PYROLA. 209 
cor. campanulate.—E. B. 598.—St. woody, 6—8 in. high, strag- 
gling. L. like those of box, dark green above. _ Fl. pink, 4-cleft. 
Berries red.— Mountain heaths. Sh. VI. VII. Red Whortleberry. 
Cowberry. 
4. V. Oxycoccos (L.); 1. ovate entire persistent with revolute 
margins glaucous beneath, fl. terminal on long simple peduncles, 
- cor. rotate with reflexed segments.—E. B. 319. Oxycoccus pa- 
lustris DC.—St. procumbent, filiform, rooting. L. small. Fi. 
bright rose-colour. Cor. deeply divided, remarkably reflexed. 
Berries crimson.— Wet bogs. Sh. VI. VII. Cranberry. 
[V. macrocarpum (Ait.); 1. oblong with flat margins, fl. lateral 
on long simple peduncles. Loughton Bog, Mould, Flintshire. 
It has probably been sown there. | 
Tribe IV. Pyrolee. 
10. Pyroxa Linn. 
1. P. rotundifolia (L.); 1. nearly round entire or slightly cre- 
nate, fl. racemose, cal.-segments lanceolate acute, style bent down 
and curved upwards at the end longer than the ascending stam., 
stigma annular with 5 erect blunt points.—E. B. 213.—F1. white, 
rather numerous, expanded. Style longer than the petals. Stam. 
all turned upwards. L. numerous.—§. bracteata (H. and A.); 1. 
smaller, st. with bracts throughout, cal.-segments shorter and 
broader.—Damp bushy places and reedy marshes. 8. Sand-hills 
near Lytham, Lancashire. P. VIII. E. 8. 
2. P. media (Sw.); 1. nearly round or roundish-oval slightly 
crenate, fl. racemose, cal.-segments ovate acute, stam. regularly 
infleced shorter than the nearly straight declining style, stigma 
annular with 5 erect points.—E. B. 1945.—F. milk-white, tinged 
with pink, rather numerous, less expanded than in the preceding. 
Style projecting a little beyond the corolla, always nearly straight. 
Stam. all regularly incurved round the germen. L. numerous. 
—Woods in the north. P. VII. VIII. 
3. P. minor (L.); 1. roundish-oval crenate, fl. racemose, cal.- 
segments ovate-triangular acute, stam. regularly beeen equal- 
ling the straight style, stigma without a ring 5-lobed pointless. 
—E. B, 2543 and 158 (bad). St. 13. 12.—Fl. pale pmk, nume- 
rous, on very short pedicels, nearly closed. Style very short, | 
included. Stam. all equally inflexed. L. numerous.—Mossy 
woods and thickets. P. VII. 
4, P. secunda (L.); 1. ovate acute serrated, fl. in a secund ra- 
ceme, cal.-segments triangular rounded notched, stam. regularly 
ieurved equalling the long straight style, stigma 5-lobed without 
