552 PYROLACEAE. (Vou. II. 
7. Pyrola minor L. Lesser Wintergreen. (Fig. 2732.) 
Pyrola minor I,. Sp. Pl. 396. 1753- 
Leaf-blades rather thin, broadly oval, or nearly 
orbicular, dark green, crenulate, obtuse but some- 
times mucronate at the apex, rounded, slightly 
narrowed, or subcordate at the base, 9’’-18’’ long; 
flowers racemose, nodding, white or pinkish, 3//- 
4’’ broad; pedicels 1//-2%4’ long, equalling or 
longer than the bracts; calyx-lobes mostly trian- 
{ gular-ovate and acute; style straight, included; 
stamens not declined, connivent around the pistil; 
petals oval or orbicular, obtuse; capsule about 214’ 
in diameter. 
In woods, Greenland and Labrador to Alaska, south 
to northern New England, western Ontario and Oregon, 
south in the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. Also 
in Europe and Asia. Called also Wood Lily. June- 
Aug. 
8. Pyrola secunda I. Serrated or One- 
sided Wintergreen. (Fig. 2733.) 
Pyrola secunda I,. Sp. Pl. 396. 1753. 
Scapes usually several together from the much- 
branched rootstock, slender, 4/-10’ high. Blades 
ovate, or often oval, mostly thin, acute, or rarely 
obtuse at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the 
base, crenulate-serrulate, 9’’-2’ long, longer than 
their petioles; flowers many, in a dense one-sided 
raceme, at first erect, soon drooping, greenish 
white, 3/’-4’’ broad; pedicels short; calyx-lobes 
ovate, obtuse, or obtusish, very short; petals oval, 
obtuse, with a pair of tubercles at the base, cam- 
panulate-connivent; style straight, exserted; sta- 
mens not declined, connivent around the pistil; 
capsule about 2’ in diameter. 
_ Inwoods and thickets, Labrador to Alaska, south to the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Mich- 
igan, along the Rocky Mountains to Mexico and to California. Ascends to 3000 ft. in the Adiron- 
dacks. Alsoin Europe and Asia. June-July. 
Pyrola secinda pumila Paine, Cat. Plants Oneida Co., N. Y. 135, is a low northern form, the scape 
-4' high, 3-8-flowered, the leaves orbicular or broadly oval, }s'-1' long. 
2, MONESES Salisb.; S. F. Gray, Arr. Brit. Plants, 2: 403. 1821. 
A low perennial glabrous herb, with a decumbent leafy base, petioled evergreen crenu- 
late leaves, opposite, or verticillate in 3’s, and a solitary drooping white or pink flower at 
the summit of a slender scape. Calyx 4-5-parted, persistent. Petals 4-5, spreading, 
broadly ovate or orbicular, sessile. Stamens 8 or 10, similar to those of Pyro/a. Disk 
obsolete. Ovary globose, 4-5-celled; style straight, club-shaped at the summit; stigma 
4-5-lobed; ovules very numerous in each cavity. Capsule subglobose, 4-5-lobed, 4-5-celled, 
loculicidally 4-5-valved from the summit, the valves glabrous on the margins. Seeds 
numerous, minute, the testa reticulated, produced at each end. [Greek, single-delight, from 
the single flower. ] 
A monotypic genus of the cooler parts of the northern hemisphere. 
