NAT. ORDER. 



PyrolacecR. 



P¥ROLLA UMBELLATA. PIPSISSEWA. 



Class X. Decandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, in five deep segments. Petals, five. Capsule, 



superior, five-celled, bursting at the angles. Anthers, opening 



by two pores. . . 



Spe. Char. Leaves, wedge-shaped, lanceolate, serrated. Flotcers, 

 somewhat umbellate. Sta?nens, smooth. Style, immersed. 



The root is perennial, creeping, and long, sending up at various 

 distances several woody, somewhat angular, erect, or slightly pro- 

 cumbent 5^e/«5, which rise about a span in height; the leaves are 

 produced in irregular whorls, of which there are usually two or 

 three on each stem, — they are wedge-shaped, lanceolate, serrated, 

 smooth, supported upon short petioles, and are of a deep shining 

 green ; the i7iJlo7-escence consists of a small corymb, generally of 

 five flowers, on simple, nodding pedicells ; the calyx is inferior, and 

 consists of five roundish, permanent segments, much shorter than 

 the corolla ; the petals are five, roundish, concave, spreading, of a 

 cream color, with a tinge of crimson at the base ; the filaments are 

 ten, which are awl-shaped, curved, and supporting large two-celled 

 anthers, of a purple color ; each cell opening by a short, round, 

 tubular orifice, at the summit ; the style is cylindrical, half the 

 length of the germen, and concealed by the stigma, which is large, 

 pelate, covered by a viscid matter, and obscurely five-rayed ; the 

 capsules are orbicular, depressed, with five valves, five cells, and 

 five partitions, from the central column ; the seeds are very minute, 



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