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Pyrola {. L .). Winter-green. 
Pyrola rotundifolia (L.). Fig. 396. Broad-leaved Winter-green. 
Native. P. VII-IX. 
Wet hollows between the sandhills in L. 
b. maritima {Kenyon). 
Rare, but locally abundant. 
L. The sandhills between Crosby and Southport — in some 
places the ground is made white with their exquisite blooms. 
The creeping root often sends up three or four flowering stems. 
This plant may be grown in pots or in the garden, and then 
will soon lose the slight differences (the bracts on the stem) 
by which it is separated from the ordinary woodland form. 
Ic has not been found upon the Cheshire sandhills. 
MONOTROPEiE. 
Hypopithys (L.). 
H. multiflora (Scop.). Fig. 397. Yellow Birds Nest. Native. 
P. VII, VIII. 
( Monotropa hypopithys (L.).) 
L. Near the Landmark, at Formby (h.e.s.). Large valley in 
the sandhills at Birkdale (c.h.b.). Sandhill hollow, about 
50 yards W. of Hightown Railway Station (j.h.l.). 
Note. — This plant was supposed to be parasitic until Mr. Wilson and 
Mr. Rylands, of Warrington, proved that it was not. — (See Phytologist, 
vol. 1, 1843, pp. 43-341. The byssoid substance investing the root, 
previously mistaken for suckers, is shewn by Mr. Rylands to be a fungus. 
PLUMBAGINEiE. 
Statice (L.). Sea Lavender. 
S. Limonium (L.). Fig. 398. Great Sea Lavender. Native. P. 
VII, VIII. 
Muddy inlets and shores of the Mersey. Rare. 
L. Formerly at Garston (H.). 
C. Bromborough (H.). Shore opposite the Powder Maga- 
zines down to 1901. 
S. rariflora (Drej.). Fig. 399. Remote Flowered Sea Lavender 
Native. P. VII, VIII. 
Muddy shore of the Mersey. Very rare. 
{S. bahusiensis {Fries.).) 
C. 1875, Shore of R. Mersey, between Bromborough Pool 
and Eastham Ferry (r.b.) ; there in 1901. 
