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HAS. Abundant on dry,, heathy, rocky places in the Highlands, and 

 Western isles. Fl. May. T? . 



Stems very long and trailing ; leaves obovate, stiff, rigid, smooth, their 

 margins revolute. Flowers in a small clustered raceme, terminal, 

 beautiful rose colour. Berry small, red, austere, mealy, but afford- 

 ing an excellent food for the moor game. 



5. PYROLA. 



* Stalk with a single Jlower. 



1. P. uniflora (single -flowered Winter- green), stalk bearing a 

 solitary flower, leaves suborbicular. E. B. t. 146. 



HAB. Fir-wood, near Brodie House, by Forres, Mr. Brodie and Mr. 

 Hoy. Fl. July. I/. . 



I had once the pleasure of gathering this truly rare plant in company 

 with its discoverer the Laird of Brodie. In Switzerland it is so 

 abundant as to perfume the woods with its delightful smell. The 

 stem is scarcely an inch high, with a few rather small and obscurely 

 serrated petiolated leaves. Peduncle 2 inches long, with 1 bractea. 

 Flower large, nearly white. Style short, straight. Stigma large, 

 rayed. 



** Flowers racemed, secund. 



2. P. secunda (serrated Winter- green), flowers all leaning one 

 way, leaves ovate serrated. Lightf. p. 219. E. B. t. 517. 



HAB. Shady birch- woods among moss about Little Loch Broom and 

 Loch Mari, Ross -shire, and in the birch-woods of Trosscraig j 

 Craig-loisgt and Coille-mhor j about Loch Rannoch, Perthshire, 

 Lightf. Gordon Castle woods, Mr. Brown. Culloden woods, near 

 Inverness, Mr. Murray. Between Ballacheulish and Appin House 

 in Upper Lorn, Dr. Walker. Fl. July. 3/ . 



Stems rather straggling, branched. Flowerstalks 4 5 inches high, 

 with several oval scales or bracteas. Flowers white. Style long, 

 straight. Stigma large. 



*** Flowers racemed, pointing in various directions. 



3. P.rotnndifolia (round-leaved Winter-green), leaves obovato- 

 rotundate slightly crenate, style bent down much longer than 

 the ascending stam. Lighlf.p.2\8. JE.B.t.213. 



HAB. Dry woods and sometimes upon heaths, not unfrequent. Woods 

 at Auchindenny and on the banks of the Clyde about the Falls ; 

 woods at Blair Athol, and heaths about Dunkeld, Lightf. Peebles- 

 shire, Mr. Stewart. Callender, Mr. Arnott. Culloden woods near 

 Inverness, Mr. Murray. Rare in the Lowlands, JD. Don. Fl. July, 

 Sept. I/ . 



The largest of the species, with white spreading flowers, well distin- 

 guished by the direction and relative length of the stam. and style. 

 The latter is more than twice as long as the fully formed caps, and 

 singularly curved downward atthe base, upwards again towards the 

 extremity. Stigma with 5 erect points. 

 ' 4. P. media (intermediate Winter -green), leaves ovato-rotund 



