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In bogs and swamps, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to Vermont, 

 central New York, Michigan. Colorado and California. Considered by 

 some botanists as identical with Pyrola incarnata Fischer, of 

 northern Asia. Flowering in June and July. Rather abundant in open 

 sphagnum bogs of Herkimer, Oneida, Oswego, Madison and Onondaga 

 counties, also in Bergen swamp, Genesee county, and doubtless in other 

 similar bogs throughout western and northern New York. 



Shinleaf 



Pyrola elliptica Nuttall 



Plate I sib 



Leaves broadly oval or elliptical, not evergreen, rather thin and dark 

 green, blunt, rounded or narrowed at the base, the margins wavy or 

 plicate-crenulate with very low teeth; i to 4 inches long, usually longer 

 than the petioles, all basal. Flowers whitish, nodding, one-half to two- 

 thirds of an inch broad, fragrant, racemose on scapes or stalks, 5 to 10 

 inches high; calyx lobes five, ovate-triangular, sharp pointed; petals five, 

 blunt, flat, about four times as long as the calyx lobes; stamens ten, 

 declined, style also declined, its apex curved upward. Fruit capsule 

 five-lobed, five-celled, the valves cobwebby on the margins when splitting 

 open, about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. 



In rich soil of rather dry woods and clearings, Nova Scotia to British 

 Columbia, south to Maryland, Illinois, Iowa and in the Rocky mountains 

 to New Mexico. Our commonest species of Pyrola. Flowering from the 

 latter part of June to August. 



Round-leaved American Wintergreen 



Pyrola americana Sweet 



Figure XX 



Flowering scape 6 to 20 inches high with five to twenty flowers in a 

 terminal raceme, the flowers in the axils of small bracts. Leaves basal, 

 orbicular or oval, spreading, blunt, thick in texture, evergreen and shining 

 above, the margins crenulate, narrowed, rounded or slightly heart-shaped 



