20^ DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
tacle simple. Seeds very numerous and 
minute^ samaroid. ) — JV* utt. 
rotundifoiia. 1, P. leaves roundisli, or dilated oval, obsoletely 
crenulate, partly coriaceous and lucid, petiole 
conspicuously marginated, about the length of | 
the lamina; scape many-flowered; bractes ovate, I 
acute; calix 5-parted, segments oblong-ovate, 
reflected at the points ; petals longer than the 
stamina. — 
Icon. FI. Dan. 110. Engl. Bot. 213. 
Round-leaved Winter-green. 
The largest species of this genus, about eight or ten inches 
high. A very pretty plant, with white fragrant flowers. In 
shady woods of rich loose soil, among decayed leaves, every 
where very common. Perennial. June, July. 
eiiiptica. P. leaves membranaceous, oblong-oval and ob- 
tuse, or elliptic-ovate, plicately serrulate and 
acute, lamina always much longer than the pe- 
tiole ; scape naked or furnished with a single 
scale; bractes linear and subulate; calix 5-tootb« 
ed, points subulate, reflected. — 
Pyrola eiiiptica, Nutt. 
This species! have long observed in this neighbourhood. It 
is very like the common rotundifoiia, but discrepant enough, 
and sufficiently constant in its character, to constitute a per- 
manent species. Grows with the preceding. Perennial. June, 
July. 
c^iorantha. 3. P. stamens sub-asceudcnt, pistil declined, style 
somewhat thick, the divisions of the calix af- 
fixed ; scape nearly naked, racemes many-flow- 
ered. — Swart%. Scape generally convolute ; 
leaves small, thick, subcoriaceous, orbicular, 
generally emarginate at the apex ; petioles sim- 
ple, pistil declined. — Bart. Prod. FI. Ph. p. 50. 
P. chlorantha, Swartz, in Stockholm Trans. 1810, 
p. 190. t. 5. 
