Localities. — In mossy woods and thickets, in mountainous situations.- 
Oxfordshire ; Scrubby Copse, Mungewell. Woods between Nettlebed and 
Henley. Among moss in a wood about a mile and a half from Henley on the 
road to High Wycombe. In Shireborn Wood; and Stokenchurch Woods. — 
Beds. Whipsnade, and woods near Luton. — Cumberl. Dunmallet, foot of the 
Avenue fronting Ullswater. Banks of the Irthing, below the cascade on the 
moors above G il Island ; by the Eden in Nunnery Walks. — Durham ; In Gib- 
side Woods near the Friar-gate; also near the Swalvvell-gate ; and on Teesdale 
Forest. In Cocken Woods. In Arngill, Cow-close-gill, and Hyndon-gills, 
which form the Gaunless; also in Skull Wood near South Hamsteiley. — Woods 
in Gloucestershire. — Northumbl Near Prudhoe Castle; at Wellington House, 
and at Roadely; also in East Common Wood near Hexham. In a fir planta- 
tion at Catcherside, four miles W. of Wallington. In Willymoteswick Dene; 
and in Callas Wood near Alnwick. — In Notts. — Shropsh. White ClifFe Coppice 
near Ludlow. — Worcestersh. Abberley. Shrawley Wood. — Yorksh. Near Hali- 
fax ; Raydale Wood near Cave End, Wensleydale ; Tennant's Wood near 
Kilnsay ; Haslewood ; nearClapham; Hackness Woods ; Hovingham Woods 
near Malton ; Aske Wood near Richmond; and near Rotherham. — WAEF.S. 
Anglesey ; In Lligwy Wood. — In many places in SCOTLAN D & 1RELAN D. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July. 
Root creeping. Stem short, leafy, mostly simple. Leaves 
roundish egg-shaped, crenated, smooth and shining, stalked. Pe- 
duncle ( flower stalk) from 6 to 8 inches high, with 4 angles, one 
of which is smaller than the rest, seldom spiral, or but slightly so. 
Flowers in a long, slender, sometimes lax or interrupted cluster, 
drooping in every direction, each on a short pedicel, with a small 
spear-shaped bractea at its base. Segments of the Calyx short, 
broad, and pointed. Petals pale pink or rose-coloured, orbicular, 
converging. Stamens all equally inclined round the capsule (see 
fig. 3). Filaments white. Anthers nearly terminal, dilated and. 
yellowish upward, with 2 large pores. Style cylindrical, straight, 
very short. Stigma large, with 5 radiating lobes. Capsule rounded, 
depressed. 
Distinguished by its short, straight style, and large radiated 
stigma, which is quite included within the concave corolla. 
It is observed by Dr. Johnston, in his interesting Flora of Berwick-upon- 
Tweed, that the seeds of the Pyrolcc lie imbedded in a thick cottony material, 
consisting of short erect fibres, arranged parallel and close to one another. When 
magnified, these fibres are nearly pellucid, linear-oblong, and membranous, not 
unlike the plants of the parasitical genus Erineum. 
The plant figured was taken up in Arniston Woods near Edinburgh, July 18, 
1836, by II. BiDWEt.t., Esq. of Albrighton, Salop; to whose kindness L am in- 
debted both for the drawing and for the specimen from which it was made. 
The Natural Order Pyrola'ceas is composed of dicotyledonous 
plants, which are mostly herbaceous, rarely shrubby. Their leaves 
are simple, often wanting. Their calyx is inferior, 5-leaved, or 
deeply 5-cleft, permanent. The corolla is monopetalous (in Pyrola 
pentapetalous ?), inferior, regular, deciduous, 4- or 5-toothed, and 
imbricated in the bud. The stamens are hypogynous, twice as 
numerous as the divisions of the corolla; their anthers 2-celled, 
opening by fissures or pores, with or without appendages. The 
ovary is superior, 4- or 5-ce!led, many-seeded, with a hypogynous 
disk; and a single style, which is either straight or declinate, with 
a simple stigma. The fruit is capsular, 4- or 5-celled, dehiscent, 
with central placentas. The seeds are indefinate, and very minute, 
with a large, loose, reticulated testa; and a minute, inverted em- 
bryo, at the extremity of a fleshy albumen. 
