PYROLA HLLIPTICA. 



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NATURAL ORDKR, KRICACK/E. 



Tyrola ELLIPTICA, Nuttall. — I>eaves membranaceous, oblong-oval and obtuse, or elliptic-ovate, 

 plicately serrulate and acute, lamina always much longer than the petiole ; scape naked 

 or furnished vkith a single scale ; branches linear and subulate; calyx five-toothed, points 

 subulate, reflected. (Nuttall's Genera of A'orlh Ameriitin rUints. See also Gray's 

 Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, Gray's Synoptical Flora of North 

 America, Wood's Class-Book of Botany, and Darlington's Flora Cestrica.) 



HE species of Pyrola which we are about to introduce to 

 the reader seems to have been confounded with the more 

 common Pyrola rotundlfolla^ until the distinction between the 

 two was pointed out by Nuttall, in his " Genera of North Amer- 

 ican Plants," published in iSi8. We have therefore adopted 

 Nuttall's description, although, as a rule, we prefer to quote 

 from those works which are most likely to be within reach of 

 the reader. 



Refcrrino: to the resemblances and differences between the 

 two species in question, the author just named goes on to say: 

 " It {i.e., Pyrola elllptlca) is common around Philadelphia and in 

 the woods of New Jersey with P.rotiuidifoHa, flowering in June. 

 It is nearly allied to P. rotundifolia, but distinct both in char- 

 acter and aspect ; the whole plant is smaller, the scapes are low 

 and slender, accompanied by smaller flowers, which are white 

 and odorous, the petals are oblong oval, about equal in length 

 with the stamina, which become fulvous, segments of the caly.K 

 semi-ovate and dilated; scapes acutely triquetrous, rarely con- 

 volute; style very long, stigma annulate, five-lobed." Dr. \V. 

 P. C. Barton, who published a "Flora of Philadelphia" in the 



