552 PYROLACEAE. [VOL. II. 



7. Pyrola minor L. Lesser Wintergreen. (Fig. 2732.) 



Pyrola minor L. Sp. PI. 396. 1753. 



Leaf-blades rather thin, broadly oval, or nearly 

 orbicular, dark green, crenulate, obtuse but some- 

 times mucronate at the apex, rounded, slightly 

 narrowed, or subcordate at the base, g^-iS" long; 

 flowers racemose, nodding, white or pinkish, 3"- 

 4" broad ; pedicels i"-2 j" long, equalling or 

 longer than the bracts; calyx-lobes mostly trian- 

 gular-ovate and acute; style straight, included; 

 stamens not declined, connivent around the pistil; 

 petals oval or orbicular, obtuse; capsule about 2j" 

 in diameter. 



In woods, Greenland and Labrador to Alaska, south 

 to northern New England, western Ontario and Oregon, 

 south in the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. Also 

 in Kurope and Asia. Called also Wood Lily. June- 

 Aug. 



Serrated or One- 

 27330 



8. Pyrola secunda I y . 

 sided Wintergreen. 



Pyrola secunda L. Sp. PI. 396. 1753. 



Scapes usually several together from the much- 

 branched rootstock, slender, 4 / -io / high. Blades 

 ovate, or often oval, mostly thin, acute, or rarely 

 obtuse at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the 

 base, crenulate-sermlate, 9"-2' long, longer than 

 their petioles; flowers many, in a dense one-sided 

 raceme, at first erect, soon drooping, greenish 

 white, $"-4" broad; pedicels short; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, obtuse, or obtusish, very short; petals oval, 

 obtuse, with a pair of tubercles at the base, cam- 

 panulate-connivcnt; style straight, exserted; sta- 

 mens not declined, connivent around the pistil; 

 capsule about 2" in diameter. 



In woods and thickets, Labrador to Alaska, south to the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Mich- 

 igan, along the Rocky Mountains to Mexico and to California. Ascends to 3000 ft. in the Adiron- 

 dack*. Also in Europe and Asia. June-July. 



Pyrola secunda pumila Paine, Cat. Plants Oneida Co., N. Y. 135, is a low northern form, the scape 

 a'~4 high, 3-8-flowered, the leaves orbicular or broadly oval, 'A -i' long. 



2. MONESES Salisb.; S. F. Gray, Arr. Brit. Plants, 2: 403. 1821. 



A low perennial glabrous herb, with a decumbent leafy base, petioled evergreen crenu- 

 late leaves, opposite, or verticillate in 3's, and a solitary drooping white or pink flower at 

 the summit of a slender scape. Calyx 4-5-parted, persistent. Petals 4-5, spreading, 

 broadly ovate or orbicular, sessile. Stamens 8 or 10, similar to those of Pyrola. Disk 

 obsolete. Ovary globose, 4-5-celled; style straight, club-shaped at the summit; stigma 

 4~5-lobed; ovules very numerous in each cavity. Capsule subglobose, 4~5-lobed, 4-5-celled, 

 loculicidally 4~5-valved from the summit, the valves glabrous on the margins. Seeds 

 numerous, minute, the testa reticulated, produced at each end. [Greek, single-delight, from 

 the single flower.] 



A monotypic genus of the cooler parts of the northern hemisphere. 



