218 HOLLY FAMILY. 



20. PYROLA, WINTERGKEEN, SHIN-LEAF. (Old name, diminu- 

 tive of Pyrns, the Pear-tree, the application not obvious.) Flowers mostly 

 greenish-white, in summer.) 



* Flowers nodding, the petals partly expanding, the hanging style more or less 



curved, tipped with a narroio stigma, and stamens ascending. 



P. rotundifdlia. Damp or sandy woods ; has thick and shining round 

 leaves on short petioles, many-flowered raceme, and blunt anthers : a variety in 

 bogs has rose-purple flowers. 



P. elliptica. Rich woods N. ; has thinnish and dull upright leaves on 

 rather long and margined petioles ; the greenish-white flowers nearly as in the 

 preceding. 



P. chlorantha. Open woods N. ; smaller, the scape only 5' - 6' high, with 

 a few greenish-white flowers, thick but dull roundish leaves only 1' long, and 

 anthers short-horned. 



* * Flowers all turned to one side, rather spreading than nodding, the petals con- 



niving, stamens and style straight, stigma large and 5-rayed. 

 P. Seciinda. Rich woods N. & E. : slender, 3' - 6' high, with thin ovate 

 leaves and dense spike-like raceme. 



21. MONESES, ONE-FLOWERED WINTERGREEN. (Name, from 

 the Greek, refers to the solitary flower.) Flowering in early summer. 



M. uniflora. Cold woods N. E. : with roundish and serrate veiny leaves 

 about ' long, scape 2' - 4' high, and rather large white or rose-colored flower. 



22. CHIMAPHILA, PIPSISSEWA or PRINCES -PINE. (Name 

 from Greek, means lover of winter, i e. AVmtergrcen ) Plants of dry woods, 

 branched at base, 3'- 10'* high, with fragrant wax-like mostly flesh-colored 

 flowers, in early summer. 



C. umbellata, COMMON P. Leaves wedge-lanceolate, sharply serrate, not 

 spotted ; flowers 4-7, with violet-colored anthers. 



C. maculata, SPOTTED P. Lower, 3' -6' high, with ovate-lanceolate 

 remotely toothed leaves blotched with white, and 1-5 flowers. 



23. MONOTBOPA, INDIAN PIPE. (Name from the Greek, refers to 

 the flower or summit of the stem turned over to one side or hanging : in 

 fruit it straightens.) Fl. summer. 



M. uniflbra, COMMON INDIAN PIPE or CORPSE-PLAXT ; in rich woods ,- 

 smooth, waxy- white all over, 3' - 6' high, with one rather large nodding flower 

 of 5 petals and 10 stamens. 



M. Hyp6pitys, PINE-SAP or FALSE BEECH-DROPS ; in Oak and Pine 

 woods; rather downy, tawny or reddish, fragrant, 4' -12' high, with several 

 smallish flowers in a scaly raceme, having 4 petals and 8 stamens, or the upper- 

 most 5 petals and 10 stamens. 



65. AQUIFOLIACE^E, HOLLY FAMILY. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves, small mostly po- 

 lygamous or dioecious axillary flowers, having divisions of the free 

 calyx, petals (these almost or quite distinct), stamens (alternate 

 with petals), and cells of the ovary of the same number (4 - 6 or 

 even 9, and fruit berry-like, containing 4 r- 6 single-seeded little 

 stones. Solitary ovule hanging from the top of each cell. Sessile 

 Btigmas 4-6, or united into one. Flowers white. 



NEMOPANTHES CANADENSIS, sometimes called MOUNTAIN HOL- 

 LY, shrub with slender petals and large dull red berries, in cold 

 woods or bogs N., is the only representative besides the species of 



