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tlie apex downward, the edges of the valves not woolly. — I^w, nearly herba- 

 eeous plants, with long running underground shoots, and evergreen thiik and 

 shining leaves, somewhat whorled or scattered along tlie sliort ascending stems ; 

 the fragrant (white or purplish) flowers corymbed or umhelled on a terminal 

 ])eduncle. (Name from x^'M"* winter, and <pi\4u}, to lore, in allusion to one of 

 the ])opular nanus, viz., Wiutcrt/reeu.) 



1. C. umbellata, Nutt. (Pkinxe's I'ine. Tii'sisskwa.) I.e:ify, 4- 

 10' high; leaves icedije-laiiceulate, sliarply serrate, jwt spotted ; peiluncles 4-7- 

 flowered; ])etals flesh-color; anthers violet. — Dry woods. Nova Scotia to Ga., 

 west to the racific. June. (Eu.) 



2. C. maculata, Tursh. (Spottkd Wintergkklx.) Lear-es ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse at the lase, remotely toothed, the upper surface variegated with 

 ichite ; peduncles 1 -5-flowered. — Dry woods, N. Eng. to Ga., west to Minn. 

 and Miss. June, July. — Plant .'J - G' high. 



22. MONESES, Salisb. Onk-flowkukd Pvrola. 



Petals 5, widely sjireading, orbicular. Filaments awl-shaped, naked ; an- 

 thers as in Pyrola, but conspicuously 2-horned. Style straight, exserted ; 

 stigma large, peltate, with 5 narrow and conspicuous radiating lobes. Valves 

 of the capsule naked. (Flowers occasionally tetramerous.) Scape 1 -flowered. 

 ( )t]ierwi.se as Pyrola ; intermediate between it and Cliimapliila. (Name formed 

 of fjiovos, single, and ricris, delight, from the pretty solitary flowei'.) 



1. M. grandiflora, Salisb. A small perennial, with the rounded and 

 veiny serrate thin leaves (6 - 9" long) clustered at the ascending apex of creep- 

 ing subterranean shoots ; the 1 - 2-bracted scape (2 - 4' high) bearing a white 

 or rose-colored terminal flower 6" wide. (M. uniflora, Grag.) — Deep cold 

 woods, Labrador to Peun., Ind., xMiun., and westward. June. (Eu.) 



23. PYROLA, Tourn. Wintergkeex. Siiix-le.vk. 



Calyx 5-parted, persistent. I'etals 5, concave and more or less converging, 

 deciduous. Stamens 10; filaments awl-shaped, naked: anthers extrorse in 

 the bud, but in tlie flower inverted by the inflexion of the apex of the fila- 

 ment, more or less 4-celled, opening by a pair of pores at the blunt or some- 

 what 2-horned base (by inversion the apparent apex) Style generally long ; 

 stigma 5-lobed or 5-rayed. Capsule depressed-globose. 5-lobed, .5-celled, 5 

 valved from the base upward (loculicidal) ; the valves cobwebby on tlie 

 edges. Seeds minute, innumerable, resembling sawdust, with a very hmse 

 cellular-reticulated coat. — Low and smooth perennial herbs, witli running 

 subterranean shoots, bearing a cluster of rounded j)etioled evergreen root- 

 leaves, and a simple raceme of nodding flowers, on an upright more or less 

 scaly-bracted sca])e. (Name a diminutive of Pi/rus, the Pear-tree, from some 

 fancied resemblance in the foliage.) 



* Stgle straight, much narrower than the peltate 5-rai/ed stigma, petals and 

 stamens erect and connivent ; anthers not narrowed below the openings. 



1. P. minor, L. Scape 5-10' high-, leaves roundish, slightly crenulate, 

 thickish, mostly longer than the margined petiole flowers small, crowded, 

 white or rose-color; calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, very much shorter ilian the 



