202 DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



tacle simple. Seeds very numerous and 

 minute, samaroid.) — JSFutt. 



totundifoha. l. p. leaves roundish, or dilated oval, obsoletely 

 crenulate, partly coriaceous and lurid, petiole 

 conspicuously marginated, about the length of 

 the lamina; scape many -flowered; bractes ovate, 

 acute; calix 5-parted, segments ohlong-ovate, 

 reflected at the points; petals longer than the 

 stamina. — Nutt. 



Icon. Fl. Dan. 110. Engl. Bot. 213. 



Round-leaved Winter-green. 



The largest species of this genus, about eight or ten inches 

 high. A very pretty plant, with white fragrant flowers. In 

 shady woods of rich loose soil, among decayed leaves, every 

 where very common. Perennial. June, July. 



eiiiptica. 2. P. leaves membranaceous, oblong-oval and ob- 

 tuse, or elliptic-ovate, plicately serrulate and 

 acute, lamina always much longer than the pe- 

 tiole $ scapp naked or furnished with a single 

 scale ; 



ed, points subulate, 

 Pyrola eiiiptica, Nutt. 



bractes linear and subulate; calix 5-toofti- 

 , reflected. — Nutt. 



chlorantha. 



This species I have long observed in this neighbourhood. It 

 is very like the common rotundifolia, but discrepant enough, 

 and sufficiently constant in its character, to constitute a per- 

 manent species. Grows with the preceding. Perennial. June, 

 July. 



P. stamens sub-ascendent, pistil declined, style 

 somewhat thick, the divisions of the calix af- 

 fixed ; scape nearly naked, racemes many-flow- 

 ered. — Swartx. Scape generally convolute; 

 leaves small, thick, subcoriaceous, orbicular, 

 generally emarginate at the apex ; petioles sim- 

 ple, pistil declined. — Bart, Prod. Fl. Ph. p. 50. 

 . chlorantha, Swartz, in Stockholm Trans. 1810, 

 p. 190. t. 5. 



