DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Pyrola. 391 



ham, Northumberland. Isle of Mull, next to Y-Columb-Kill, 

 growing plentifully for some miles together. Mr. Llwyd. 

 [Common about Blair, Mr. Watt. — West side of the county 

 of Durham.] S. May, June.* 



PY'ROLA, Calyx with 5 divisions : petals 5 : caps. 



5-celled, opening at the angles: seeds nume- 

 rous, coated. 



P. Stamens ascending : pistils leaning downwards. rotundifolia. 



E. bot. 213-27. dan. UO-Blaclw. 501-/>;<y. pent. 137- 

 Matth. 989.~Fuchs. 467-Trag. 707-J. B. iii. 535-Dod. 

 13S-Ger. em. 408. 1-Ger. 330. 1-Clus. ii. 1 16'. ?-Lob> 

 obs.\57* 2-H.ox. xii. 10. row 2. 1-FarL 50S-LomcA§6. 



Blossoms white. 



Common Wintergrecn. Woods and groves in the North of 

 England : in the South rare. Near Halifax, Yorkshire. [Hock, 

 fall Woods, near Grewelthorpe, Raydale Wood, near Carr-end 

 Wensley Dale, and Tennant's Wood, near Kilnsay, Yorkshire. 

 Curt. Meadows at Gorlestone, Suffolk. Mr. Wigg. Woods 

 of Duplin and Panmure, Angus-shire, and about Loch Ranoch, 

 Perthshire. Mr. Donn. Chartley Moss, Staffordsh. Mr.BAcoT.] 



P. June, July. 



P. Flowers in a bunch, scattered : stamens ascending, pis- mi'nor. 



tils straight. 





E. hot. 158-F/. dan. *>$-Kn\ph. jMi'*/. t**t- 135. 1. 



Much resembles the P. rotundi folia. Stem in both 3-cor- 

 nered. It is very probable that this plant was first produced by 

 the Pollen of the P. secunda, impregnating the germen of the 

 P. rotundifolia. Bloss. reddish white. Linn. Two flowering 

 stems frequently arise from the same root. Whole plant smaller 

 and weaker than the P. rotundifolia. Woodward. Anthers with 



The berries are insipid, pulpy, and mealy. The plant is much 

 used in Sweden to dye an ash-colour, and to tan leather. Haifa dram of 

 the powdered leaves given every, or every other day, has been found 

 useful in calculous cases. It was first used for this purpose at Moatpc- 

 l : er, and afterwards by Dr. de Haen, at Vienna, who relates several ea*es, 

 in which it proved of the greatest service. Its success in England has 

 been uncertain. Sometimes the patients found no relief, but thought 

 their complaints rather aggravated than alleviated ; whilst, in other cal- 

 culous and nephritic cases, the symptoms have been almost entirely re. 

 moved. Perhaps, upon the whole, we shall find it no better than other 

 vegetable astringents ; some of which have long been used by the country 

 people, in gravelly complaints, and with very great advantage : though 



hitherto unnoticed by the regular practitioners. — Horses, cows, goats, and 

 *Ueej> refuse \U 



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