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green. Scape 5—9/ high, slender, seldom bracteate, bearing short racemes. 
Flowers nodding, very fragrant. Pedicels longer than the bracts, but only half 
as long as the declinate, recurved style. Petals white. July. (See Appendiz.) 
§ 2. Stamens erect. Style straight. 
5. P. sEcunDA. One-sided Pyrola. 
Lvs. ovate, acute, subserrate, longer than the petiole; rac, secund.—In dry 
woods, Can. and N. States. Siem 2—3’ high, bearing one or two fascicles of 
leaves near the summit. Leaves broadly ovate, acute at each end, witha 
ressed, pointed serratures. Petioles 1’ long. Peduncles scape-like, 5—7' high, 
earing a 1-sided cluster of 10—15 greenish-white flowers. Petals oblong, 
shorter than the style. June, July. 
6. P. minor. Smaller Pyrola. . 
Lvs. roundish-ovate, coriaceous, repand-crenulate ; petiole dilated at base, 
shorter than the lamina; rac. subspicate ; bracts equaling or exceeding the pedi- 
cel; cal. lobes short, subacute; sty. included; stig. 5-lobed.—White Mts., N. H., 
Mich. and Brit. Am. Scape angular. Leaves mucronulate at apex. Corolla 
globose, white, slightly tinged with purple. 
18. MONESES. Salisb. 
Calyx 5-parted; cor. 5-parted, rotate; sta. 10, regular, 2-spurred 
at base, at length inverted, opening by 2 pores at apex; sty. rigid ; 
stig. peltate, radiately 5-cleft or lobed; caps. 5-valved, 5-celled, many- 
seeded.—% Low, sumple, smooth. Lvs. at top of the stem roundish, crenur 
late, petiolate, veny. Peduncle terminal, one-flowered, longer than the 
stamens. £ls. white. 
M. cranpirLora. Salisb. (Pyrola uniflora. Linn. and 1st edit.) 
Woods, among mosses, &c., Keene, N. H., Bigelow. Dexter, Jeff. Co., 
N. Y., Vasey! Brit. Am. Root creeping. Stem ascending, very short. Leaves 
‘J—9" diam. Scape or peduncle about 3’ high, slender, with a bract near the 
middle. Flower 9’ diam. June. 
19. CHIMAPHILA, 
Gr. xélpa, winter, pirew, to love; equivalent to the English name, Wintergreen. 
Calyx 5-parted; pet. 5, spreading; sta. 10; fil. dilated in the 
middle ; anth. as in Pyrola; sty. short, thick; caps. 5-celled, open- 
ing from the summit; seeds 00.—Smaill, suffruticose, evergreen plants, 
with the habit of Pyrola. Lvs. cauline, serrate, evergreen, opposite or 
arregularly verticillate. Fis. terminal. 
1. C. umpetLata. Nutt. (Pyrola. Linn.) Prince’s Pine. Pipsissiwa. 
Tvs. cuneate-lanceolate, serrate, in 4s—6s ; fls. corymbose; bracts linear- 
subulate ; sty. immersed in the ovary.—%| In dry woods, flowering in July. 
A common and beautiful evergreen, N. Eng. to Ohio? and Can. Leaves in 2 
or more irregular whorls, 2—3’ long, } as wide, remotely and distinctly serrate, 
on short petioles, coriaceous, shining, of a uniform dark green color. Pedun- 
cle terminal, erect, 3—4’ long, bearing 4—7 light purple flowers on nodding 
peli re long. Both this and the following species are tonic and diuretic. 
Bw. July. 
2. C. MacuLéra. Pursh. (Pyrola. Linn.) Spotted Wintergreen. 
Tvs. lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at base, remotely serrate, discolored, 
opposite or in 3s; ped. corymbose, 2—3-flowered ; fil. woolly.—Can. to Car.. 
Ohio, in sandy woods. Habits much like the last, but it is readily distinguished 
by its variegated leaves. Stem 3—4’ high. Leaves 1—2’ long, 4 as wide, 
marked with a whitish line along the midvein and veinlets. Flowers purplish- 
white, on nodding pedicels. June, July. 
