P Y R O L A minor.
Treffer Winter-green.
D E C A N D R I A Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-cleft. Petals 5. Capfule 5-celled,
burfting at the angles.
S p e c . C h a r . Flowers in a racemus, fcattered. Stamina
fpreading every way. Style ftraight.
S y n . Pyrola minor. Linn. Sp. P I. 567. Hudf. Ft.
An. 176 . With. Bot. A rr. 429. R a il Syn. 36 3 .
S e n t from Scotland along with Pyrola uniflora (t. 146) by
James Brodie Efq. It is rather an alpine plant, occurring in
mountainous forefts, though even found in Stoken-church
woods Oxfordfhire. Dillenius well obferves, that this is really
more common than the P. rotundifolia, called by old authors
vulgaris, and fufpects they may often have been confounded, as
they certainly were, by Ray. Dr. Smith found them fo in Mr.
Lightfoot’s herbarium, though fo diftindt in the form and po-
fition of their ftamina and piftilla, as we hope to demonftrate
when we can obtain a wild fpecimen of P. rotundifolia.
The plant now figured has a perennial branchy root, producing
a few fhort, angular, leafy Items. The leaves are round-
ifh, obtufe, obfoletely ferrated, of a hard firm texture, fmooth,
on longifh, angular, and often webbed, footftalks. The ftalk
is erect, about 6 inches high, triangular, fmooth, terminating
in a Ample upright bunch of white or reddifh flowers, Handing
on fhort footftalks, and pointing every way. The bradteae lanceolate,
(landing folitary at the bafe of each footftalk. Calyx
fmall. Petals concave, veiny. Stamina fpreading from their
bafe, then eredt. Antherae roundifh, with two holes at their
lower part, but not, as in P. uniflora, protruded into tubes.
Germen roundifh, with five furrows. Style fimple, fhort, eredt,
nearly on a level with the ftamina. Stigma fmall, five-lobed.
This fpecies, planted by Mr. Lightfoot, isin a manner naturalized
in the Duke of Portland’s fine wood at Bulftrode.
its.