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A . alpina, Spreng. ; raceme 2-6-flowered, flowers 

 greenish-white, leaves thin, deciduous, crenate, fruit 

 black; Alps, Jura, Carpathians, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 

 A. uva-ursi, Spreng. ; raceme 6- 10- flowered, flowers 

 pink, leaves leathery, thick, entire, fruit red ; Alps, Jura, 

 Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 



8. ANDROMEDA, L. 



Stem shrubby ; flowers in terminal umbels ; sepals 4 ; 

 corolla 5-lobed; stamens 10, anthers awned; fruit a 

 5-valved capsule. Alpine. 



A. polifolia, L. ; flowers drooping, purplish, with 

 revolute lobes, leaves elliptic-lanceolate, leathery, glau- 

 cous, with revolute margins ; bogs ; Switzerland, Jura, 

 Vosges, Tirol, Pyrenees. 



9. PYROLA, L. 



Flowers solitary or in racemes, usually white, nodding; 

 sepals 5; petals 5, nearly or quite distinct ; stamens 10; 

 leaves shining, evergreen. 



A. Petals quite distinct; flowers in racemes, small, 

 nearly white ; Winter-Green : P. minor, L. ; calyx-lobes 

 triangular-oval, style shorter than the ovary, leaves 

 orbicular-cordate, slightly crenate; woods; Alps, Jura, 

 Vosges, Pyrenees, frequent. P. media, Sw. ; calyx-lobes 

 oval-lanceolate, style deflexed, leaf-stalk broadly winged ; 

 woods; South- Western Switzerland, Tirol, Piedmont, 

 Dauphiny, rare. P. rotundifolia, L. ; calyx-lobes lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, raceme many-flowered, leaves orbicular- 

 obovate, style long, deflexed ; moist woods ; Switzerland, 

 Jura, Pyrenees, rare. P. chlorantha, Sw. ; resembling 



