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One-flowered Pyrola. Moneses grandijiaixt. 



Found usually iu pine woods, by shaded brooks, in June. 



The small, round, and pale stalk I'uns along the earth just under 

 its surface, and terminates in a rosette of a few leaves, loosely lying 

 upon the ground, and a flower stem from 2 to 4 inches high. 



The round leaf is very smooth underneath, while the ribs and veins 

 are prominent above ; the margin is finely notched, and the texture is 

 thin. In color a rich, cool green. 



The 5-pointed petals of the flower are a shallow shell-shape ; their 

 margins curl under somewhat, their texture is thin and waxen, and 

 their surface is smooth to the touch ; color, white, inclined to ivory. 

 The 10 white stamens have curious 2-horned, dull-yellow tips, — they lie 

 back, with a quick curve, in the hollows of the petals ; the bright green 

 pistil bends, or curves downward ; the flat 5-parted calyx is very small. 

 The single flower is set on the crook-like tip of the pale-green flower- 

 stem, which bears one or two tiny pale bracts. 



This boldly curved crook of the flower-stem is completely straight- 

 ened when the petals fall, — the seed-box is held upright. Like most of 

 its tribe this is a gregarious little jslant, and grows in plantations. 



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