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PYROLA medfo.
Intermediate Winter-green.
DEC ANURIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. deeply five-cleft. Pet. 5. Caps.
superior, of 5 cells, bursting at the angles. Seeds
numerous. Alnthers with 2 pores.
Spec. Char. Stamens regularly inflexed. Style curved
downwards. Cluster many-flowered, with a spiral
stalk. #
Syn. Pyrola media. Swartz in Stockholm Trans, fo r
1784. 263. t. 7. Winch Guide, v. 2. 19.
W E have the unexpected pleasure of adding another new
Pyrola to the British Flora, by favour of its discoverer
N. J. Winch, Esqt, who sent us this specimen, which agrees
with an authentic one from Dr. Swartz. It grows in shady
places, and has been observed by Mr. Winch in Scots-wood
Dean, 3 miles west of Newcastle ; in East-common wood
near Hexham, Northumberland; in some woods 4 miles
north of Wolsingham, Durham; and at Studley, Yorkshire,
flowering towards the end of June.
This species has been confounded with P. minor, t. 158,
with which «it nearly agrees in general habit, but differs in its
very spirally twisted flower-stalk, and in the declination and
much greater length of its style. The stamens are all regularly
incurved round the germen as in P. minor, not directed upwards
as in P. rotundifolia, t. 213, neither is the style so recurved
as in the latter, nor the flowers so large. The leaves
of all these species vary much in outline, as well as serratures.
The roots are creeping and perennial.