402 MONOTROPACE^;. 



ORD. LI. MONOTKOPACEJE. THE BIRD'S-NEST 

 TRIBE. 



Sepals 4 5, not falling off ; corolla regular, deeply 

 divided into as many lobes or petals as there are sepals ; 

 stamens twice as many as the lobes of the corolla ; an- 

 thers opening by pores ; ovary 4 5 celled, sometimes 

 imperfectly so ; style 1, often bent ; stigma generally 

 lobed ; fruit a dry capsule ; seeds covered with a loose 

 skin. A small and unimportant Order, containing but 

 two British genera, Pyrola, a family of plants with some- 

 what shrubby, unbranched stems; simple, smooth, veiny 

 evergreen leaves, and large, often fragrant, flowers, which 

 grow either singly or in a stalked terminal cluster : and 

 Monotropa, a leafless parasitic plant, with the habit of 

 an Orobanche (Broom-rape), growing on the roots of 

 Firs, and other trees. 



1. PYROLA (Winter-green). Sepals 5 ; corolla of 

 5 deep lobes or petals ; stamens 10 ; anthers 2-celled ; 

 stigma 5-lobed. (Name signifying a little Pear, from 

 the fancied resemblance between its leaves and those of 

 that tree.) 



2. MONOTROPA (Bird's-nest). Sepals 4 5 ; petals 

 4 5, swollen at the base ; stamens 8 10 ; anthers 

 1 -celled ; stigma flat, not lobed. (Name from the Greek 

 monos, one, and trepo, to turn, the flowers being turned 

 all one way.) 



1. PYROLA (Winter-green). 



1. P. uniflora (Single-flowered Winter-green). 

 Leaves nearly round ; flower solitary, drooping. Moun- 

 tainous woods in Scotland ; rare. A remarkably pretty 

 plant, bearing several roundish, egg-shaped, smooth, and 

 veiny leaves, and running up into a single flower-stalk, 

 which bears one large, elegant, white, highly fragrant 

 flower. Fl. July. Perennial. 



* The other species of Winter-green, which bear each 



