258 DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Pyrola. 



P. secunda. Linn. Sp. PI. 567. mild. v. 2. 62 \. Fl. Br. 445. 



Engl. Bot. V. 8. t. 517. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 5. 8. Hook. Scot. 



127. Fl. Dan. t. 402. 

 P. n. 1008. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 430. 



P. folio mucronato serrato. Bauh. Pin. 191. Rnii Syn. 363. 

 P. folio mucronato. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 138 /. 2. 

 P. folio serrato. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 536. f. 

 P. secunda tenerior. Clus. Pann. 505. t. 506. Hist. v. 2. 1 17./. 



Ger. Em. 408./. 

 Ambrosia inontana. Dalech. Hist. 1148. f. 



In mossy alpine woods. 



In Yorkshire. Ray. In many fir or birch woods in Scotland. 

 Lighlf. Hooker. Near Moffat. Rev. Dr. Walker. On the hill 

 of Dunnairn, in Darnway forest, near Brodie house. Mr. Brodie. 



Perennial. July. 



Stems branched and tufted, rather straggling. Leaves ovate, veiny, 

 finely and sharply serrated. Stalk a finger's length, bearing 

 several lanceolate bracteas, and a rather dense cluster of white, 

 fragrant, drooping^owers, all turned to one side. Segments of 

 the calyx triangular, minutely jagged, or downy, at the edges. 

 Pet. much longer, converging. Stam. all equally incurved ; 

 finally straight, when the pores of the anthers, at first directed 

 downward, become vertical. Style straight, longer than the 

 corolla. Stigma large, somewhat annular, externally convex, 

 with 5 large, radiating, originally channelled, lobes. Valves of 

 the capsule connected by a fine web. 



5. P. unijlora. Single-flowered Winter-green. 



Stalk single-flowered. Pores of the anthers contracted, 

 tubular. Stigma with five pointed rays. 



P. uniflora. Unn.Sp. PI. 568. fVilld. v. 2. 622. H.Br. 446. Engl. 



Bot. V. 3. t. 146. Hook. Scot. 127. Ft. Dan. t. 8. Ehrh. Phy- 



toph. 54. 

 P. n. 1011. Hall. Hist. V. 1.431. 

 P. flore singulari. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 139./. 1. 

 P. quarta minima. Clus. Pann. 508. t. 509. Hist. v. 2. 118./. Ger. 



Em. 408./ 

 P. minima alpina. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 536./. 



In alpine woods, by the sides of trickling rills. 



Gathered about the year 1783, by Mr. James Hoggan, in the 

 western isles of Harris and Bernera. Mr. Gotohed. In a fir 

 wood near Brodie house, by Forres. Mr. Brodie, and Mr. James 

 Hoy. 



Perennial. July. 



Root creeping, slender. Stews an inch or two long, reclining, 

 simple, densely leafy. Leaves ovate, or roundish, acute, sharply 

 ;serrated, stalked, veiny, quite smooth like every other part. 



