78 SWISS FLOWERS. 



is entirely whitish cream-coloured^ including its scale-like 

 leaves, and puts one in mind of a Broomrape, or Bird's- 

 nest Orchis. Wengen. 



59 and 60. Pyrola. 



(PLATES XXX. and XXXIV.) 



None of these pretty plants are common with us, though 

 all the three we mention are given as British species. 

 They have five petals and ten stamens ; the pistil in most of 

 the species is very conspicuous. The most common, per- 

 haps, is P. rotundifolia, the ten, or twenty, white round 

 bells of which hang on a stalk about nine inches long, some- 

 what in the fashion of a Lily of the Valley, only rather 

 more clustered at the top, a bract springing from each 

 flower. The flowers are sweet-scented, with golden anthers ; 

 but the characteristic of the plant is its reddish style, which 

 is trumpet-like in form and stretches beyond tlie stamens. 

 The leaves are smooth, shining, roundish, and crenate. 

 Common in moist woods, P. minor (Fig. 59) is distinguished 

 from the above by its smaller size, its less-opened petals, 

 which hang more like a bead, its much shorter style, and 

 its more oval-toothed leaves. P. uniflora (Fig. 60) is known 

 by the single flower which each stalk, from one to three 



