PYROLACEAE, 145 
Family PYROLACEAE. Shin-leaf Family. 
A small family of evergreen herbs of no economic value 
but sometimes effective as undershrubs and among the most 
attractive of the small plants of the woods. 
CHIMAPHILA. Pipsissewa. 
Scarcely woody evergreens with short simple erect stems; 
few rather lanceolate toothed moderate-sized more or less clus- 
tered firm subsessile leaves; 1 or few saucer-shaped polypetal- 
ous pale flowers on a terminal stalk, rather large for the size 
of the plant; and depressed 5-lobed capsules. 
Leaves oblanceolate, green, (Prince’s pine). C. umbellata. 
Leaves ovate or broadly lanceolate, white-veined. C. maculata. 
MoneEses. One-flowered Shin-leaf. 
Small perennial low evergreen with several small crenate 
wing-petioled leaves clustered at end of short erect herbaceous 
stems; perfect white or rosy open polypetalous flowers solitary 
on a terminal scape; and subglobose-depressed many-seeded 
capsules. 
Leaves round-ovate or obovate, cuneate. M. uniflora. 
Pyros, Shin-leaf. 
Evergreen perennial herbs with mostly several clustered 
long-stalked nearly entire almost basal leaves; relatively large 
whitish polypetalous perfect open flowers in a long-stalked ra- 
ceme; and depressed small many-seeded capsules dehiscing from 
the base. 
1. Leaves distributed on the stem, small. : P. secunda. 
Leaves basal. 2. 
z. Often broader than long. 3. 
Mostly longer than broad, dull. P. elliptica. 
3. Small (2-3 cm.): flowers greenish. P. chlorantha, 
Large (4 cm.): glossy. 4. 
4. Flowers rosy. P. asarifolia. 
Flowers white. P. americana. 
