HEATH FAMILY 3!! 



linear, minutely toothed, revolute ; floK'er-sialks co\-ercd witli 

 glandular hairs; fioioeis in termin.,1 tuhs, lilar. — Sow of Athol, 

 Pertlishire ; very rare. — Fl. June, Jul)-. Perennial. 



8. Dabohcia (.St, Daboec's Heath). — A small, evergreen shrub 

 with scattered leaves and drooping flowers in terminal, i-.sided, 

 loose, leafy racemes ; sepals 4 ; lurolla urceolate, 4-fid, deciduous ; 

 stamens 8 ; capsule 4-chambered, septicidal. (Named from St. 

 Daboec, an Irish saint.) 



I. D. cantdbrica (St. Daboec's Heath, Irish Menziesia). — The 

 only species, a small shrub with o\ ate, revolute leaves, bright green 

 and glossy above, white and downy beneatla ; and large, crimson, 

 or sometimes white, flowers. — Mountainous heaths in Connemara ; 

 rare. — Fl. August. Perennial. 



9. PvRor,A (U inter-green). — Herbaceous plants with slender, 

 creeping rhizomes; short, almost woody, unbranched stems; 

 simple, smooth, evergreen, broad, chiefly radical leaves ; flowers in 

 a bracteate raceme, droopuig to one side ; sepals 5, persistent ; 

 petals 5, free, incurved ; stamens 10 ; ceipsule 5-chambered, loculi- 

 cidal. (Name, a diminutive from Pynis, a pear, from a fancied 

 resemblance in their lea-\-es.) 



1. P. rotundifoha (Round-leaved ^^'inter-green). — Leaves entire 

 or slightly crenate, on long, slender stalks ; flowers numerous, pure 

 white in a long raceme ; style longer than the petals, bent down, 

 and, at the extremity, curved upwards.- Moist woods ; rare. — Fl. 

 July— September. Perennial. 



2. P. media (Intermediate VCmier-gxeen).— Flowers less ex- 

 panded than in the [jreceding, milk-white, tinged with pink ; style 

 erect, ncarlv straight, longer than the stamens, projecting beyond 

 the corolla. — Woods ; local. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



3. P. minor (Lesser Winter-green). — Flowers numerous, very 

 shortly stalked, globose, nearly closed, pale pink ; stamens as long 

 as the short style ; stigma large, included : within the flower. — 

 W'oods and heaths; more conmion in the north. — Fl. June — 

 August. Perennial. 



4. P. seciinda (One-sided 'Winter-green). — Flowers greenish- 

 white, all hanging to one side, nearly closed ; stamens as long as 

 the long, straight style, or nearly so ; stigma exserted. — Rocky 

 woods in the north ; rare. — Fl. July. Perennial. 



10. MoNi£SES (Single-flowered \\'inter-green). — Differing from 

 Pirola in having a solitary flower with sligljtly united, spreading 

 petals, and anthers prolonged into tubes. Name from the Greek 

 tnonos, alone, from its solitary flowers.) 



