CLASS X. ORDER I.] PYROLA. 587 



notched at the end, smooth, dark shining green above, paler beneath, 

 having a raid-rib and netted veins, equally as prominent on. the upper 

 as the under side, the footstalk from two to three inches long, flattish, 

 somewhat channeled above. Stem from six to twelve inches high, 

 somewhat angular, with prominent stria, and generally in a spiral 

 manner, smooth, erect, terminating in an elongated raceme of nume- 

 rous white flowers, each elevated on a short drooping peduncle, equally 

 on all sides, arising from the axis of an elliptic lanceolate bractea, of 

 a pale green colour, longer than the peduncle, and frequently scattered, 

 on the stem are several somewhat membranous scales. Calyx with 

 five lanceolate acuminate segments, each three ribbed, often pinkish, 

 about half as long as the corolla, persistent. Corolla of five oblong 

 ovate petals, slightly united at the base, white. Stamens with awl- 

 shaped filaments, all curved inwards, scarcely more than half as long 

 as the style. Anthers large, yellow, of two cells, each opening at the 

 apex with a somewhat tubular pore. Style as long again as the 

 stamens, bent downwards at the base, but curved upwards towards the 

 extremity. Sligma with a fleshy ring around five projecting points. 

 Capsule orbicular, of five acute lobes, depressed at the top around the 

 central persistent style, five celled, five valved, bursting from the base 

 at the angles, which are united by woolly hairs. Seeds numerous, 

 attached to a central placenta, small, invested with a membranous 

 arillus, elongated at each end. 



Habitat. Moist woods and shady places ; rare. Near Brad well and 

 Middleton, Suffolk ; Larlingford, Norfolk. Rev. G. R. Lealhes. 

 Kent. Rev. G. E. Smith. Gnunacha Wood, Forfarshire, and other 

 places in Scotland. Mr. J. D. Hooker. Near Garvagh, County of 

 Derry, Ireland. Mr. D. Moore. 



Perennial ; flowering from July to September. 



This is the largest of our species of Pyrola. The flowers have a 

 pleasant fragrance, and are readily known by the curious long curved 

 style, and the lanceolate segments of the calyx. It has been fre- 

 quently mistaken for both of the following species, with which it often 

 grows, but they are all three readily distinguished from each other. 



2. P. me'dia, Swartz. (Fig. 667.) Intermediate Winter-green. 

 Flowers drooping, racemed ; leaves obovate, rotundate, crenated ; 

 style longer than the slightly incurved stamens and corolla, straight, or 

 slightly curved ; stigma with a fleshy ring, round, five erect points ; 

 calyx of five short ovate lanceolate teeth. 



English Botany, t. 1945. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 256. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 192. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 175. 



Root fibrous, with creeping underground stems. Leaves from four 

 to six, arising from the base of the stem, ovate or obovate, or roundish, 

 the margins distinctly crenated, and frequently notched at the end, 

 quite smooth, of a deep shining green above, paler beneath, with a 



