^75 lo. PYllOLA SECUXDA. [Cj.. X. 



CLASS X. 



15. 



Pyrola secunda, L. 



Birnbaumchcnkraut, Einseitiges Wintergrun, Wald-mangold, 

 — Frencli, Pi/role un'ilaterale. — Engl. Serrated Whiter- 

 green. — Swed. Hult-vintergr'6n. 



This plant grows in moist shady spots in our pine forests, 

 during June and July, not singly, but in numbers. The root 

 is woody, yellowish, creeping ; it strikes fibres here and there 

 into the soil below, and pushes out an ascending stem, about 

 a small span's length, simple, even, roundish, about the thick- 

 ness of a pack-thread. Over the whole of the stem, small, 

 green, lanceolate, and stalkless bracteas are found scattered. 

 The leaf-stalks also stand sparse and open, are even, and about 

 half an inch long. The leaves are ovate, oblong, unequal at 

 the base, serrated on the margin, having a herbaceous spine 

 at the point, even on both surfaces, full of nerves and veins, 

 and of a beautiful light-brown colour. The end of the shoot is 

 void of leaves, but the stipulee appear as bracteae. The flowers 

 stand in a one-sided cluster, are of a greenish-white colour, 

 and consist of a small quinque-partite calyx, membranaceous on 

 the margin, somewhat indented, and of five oblong, some- 

 what concave petals. The red filaments, ten in number, sur- 

 round the germen, and are at first bent doubly, whence the 

 bilocular anthera? have their pores turned downwards. Af- 

 terwards the filaments become erect, and the antherae then 

 stand with their pores turned upwards. The germen has 

 five furrows ; the pistillum is simple, and stands perpendicu- 

 lar ; the stigma is shield-shaped and fivc-lobed. The cap- 

 sule is superior and consists of five loculi, which burst at th(^ 



