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other, that it will only be necessary to describe one species. The name of Pyrola is said to be derived from 
Pyrus, a pear, from some fancied resemblance between the leaves of these plants and those of the pear-tree. 
1. — THE ROUND-LEAVED WINTER-GREEN. (Pyrola rotundifolia, Lin.) 
Engravings. —EDg. Bot., t. 213; 2nd ed., t. 581; and our fig. 8, Stamens ascending. Style twice as long, declining and recurved, 
in PI. 44. Cluster many-flowered. Calyx as long as the stamens. ( Lindley.) 
Specific Character. —Leaves obovate, rounded, slightly crenelled. 
Description, &c. —This very pretty little plant is seldom found wild in Great Britain except in the 
mountainous woods of the north. It is the largest of the genus. It is a perennial, and flowers in July and 
August. P. media , and P. minor are probably only varieties of this species. 
THE SERRATED WINTER-GREEN. (P. secunda, Lin.) 
This is a very distinct species, with greenish-white flowers, which are produced only on one side of the 
somewhat procumbent and straggling stem. It is only found in pine woods in the alpine districts of Scotland, 
and it flowers in July. 
THE SINGLE-FLOWERED WINTER-GREEN. (P. uniflora, Lin.) 
This is also a very distinct species, as the flowers are produced singly, instead of being in clusters. They 
are also very fragrant, and though white, they differ from those of the other species in being delicately veined 
with pink. The plant is a perennial, and it flowers in July. 
GENUS II. 
THE BIRD’S-NEST. (Monotropa, Lin.) 
Lin. Syst. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Sepals four or five, coloured. Petals four or valves, many-seeded. Herbaceous parasitical plants, with leafless 
five, slightly cohering by the base. Stamens eight or ten. Style scaly stems. {Lindley.) 
simple, cylindrical. Capsule with four or five cells, and four or five 
Description, &c. —There is only one British species in this genus. The name of Monotropa is derived 
from two Greek words signifying one turn, from the flowers all pointing one way. 
1.—THE YELLOW BIRD'S-NEST. (Monotropa Hypopitys, Lin.) 
Engravings. —Eng. Bot., t. 69 ; 2nd ed., t. 580; and our fig. 9, in PI. 44. 
Specific Character.— Flowers in a drooping cluster ; lateral ones with eight stamens ; terminal one with ten. (Smith.) 
Description, &c. —This very curious plant vegetates only on the roots of beech and pine trees. It is a 
perennial, and produces its raceme of dingy yellow flowers in June and July. These flowers, when they first 
expand, droop on one side, but they afterwards become erect. When dry, they acquire a faint smell, some¬ 
what resembling that of the common primrose. 
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