3- Pyrola umbellata. Umbellated Pyrola. 
This grows commonly to the height of five or fix 
inches, generally fet pretty thick with leaves, which 
are wedge-fhaped or narrowed towards the bafe, 
fmooth, of a Alining green, and fharply fawed on 
their edges. The flowers terminate the flalks on a 
pretty long divided footflalk, in a kind of little um- 
bel, which is nodding at firfh but becomes eredt, fup- 
porting five or fix round, pentagonal, depreffed cap- 
iules, filed with final! feeds. 
A decodhon or infufion of this, has been ufed 
with confiderable fuccefs as a fubftitute for the Peru- 
vian bark. The roots are faid to give eale in the 
tooth ach. This kind is called by the Indians Phip- 
fefawa, 
P Y R U S. 
The PEAR-TREE. 
Clafs 12. Order 4. Icofandria Pentagynia* 
T^HE Empalement is of one leaf, concave, half five-cleft, and 
-*• permanent* the fegments fpreading. 
The Corolla has five roundifh, concave, large petals, inferted 
in the empalement. 
The Filaments are twenty, awl-ihaped, fihorter than the corolla, 
and inferted in the empalement. The Anthers fimple. 
The Germen is beneath. 1 he Styles five, thread- form, the 
length of the ftamina. The Stigmas fimple. 
The Seed-vejjel a pome , roundiik umbilicated and flefliy, with 
five membranaceous cells. 
The Seeds a few, oblong, obtufe, lharpened at the bafe, con- 
vex on one fide and plane on the other. 
To this Genus belongs 
MALUS, 
