PYROLA FAMILY. Pyrolaceae. 



PYROLA FAMILY. Pyrolacece. 



Formerly classed as a suborder under the Heath Fam- 

 ily. Generally evergreen perennials with perfect, nearly 

 regular flowers, the corolla very deeply five-parted, or 

 five-petaled ; twice as many stamens as the divisions of 

 the corolla ; the style short, and the stigma five-lobed. 

 Fruit a capsule. Visited by numerous flies and bees, a& 

 well as smaller butterflies. 



A familiar and beautiful evergreen plant 



of the deep woods generally found under 

 Chimaphila pines, spruces, or hemlocks. The dark 

 umbellata green leaves are thick and shining, sharply 



Flesh or toothed along the upper half of the edge 



Yun^ul^ and indistinctlv toothed on the lower half; 



they are blunt or abruptly dull-pointed at 

 the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, short-stemmed, and 

 arranged in circles about the buff-brown plant-stem. 

 The flowers are dainty pale pinkish or waxy cream 

 color ; the corolla has five blunt lobes which turn back- 

 ward as the flower matures, and at the base,' next to the 

 dome-shaped green ovary, is a circle of pale magenta ; 

 the ten short stamens have five double madder purple 

 anthers ; the style is remarkably short scarcely notice- 

 able, and the gummy stigma is nearly flat and five- 

 scalloped. The flowers are delicately scented. Mostly 

 fertilized through the agency of the bees of the genera 

 Halictus and Andrena, and the numerous small flies 

 common in woodlands ; the stigma is very sticky and 

 broad. Seed-pod a globular brown capsule. 6-12 inches 

 high. In dry woods, from Me. , south to Ga., west to Cal. 

 Spotted A- very similar species remarkable for 



Wintergreen its green- white-marked leaves. The leaves 

 Chimaphila instead of being broad and blunt near the 

 maculata tip like those of 0. umbellata, taper grad- 



ually to a point ; they are remotely toothed, dark green, 

 and strongly marked w4th white-green in the region of 

 the ribs. They are about two inches long. 3-9 inches 

 high. Somewhat common in N. Y., and in the White 

 Mountains, extending westward only as far as Minn. The 

 name, from Rei^cc, winter, and cptJidoo, to love. 

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