PYROLA FAMILY. Pyrolaceas, 



PYEOLA FAMILY. Pyrolacece. 



Formerly classed as a suborder under the Heath Fam- 

 ily. Generally evergreen perennials with perfect, nearly 

 regular flowers, the corolla very deepl}' 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, as 

 well as smaller butterflies. 



A familiar and beautiful evergreen plant 

 PHncfe^'TpMne ^^ *^^® deep woods, generally found under 

 Chimaphila pines, spruces, or hemlocks. The dark 

 umbellata green leaves are thick and shining, sharplj- 



Flesh or toothed along the upper half of the edge 



cream color ^^j indistinctlv toothed on the lower half: 

 June-July 



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 ^ very similar species remarkable for 



Wintergreen its green-white-marked leaves. The leaves 

 Chimaphila instead of being broad and blunt near the 

 maculata ^-p j-j,^ ^^i^^e of C. umbellata, taper grad- 



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

 and strongly marked with 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 x^^M<^, winter, and tpiX^ao, to love. 

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