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partitions. Seeds very numerous, covering the receptacles, 

 minute, oval, each in a membranous tunic, elongated at 

 both ends. 

 Roots creeping, perennial. Stems herbaceous, or somewhat 

 woody, short, depressed, angular, leafy; sometimes 

 branched. Leaves simple, undivided, stalked, smooth, 

 veiny, evergreen. Fl. one, or most frequently several, on 

 a solitary, upright, tall, angular stalk, white or reddish, 

 vei-y elegant, and often highly fragrant. One American 

 species has no leaves. See Rees's Cyclop, v. 29. The 

 whole genus is astringent and tonic. 



1. P. rotundifol'ia. Round-leaved Winter-green. 



Stamens ascending. Style twice as long, declining and re- 

 curved. Cluster many-flowered. Calyx as long as the 

 stamens. 



P. rotundifolia. Linn. Sp. PL 567. fVilld. v. 2. 621 . Fl. Br. 444. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 3. t.2\3. Hook. Lond. t. 26, Scot. 1 27. Lam.f. 1 . 



P. rotundifolia major. Bauh. Pin. 191. Moris, v. 3. 504. sect. 12. 

 t. 10./. 1. 



P. n. 1010. Hall. Hist. v. 1.431. 



Pyrola. Raii Syn. 263. Riv.Pe7itap.Irr.t.l36.f.2. Ger. Em. 

 408./. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 33 1 . f. Camer. Epif. 723. f. Bauh. 

 Hist. V. 3. p. 2. 535./. Dalech. Hist. 841./ 2. 



P. vulgatior. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 116./ Moris, sect. 12. t. 10./ 1, 

 excluding the fruit. 



Limonium. Fuchs. Hist. 467. f. 



L.sylvestre. Trag. Hist. 707. f. ^^<^ vJ..',>//A.lLil 



In bushy places, and in dry heathy woods, but rare, - ' 



About Halifax, Yorkshire, in several places. Ray. On a common 

 at Bradwell, near Gorlestone, Suffolk. Mr. Lily fVigg. In a 

 wood at Middleton, Suffolk J Mr. Davy. Hooker. In dry woods 

 and sometimes upon heaths, in the Highlands of Scotland. 

 Lightf., though rare in the Lowlands, according to Mr. D. Don. 

 Hook. Scot. This species is found on the opposite coast of Hol- 

 land, in situations exactly similar to that where it once grew at 

 Bradwell, but where it is no longer to be seen. 



Perennial. July, August. 



The largest of its genus, though variable in size. Leaves 4 or 5, 

 for the most part nearly orbicular, an inch broad, or more, very 

 obscurely, as well as bluntly, notched, a little decurrent into the 

 long, slightly bordered footstalks ; the upper surface especially 

 very smooth and shining, finely reticulated with veins. Flower- 

 stalk a span high, triangular, a little twisted, bearing a few 

 scattered scaly bracteas, and terminating in an oblong, erect, 

 simple cluster, of numerous, rather drooping, pure white, fragrant 



