
(GER.) DOLDENBLUTHIGES HARNKRAUT, ODER WINTERGRUN. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH PLANT CH/MAPHILA, EITHER UMBELLATA OR 
MACULATA, OR BOTH, AS THE PROVINGS HAVE BEEN MADE 
WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION. 
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Description.—This small, slightly woody, nearly herbaceous evergreen pe- 
rennial, springs from a long, cylindrical, creeping, yellowish voo/, about one- 
eighth to one-quarter of an inch in diameter, giving off numerous fine rootlets, 
and sending up many branches, which terminate in leafy and flowering stems 
alternately. Stem simple, or sometimes branched at the base, 3 to 6 inches high 
before the flowering season. Leaves mostly in several imperfect whorls, or 
sometimes scattered about the upper portion of the stem; they are dark green 
above, paler below, thick, shining, wedge-lanceolate, acute at the base, sharply 
saw-toothed, amaculate, short-petioled, and from one and a half to two inches 
long, by one-quarter to one-half an inch broad. Feduncle from 3 to 6 inches 
long, erect, smooth, terminating in from 4 to 7 pedicels covered with a very 
fine down, nodding in flower, erect in fruit, and forming a loose umbel or corymb. 
Calyx much smaller than the corolla ; sepals five, blunt, persistent, slightly hairy. 
Corolla of five petals rounded, concave and spreading. Stamens ten, free, inserted 
under the pistil; //amzents at first convex, obovate, fleshy, then concave, filiform 
and hairy; azthers large, extrorse in the bud but becoming inverted in flower, more 
or less conspicuously 2-horned, 4- -celled, and opening by two pores; foéllen grains 
white, compounded of four more or less globose granules. Ovaries 5, connected 
about a fleshy receptacle in such a manner as to form a depressed globose mass, 
surrounded at its base by a glandular zone; ovuz/es many, small, anatropous; style 
very short, rounded and wedge-shaped, the apex entering into the summit of the 
substance between the ovaries ; stigmt broad, convex, discoid, —* marked ny 
* xeipa, winter, gidéw, to love, 
