DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Pyrola. 523 
A. uva ur'si. Stems trailing: leaves oblong, egg-shaped, very entire, 
slightly reticulated. 
(E. Bot. 714. E.)— Kniph. 9—EL Dan . 33— Blackw. 592. 1. 2. and 3— El. 
Lapp. 6. 3— Woodv. 70 — Light/. 11. c. d. at p. 216— J. B. i. a. 523 — 
Zanon. 178— Ger. 1230. 5 — Clus. i. 63. 2— Lob. Obs. 547. 1— Ger. Em. 
1416. 5—Park. 1457. 6. 
(Stems very long. Leaves stiff, rigid, smooth, their margins revolute. 
Flowers in a terminal, drooping cluster, rose-coloured. Berries small, 
red. E.) 
Red Bear-berry. (Red-Berried Trailing Arbutus. Gaelic: Bra - 
oileaga-nan-con. E.) Dry heaths and woods. East Common Wood, 
near Hexham. Isle of Mull, near to Y-Columb-Kill, growing plentifully 
for some miles together. Mr. Llwyd. (Common about Blair. Mr. Watt. 
Summit of Skiddaw. Mr. Woodward. Martindale Head, UUswater. 
Hutchinson. On Kinder Scout, near Hayfield, Derbyshire. Mr. L. 
Howard, in Bot. Guide. Cronkley Fell; Forcegarth Scar; and near 
Caldron Snout, Durham. Rev. J. Harriman, ditto. West side of the 
county of Durham. E.) S. May—June.* 
PY'ROLA.f Calyx with five divisions: Petals five: Caps. 
five-celled, opening at the angles: Seeds numerous, 
coated. 
P. rotundifo'lia. Stamens ascending : pistil declining: (cluster many- 
flowered: calyx as long as the stamens. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. — E. Bot. 213. E.)— Blackw. 594 — Riv. Pent. 137 — 
Matth. 982 — Fuchs. 467 — Trag. 707 — J. B. iii. 535 — Dod. 138 — Ger. 
Em. 408. 1— Ger. 330. 1 —Clus. ii. 116. 3— Lob. Obs. 157. 2 — H. Ox. xii. 
10. row 2. 1 — Park. 508 — Lonic. 186. 
(Style twice the length of the stamens. Trav. Leaves four or five, an inch 
broad or more, all springing from the root, neary circular, obtusely 
crenate, veined, on leaf-stalks. Blossoms white, in a terminal raceme, 
borne by a peduncle six to eight inches high. E.) 
Round-leaved Winter-green. Woods and groves in the north of 
England: in the south, rare. Hockfall Woods, near Grewelthorpe, 
Raydale Wood, near Carr-end. Wensley Dale, and Tennant’s Wood, 
near Kilnsav, Yorkshire. Curtis. Meadows at Gorlestone, Suffolk. Mr. 
Wigg. Woods of Duplin and Panmure, Angus-shire, and about Loch 
* The berries are insipid, pulpy, and mealy, (but afford excellent food for game.) The 
plant is much used in Sweden to dye an ash-colour, and to tan leather. Half a dram of 
the powdered leaves given every, or every other day, has been found useful in calculous 
cases. It was first used for this purpose at Montpelier, and afterwards by Dr. de Haen, 
at Vienna, who relates several cases, in which it proved of the greatest service. Its success 
in England has been uncertain. Sometimes the patients found no relief, but thought their 
complaints rather aggravated than alleviated ; whilst, in other calculous and nephritic cases, 
the symptoms have been almost entirely removed. Perhaps, upon the whole, we shall 
find it no better than other vegetable astringents; some of which have long been used by 
country people in such complaints, and with very great advantage : though hitherto un¬ 
noticed by regular practitioners. (It is a popular remedy in America, and has the sanc¬ 
tion of Dr. Barton in nephritic complaints. E.) Horses, cows, goats, and sheep refuse 
it. (The Coccus uva-ursi, which, with alum, affords a crimson dye, is now neglected. E.) 
f (Adopted by Linnaeus from the older authors. It is a diminutive of Pyrus , and alludes 
to the resemblance of the leaves to those of a Pear tree. E.) 
