274 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



many-flowered; calix (appressecl) shorter than the stami- 

 na. (Leaves ojjaque, roundish, lamina shorter that the 

 petiole. )~S\vartz, in Stockholm Trans. 1810. p. 190. t. 

 5. A very correct fig-ure. P. asarifoUa. Michaux, Flor. 

 Am. 1. p. 251. P. convoliita. W. Barton, Prodr. Flor. 

 Philad. p. 50. ,Hab. Recently discovered in Sweden by 

 Swartz. Abundant in the sandy pine forests of New Jer- 

 sey, nearPliiladelphia, &c. Obs. Leaves smaller ihan in 

 P. rolundifolia, dark-green and not lucid, roundish-oval 

 or more dilated and emarginate, margin obsoletely and 

 repandly crenulate, lamina mostly longer than the petiole 

 which is neany destitute of a margin; scape naked, or 

 w^ith a single scale, acutely triquetrous, often remarkably 

 convolute; bractes linear-lanceolate, shorter than the pe- 

 duncles; calix 5-toothed, segments subsemi-ovaie, dilated, 

 subacute, appressed to the corolla; flowers greenish, and 

 almost destitute of odor; petals nearly equal with the sta- 

 mina; stigma annulate, 5-lobed, viscid; capsule roundish, 

 umbilicately depressed, margins of the valves connected 

 by an intricate tomentum, free at the base. 



7. dentata. Rees Encycl. under. iPj/ro/«, with the 2 fol- 

 lowing. 8. aphylla. A 'species said to be destitute of 

 leaves. 9. picta. Leaves ovate, subserrate, discoloured, 

 flowers secund, pores of tlie anthers tubular. — Collected 

 by A. Menzies, Esq. on the North West coast of Ameri- 

 ca, with the 2 preceding. 



A genus almost equally indigenous to Northern Eu- 

 rope, Asia, and North America. 



390. CHIMAPHILA. Furslu (Umbellate Win- 

 ter-green.) 



Calix 5-toothed. Petals 5. Style very short, 

 immersed in the germ; >S^f%ma annulate, orbicu- 

 lar, with a 5-!obed disk. Filaments stipitate; 

 stipe discoid, ciliate. Capsule 5 celled, opening 

 from the summit, margins unconnected. 



Low suflTruticose plants with evergreen serrated leaves, 

 almost verticillately aggregated; scapes naked, umbellate. 

 Anthers biporose at the base, becoming inverted in inflo- 

 rescence. 



Species. 1. C wnbellata. Oes. Stem proliferous; sta- 

 rnina sometimes 12 with 6 petals, &c. proper filaments ari- 

 sing from so many pedicells about the same length, which 

 are thick, angular, and acutely terminated below, discoid 

 above, with a ciliate or pubescent raargm, disk violace- 



