PYROLA FAMILY. Pyrolaceae. 



One-flowered A Very Sma11 plant ' bearin a single 

 Pyroia blossom, somewhat like that of the com- 



Moneses mon Shinleaf . The leaves are thin, deep 



uni flora green, shining, round or nearly so, with 



Ivory white rather fine indistinct teeth, and flat- 

 June-August 



stalked. The five petals of the cream- 

 colored or ivory white flower are a bit pointed ; the ten 

 white stamens have two-pointed dull yellow anthers, 

 and the long green pistil bends downward ; not far be- 

 low the flower on the stem is a tiny bract or minute 

 leaflet. 2-5 inches high. In pine woods usually near 

 brooks. From Me., south to R. I. and Pa., and west to 

 Mich, and Ore. Also in the Rocky Mountains. South 

 to Col. Flowers with the petals crinkly-edged. 

 Small Pyroia A northern woodland plant with ovate 

 Pyroia secunda pointed deep green leaves, rather round- 

 Greenish white toothed, and long-stemmed ; the leaves 



circled near the base of the plant-stem. 

 The leaf-stalks are also somewhat flat and troughed. The 

 flower-stalk is tall, bracted or remotely set with minute 

 leaflets, and bears a one-sided row of small greenish 

 white flowers which finally assume a drooping position ; 

 the corolla is bell-shaped and five-lobed ; the pistil is 

 extremely prominent. The slender flow^er-stalk is often 

 bent sideways. 3-9 inches high. In woodlands, from 

 Me., south to Pa., and west to Minn. Found on the 

 slopes of the White and Adirondack Mountains. The 

 var. puinila is a tiny form 2-4 inches high, with rounded 

 leaves, and but 3-8 flowers. Vt. (Bristol, Sutton, New- 

 ark, and Fairhaven), Me., and N. H., but not common, 

 and west to Mich., on the shores of Lake Superior. 

 Blooms from July- August. 



Pyroia This is a small-leaved species with dainty 



chlorantha drooping flowers, and a stem of very mod- 

 Greenish white erate height without bracts or minute 

 June-July leaflets, or at least possessing but one. 

 The leaves are dull olive green, obscurely scalloped- 

 edged, rather round, and thicker than those of the com- 

 mon Pyroia (Shinleaf). The nodding, greenish white 

 flowers have obtuse, elliptical, convergent petals They 



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