Pyrolaceae 207 



PYROLACE^E 



Winter green Family 



Low, mostly evergreen perennials with 

 branched rootstocks and petioled leaves ; 

 flowers nearly regular, white or pink; calyx 

 4-5-lobed; corolla deeply 4-5 -parted or of 

 5 petals; stamens twice as many as the 

 divisions of the corolla, anthers opening 

 by pores or short slits; stigma 5-lobed. 



Flowers racemose ; leaves basal. Pyrola. 



Flowers solitary or corymbose; leaves opposite or 



whorled. 

 Stem leafy at base; flower solitary; style long. 



Moneses. 



Stem horizontal; branches erect, leafy; style short. 



Chimaphila. 



Stems 4-10 inches high, 3-10 

 chlorantha flowered. Leaves all basal, small, 

 Sw. orbicular or broadly oval, mostly 



Greenish- obtuse at both ends, sometimes 

 flowered narrow ed at the base, thick, 



Wintergreen. 



leathery, dull, obscurely crenu- 

 late or entire, J-i inch long, shorter than 

 or equalling the petioles. Flowers greenish- 



