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3- Pyrola umbellata. Ujnbellated Fyrola. 



This grows commonly to the height of five or fix 

 inches, generally let pretty thick with leaves, which 

 are wedge-fiiapcd or narroweil towards the bafc, 

 fmooth, of a Ihining green, and fiiarply fawed on 

 their edges. The flowers terminate the ftalks on a 

 pretty long divided footihilk, in a kind of little um- 

 bel, which is nodding at tirft but becomes ereft, fup- 

 porting five or fix round, pentagonal, dcpreffed cap- 

 lules, filled with fmall feeds. 



A decoftion (^r infufiou of this, has been ufed 

 with confidcrable fuccefs as a fubflitute. for the Peru- 

 vian bark. The roots are faid to give eafe in the 

 tooth ach. This kind is called by the Indians Fkip- 

 fejawa. 



P Y R U S. 



The P E A R - T R E E. 

 Clafs 12. Order 4. Icofcindrla Fentagynia, 



^T^HE Enipakment is of one leaf, concave, half five-cleft, and 

 permanent; the fegments fpreading. 



The Corolla has five roundiili, concave, large petals, inferted 

 in the empalement. 



The Filaments are twenty, awl-lliaped, lliorter than the corolla, 

 and inferted in the empalement. The Antherce fijnple. 



The Germen is beneath. 1 he St^ies five, thread- form, the 

 length of the ftamina. Tlie Scigmas fimple. 



I he Sccd-veJJel a pome, roundiili^ umbilicated and fielliy, with 

 five membranaceous cells. 



The Sseds a few, oblong, obtufe, fliarpcned at the bafe, con- 

 vex on one fide and plane on the other. 



To this Genus belongs 



MALUS. 



