PYROLA PYROLACEZ 425 
MONESES ; 
lines broad; calyx-lobes short, ovate, or triangular-ovate, acute or obtuse: pet- 
als very obtuse, greenish-white: stamens declined; anthers distinctly contract- 
ed below the openings, with distinctly beaked tips: style declined, and toward 
the apex curved upward, longer than the petals. In dry woods, Idaho to 
Brit. Columbia and the northern States. 
P. elliptica Nutt. Gen. i, 273. Scapes 6-10 inches high, loosely 7-16- 
flowered : leaves elliptic to oval, 1-2 inches long, acute or merely roundish at 
base, plicate-crenulate with very low teeth, membranaceous, dark green, 
longer than their petioles: calyx-lobes ovate-triangular, acute or acuminate, 
about one fourth as long as the greenish-white, obtuse petals: stamens declin- 
ed: anther-tips hardly if at all beaked: style declined, and toward the apex 
curved upward, exserted. In rich, mostly dry woods, Idaho to Brit. Colum- 
bia and the eastern States. 
P. rotundifolia L. Sp. 396. Scapes 6-20 inches high, several to 
many-flowered, scaly-bracteate: leaves orbicular er broadly oval, 1-2 inches 
long, obscurely crenulate or entire, shining above, coriaceous, mostly shorter 
than the petioles: bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate: calyx-lobes lanceo- 
late or ovate-lanceolate, lax or with spreading tips, usually half as long as 
the white or flesh-colored obtuse petals: stamens declined; anthers with 
long cells, contracted into a very short neck under the openings, the mucro 
at base very short or obsolete; style declined and exserted. In dry woods, 
California to Alaska and the eastern States. 
Var. inearnata DC. Prodr. vii. 773. ‘A rather small form : flowers 
from flesh-color to rose-purple: calyx-lobes triangular-lanceolate.’’ Bogs, 
Idaho to Alaska and northern New England. 
P. bracteata Hook. Fl. ii 49. Scapes 10-16 inches high, usually 
many-flowered, scaly-bracteate: leaves oval to ovate or oblong. acutish, 
not shining above, often variegated with whitish bands, 1-3 inches long, 
on slender petioles: bracts broadly lanceolate, acuminate, large and con- 
spicuous: calyx-lobes acuminate-lanceolate, more than half as long as the 
red petals: stamens declined ; anthers with long cells contracted under the 
openings into a short neck: style declined, exserted. In wet places in the 
-mountains, California to Brit. Columbia. 
P. picta Smith Rees Cycl. xxix. Scapes 6-12 inches high, 7-16-flow- 
‘ered: leaves firm-coriaceous, dull-colored or whitish, commonly veined or 
blotched with white above, pale or sometimes purplish beneath, 1-3 inches 
ong, from broadly ovate to spatulate or narrowly oblong, the blades all 
longer t han their petioles: rootstock rigid and often branched or clustered : 
bracts few and short: calyx-lobes ovate, not half the length of the greenish- 
white petals: stamens little if at all declined: anthers with a distinct neck 
under the orifice: style strongly declined. Under Pine trees in sparsely 
wooded districts, Nootka Sound to California, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. 
RP. aphylia Smith l.c. Scapes 8-12 inches high, strictly erect, reddish 
or lurid, from deep scaly-toothed branched rootstocks, usually leafless, 
several to many-flowered: bracts subulate: calyx-lobes ovate, acute, very 
much shorter than the obovate whitish petals: stamens but slightly if at all 
declined: anthers tubular-beaked under the orifice: style almost straight, 
strongly declined. In coniferous woods, Alaska to California. 
. War. paucifolia. With or without one or two small orbicular leaves 
_at base: bracts larger, broadly lanceolate. In dense forests of the Cascade 
Mountains. 
2 MONESES Salisb. in 8. F. Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. ii, 403. 
A low perennial with opposite or verticillate evergreen leaves 
-and a solitary drooping white or pink flower at the summit of a 
