WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 487 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



Sterns leafy; flowers corymbose 1 . Chimaphila (p. 487). 



Stems Bcapiform, naked; leaves basal; proper stems short; 

 flowers not corymbose. 



Flowers racemose 2. Pyrola (p. 487). 



Flowers solitary 3. Moneses (p. 488). 



1. CHIMAPHILA Pursh. Pipsisskwa. 



Low perennial herb with thick evergreen shining leaves rather crowded on the 

 short suffrnticose stems; flowers purplish, fragrant, in a terminal corymb; stamens 10; 

 filaments enlarged and hairy at the middle; style short, inversely conicab immersed 

 in the depressed summit of the globular ovary; stigma broad, orbicular, 5-crenate. 



1. Chimaphila umbeUata (L.) Nutt. Gen. PL 1: 274. 1818. 



Pyrola umbeUata L. Sp. PL 396. 1753. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae, Asiae et Americae septentrional is sylvis." 



RanCxE: British America to Georgia and Mexico; also in Europe and Asia. 



New Mexico:. Elizabeth town; Harveys Upper Ranch; Gallinas Planting Station; 

 Mogollon Mountains. Deep woods, in the Canadian and Iludsonian zones. 



2. PYROLA L. Wintergreen. 



Small perennial evergreen herbs with basal leaves on a short scaly stem arising 

 from a slender rhizome; flowers white, greenish, or purplish, in terminal racemes, 

 nodding; stamens 10, the anthers emarginate or 2-beaked at the base; disk usually 

 obsolete; ovary 5-valved from the base, the valves with cobwebby margins. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Style straight; stamens connivent 1. P. secunda. 



Style and stamens declined. 



Leaves mottled 2. P. picta. 



Leaves green, not mottled. 



Leaves reniform, cordate ; flowers pink :! . P. asari/olia. 



Leaves rounded or narrowed at the base; flowers greenish 

 while. 

 Leaf blades orbicular, coriaceous, usually shorter than 



the ] iet iules 4. P. <li luni nihil . 



Leaf blades oval or obovate, thin, longer than the peti- 

 oles 5. /'. < lliptica. 



1. Pyrola secunda L. Sp. PI. 396. 1753. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europa frigidiore." 



Range: British America to California and Virginia; also in Europe and Asia. 

 New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Rio Pueblo; Winsor Creek; Harveys I pper 

 Ranch; Mogollon Mountains. Deep woods, in the Canadian and Transition 



2. Pyrola picta J. E. Smith, Rees's Cycl. 29: no. 8. L814. 

 Type lo< uuty: "Found on the west coasl of North Lmerica 



Range: British Columbia and Wyoming to California and \<u Mexico. 

 Xi.w Mexico: Harveys Upper Ranch; Mogollon Mountains Deep woods, in the 

 < Canadian and 1 1 iidsoni/ui /.ones. 



3. Pyrola asarifolia Mielix. PI. Box. Amer. 1:251. I- 1 

 Pyrola rotundifolia aaartfolia Hook. PI. Bor. \m.-r. 9: 16 1834. 



Ti PE LOCALITY: Nol staled. 



Rangi British America to Nfe^ Mexico, Minnesota, and Massachusetts 



SIi ico : Santa Fe and I mountains. Cold w Is, in the Ca n a dian 



and Hud onian zones. 



