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LJI. MONOTBOPAC&ffi. 
\_Pyrola. 
down curved upwards at the extremity, much longer than the 
ascending stamens — a. scape with a few scattered scaly brac- 
teas. E. B. t. 213. — 8. bracteata; leaves smaller, scape scaly 
throughout its whole length. P. maritima Ken. in Phytol , ii. 
p. 727. 
Moist woods and bushy places, rare. Bradwell, Theberton, and 
Middleton, Suffolk; Larlingford, Norfolk; Hawthorn Dean and in 
Castle- Eden Dean, Durham; near Helmsley and Hackness, York- 
shire; Allerton Dean, Northumberland. Guernsey, among tall reeds 
near the sea. Gannachy Wood, Glenclova, and Sidlaw Hills, For- 
farshire; Auchindenny woods near Edinburgh. — 0. Sands near Ly- 
tham, Lancashire: Mr. Kenyon. 2/ . 7 — 9. — Thelargestof the Pyrolce , 
with white, spreadingjfotcers .• well distinguished by the direction and 
relative length of its stamens and style. The latter is more than 
twice as long as the fully formed capsule, and is singularly curved. 
Stigma with 5 erect points. 
3. P. media Swartz (intermediate TP.) ; leaves ovato-rotundate 
crenate, stamens erect much shorter than the straight or slightly 
decurved style, stigma with 5 erect points. E. B. t. 1945. 
Woods, principally in the north ; Keswick, Cumberland; Rugley 
wood, Northumberland; Durham; York; Worcestershire; St. 
Leonard’s Forest, Sussex ; also said to grow in Oxford, Bucks, 
Warwick, and Lancashire. Not very general in Scotland. County 
of Antrim, &c., Ireland. If.. 7, 8. — Style protruded beyond the 
flower, nearly straight. 
4. P. minor L. (lesser Winter-green ) ; leaves ovate-rotundate 
crenate, stamens erect as long as the very short straight style 
which is included within the flower, stigma large with 5 diver- 
gent rays. E. B. t. 158 (not good) ; Hook, in FI. Land. t. 154. 
P. rosea E. B. t. 2543. 
Woods in the north of England and Scotland ; frequent in the 
Western Highlands and Hebrides, 7J-. 6,7. — Smaller than the last, 
essentially distinguished from it, and at once characterised by the 
shortness of its style and large radiated stigma, quite included within 
the concave corolla. 
Ord. LII. MON OTROPACEiE Nutt. 
Cal. 5-partite or 5-sepaled, persistent. Cor. regular, gamo- 
petalous, ovate or campanulate, or wanting. Stamens 8 — 10, 
sometimes alternating with as many recurved glands ; anthers 
sometimes opening transversely, sometimes parallel-celled with 
bristles at the base, never opening by pores at the base or apex. 
Ovary without a conspicuous entire hypogynous disk, 4 — 5- 
celled, many-seeded. Style single. Stigma discoid, somewhat 
margined. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved, loculicidal. Seeds nu- 
merous, chaffy or winged at one end. Embryo minute, in the 
