WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK -195 



In bogs and swamps, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to Vermont, 

 central New York, Michigan. Colorado and California. Considered b}^ 

 some botanists as identical with P y r o 1 a i n c a r n a t a Fischer, of 

 northern Asia. Flowering in June and July. Rather abundant in open 

 sphagnum bogs of Herkimer, Oneida, Oswego, Madison and Onondaga 

 counties, also in Bergen swamp, Genesee county, and doubtless in other 

 similar bogs throughout western and northern New York. 



Shinleaf 



Pyrohi elliptic a Nut tall 



Plate IS lb 



Leaves broadly oval or elliptical, not evergreen, rather tlnn and dark 

 green, blunt, rounded or narrowed at the base, the margins wav\- or 

 plicate-crenulate with very low teeth; i| to 4 inches long, usuallv longer 

 than the petioles, all basal. Flowers whitish, nodding, one-half to two- 

 thirds of an inch broad, fragrant, racemose on scapes or stalks, 5 to 10 

 inches high; calyx lobes five, ovate-triangular, sharp pointed; petals five, 

 blunt, flat, about four times as long as the calyx lobes; stamens ten, 

 declined, style also declined, its apex curved upward. Fruit capsule 

 five-lobed, five-celled, the valves cobwebby on the margins wlien splitting 

 open, about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. 



In rich soil of rather dry woods and clearings. Nova Scotia to British 

 Columbia, south to Maryland, Illinois, Iowa and in the Rocky mountains 

 to New Mexico. Our commonest species of Pyrola. P'lowering from the 

 latter part of June to August. 



Round-leaved American Wintergreen 



Pyrola (iincricdiKi Sweet 



Figure XX 



Flowering scape 6 to 20 inches high with five to twenty flowers in a 

 terminal raceme, the flowers in the axils of small bracts. Leaves basal, 

 orbicular or oval, spreading, blunt, thick in texture, evergreen and shining 

 above, the margins crenulate, narrowed, rounded or slightly heart-shaped 



