Vor. II] ; WINTERGREEN FAMILY. 553 
1. Moneses uniflora (1,.) A. Gray. One-flowered Wintergreen. (Fig. 2734.) 
Pyrola uniflora I. Sp. Pl..397. 1753. 
Moneses grandifiora S. F. Gray, Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 
403. 1821. 
Moneses uniflora A. Gray, Man. 273. 1848. 
Stem bearing 1-3 pairs or whorls of leaves 
at the base, continued above into a bracted or 
naked scape 2’-6’ high. Blades orbicular or 
ovate, obtuse at the apex, narrowed, rounded 
or sometimes subcordate at the base, rather 
thin, 4’’-12’’ long, longer than or equalling 
their petioles; flowers 6//-10’ broad; calyx- 
lobes ovate, obtuse, about one-fifth the length 
of the petals; capsule erect, 3//-4’’ in diame- 
ter, about as long as the persistent style and 
conspicuously lobed stigma. 
In woods, Labrador to Alaska, south to Con- 
necticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan, in the Rocky 
Mountains to Colorado and to Oregon. Ascends 
to 4ooo ft. in the Adirondacks. Also in Europe 
and Asia. June—Aug. 
3. CHIMAPHILA Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 279. 1814. 
Perennial herbs, with decumbent stems, ascending leafy branches, the leaves opposite, 
or verticillate, coriaceous, evergreen, short-petioled and serrate, and spreading or nodding 
white or purplish flowers in terminal corymbs. Pedicels mostly bracteolate. Calyx 5-cleft, 
or 5-parted, persistent. Petals 5, concave, nearly orbicular, sessile, spreading or recurved. 
Stamens 10, similar to those of Pyrola, the filaments usually somewhat pubescent. Ovary 
globose, 5-lobed, 5-celled; ovules numerous in the cavities; style very short, obconic; stigma 
large, orbicular, 5-crenate. Capsule erect, globose, 5-lobed, 5-celled, loculicidally 5-valved 
from the top, the valves not woolly on the margins. Seeds numerous, minute, the testa 
reticulated, produced at each end. [Greek, winter-loving, from its evergreen leaves. ] 
About 6 species, natives of North America, Mexico and northeastern Asia. Besides the follow- 
ing another occurs on our Pacific Coast. 
Leaves lanceolate, mottled with white. 1. C. maculata. 
Leaves spatulate or cuneate-oblanceolate, bright green. 2. C. umbellata. 
1. Chimaphila maculata (I,.) Pursh. 
Spotted Wintergreen. (Fig. 2735.) 
Pyrola maculata 1,. Sp. Pl. 396. 1753. 
ee a maculata Pursh, Fl, Am. Sept. 300. 
Stem extensively trailing, creeping or hori- 
zontally subterranean, sending up both sterile 
and flowering branches 3/-10’ high. Leaves 
lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or the lower much 
shorter and ovate, acute or acuminate at the 
apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, sharply 
serrate with rather distant teeth, dark green 
and mottled with white along the veins, 1/-3/ 
long, 3/’-12’’ wide below the middle; flowers 
few, corymbose or umbellate, white or pinkish, 
6’’-10’" broad; peduncle and pedicels puberu- 
lent; filaments villous at the middle; capsules 
erect, depressed-globose, about 4’ in diameter. 
In dry woods, Maine and Ontario to Minnesota, 
south to Georgia and Mississippi. Ascends to 
4200 ft. in North Carolina. June-Aug. 
