ERICACE^. 51 



The unilateral flowers are sufficient to distinguish it from the 

 other species. 



Serrated Winter-green. 



French, Pyrole Unilaterah. 



Sub-Genus II.— MONESES. Scdish. 



Corolla 5-partite ; the segments nearly flat or but slightly con- 

 cave, spreading. Anther-cells produced into horns, at the apex 

 of which arc placed the pores by which they open. Stigma with 

 5 long acute lobes. Capsule with the valves not connected by 

 fibres after dehiscence. 



SPECIES v.— PYROLA UNIPLORA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCC. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLVI. Figs. 1, 2, 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No.. 1709. 



Moneses grandiflora, Salish. D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 775. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 

 p. 218. Eoolc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 275. 



Leaves not confined to a terminal rosette, rather thin, roundish 

 or subrhomboidal-roundish, spathulate, obtuse at the apex, repand 

 or crenate-serrulate. Elow^ers solitary at the extremity of the 

 scape, at first slightly drooping, afterwards erect. Calyx-segments 

 roundish - oval, very obtuse, shortly-ciliated. Petals nearly flat, 

 spreading, white. Eilaments curved outwards at the base, then 

 ascending. Style straight, much longer than, the stamens ; stigma 

 large, peltate, with 5 elongate acute erect lobes, but destitute of 

 a ring projecting laterally below the tubercles. Capsule erect ; 

 style longer than the capsule ; stigmatic lobes elongated in fruit. 



In woods. Yery rare. At Scone, Perthshire ; fir wood at 

 Brody House, near Pores, and oak wood at Knock of Alves, near 

 Elgin, Moray ; Aberdeenshire ; fir wood near Coul, Boss-shire ; 

 islands of Harris and Bernera, in the Hebrides ; and at Dunroban, 

 in Sutherland. 



Scotland. Shrub. Summer. 



Stem short, wdth few leaves, but these distributed over it, as in 

 P. secunda. Lamina of the leaves ^ to 1 inch long, more gradually 

 attenuated into the petiole than in the other British species. Scape 



