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firm, finaller, rather oblong than orbicular, with an obtufe 

 point, and fome times lightly ferrated. It flowers in June. The 

 tube is incurvated or hooked. The ftamina are reflex or turn 

 up to guard the ovary. 



139. Small Winter-green -with roundi/Jy ferrate-leaves (a). On the 

 borders of Ramjhoiu-\focx\, by the road-fide, with the former, 

 plentifully. I never obferved it in any other place. The leaves 

 are roundifli, mucronated, firm, and lightly ferrated. The ftalk 

 is from three to four or five inches high, and of the fame fliape 

 as the former. The flowers are in a fliort fpike, clofe and com- 

 paft, of a bright white, and always with a beautiful blufli of 

 red. The tube is fhort, ftraight, broad at the end, and divided 

 into five parts. The ftamina are revolute or bend inwards, to 

 protect the ovary. It flowers at the fame time with the former. 



The leaves of both kinds are aftringent. They are ufed for 

 wounds and bruifes, by decoction, infufion, fomentation, or in 

 an ointment. They are commended for ulcers in the breaft. 



140. Winter-green, -with Cbickiveed-Jloivers (b), faid by Mr. Ray to 

 grow among the bufhes in mountainous places north of the 



(a) Pyrola folio ferrato. /. B. iii. p. 536. Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1233. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 505. 

 Pyrola folio mucronato fenato. C. B. Pin. p. 181. Tourn. Inft. p. 256. Raj. Syn. iii. 

 P- 3 6 3- Pyola folio mucronato. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 236. Pyrola tenerior. Park. Theatr. 

 p. 509. Pyrola fecunda CLUSII. Ger. emac. p. 408. Pyrola altera, Offic. Dal. Pharm. 

 p. 237. Pyrola floribus racemofis difperfis, ftaminibus piftillifque reclis. Linn. Flo. Suec. 

 P- 33'- Pyola foliis obiter ferratis fubrotundis, racemofis floribus, tuba refta. Hall. Helv. 

 p. 420. Pyrola tuba recta minor, folio frequentius ferrato, fpica breviore & denfiore. Hall. 

 Here. 7. 



(b) HerbaTrientalis. I. B. iii. p. 506. Pyrola Alfmes flore EUROPE A. C. B. Pin. 

 p. 191. Alfinanthemos. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 286. Trientalis. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 139. Flo. 

 Suec. n. 302. Royen, lugdb. p. 432. 



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