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linear, minutely toothed, revolute ; flower-stalks covered with 

 glandular hairs ; flowers in terminal tufts, lilac. — Sow of Athol, 

 Perthshire ; very rare. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



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

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

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

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

 Daboec, an Irish saint.) 



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

 only species, a small shrub with ovate, revolute leaves, bright green 

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

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

 rare. — Fl. August. Perennial. 



9. P^rola (Winter-green). — Herbaceous plants with slender, 

 creeping rhizomes; short, almost woody, unbranched stems; 

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

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

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

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

 resemblance in their leaves.) 



1. P. rotundifolia (Round-leaved Winter-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 Winter-green). — Flowers less ex- 

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

 erect, nearly 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. — 

 Woods and heaths ; more common in the north. — Fl. June — 

 August. Perennial. 



4. P. secunda (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. Moneses (Single-flowered Winter-green). — Differing from 

 Pyrola in having a solitary flower with slightly united, spreading 

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

 monos, alone, from its solitary flowers.) 



