50 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



difolia and P. media, which makes the stigma look like a hat with 

 a projecting brim on the top of the style. In the fruit especially, the 

 shortness of the style is conspicuous, as it does not elongate after 

 flowering, as in the two preceding species. 



Lesser Winter-green. 



French, Pyrole a Style Court. German, Kleines Wintergrun. 



SPECIES IV.— PYRO LA SECUNDA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCXCIX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLV. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1708. 



Leaves not confined to a terminal rosette, rather thin, oval, 

 attenuated hoth towards the base and apex, acute, serrulate or 

 crenate-serrulate. Flowers horizontal, secund, in a short uni- 

 lateral raceme at the termination of the scape. Calyx-segments 

 ovate-oval, obtuse, denticulate. Petals concave, connivent, white 

 tinged with green. Stamens incurved, not bent upwards. Style 

 not bent down, exceeding the stamens and the petals, straight ; 

 stigma large, peltate, with 5 blunt erect tubercles, but destitute 

 of a ring projecting laterally below the tubercles. Capsule droop- 

 ing ; style longer than the capsule. 



On ledges of rocks and in woods in mountainous districts. It 

 occurs at Walton Craigs, near Keswick, Cumberland ; Sedburgh 

 and Teesdale, Yorkshire ; Yeveringbcll, Dumfriesshire, and in 

 Perth, Forfar, Ross, Aberdeen, Moray, Banff, and Ross, Argyle, 

 and Inverness ; co. Dcrry, Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stem more leafy than in any of the preceding species, with the 

 leaves extending a considerable distance below the terminal rosette, 

 and between the leaves often furnished with scales resembling empty 

 bracts. Leaves f to 1^ inch long, thin in texture, and distinctly 

 serrated, with the stalk generally shorter than the lamina. Scape 

 3 to 6 inches high, the raceme occupying about a third part of it. 

 Flowers somewhat bell-shaped, with the calyx-segments much 

 shorter in proportion to the petals than in any of the preceding 

 species. Anthers slightly exserted, and style distinctly so ; the 

 stigma resembles that of P. minor, but the style lengthens con- 

 siderably after flowering. 



