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P Y R O L A uniflora.
Single-flowered Winter-green.
D E C A N D R I A Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. 5 -cleft. Petals 5. Capfule 5-celIed
burfting at the angles.
Spec. Char. Stalk bearing a folitary flower.
Syn. Pyrola uniflora. Linn. Sp. P I. 568. F I. Dan.
t. 8. very incorredf.
P. fcapo unifloro. H all. Hifl. 10 1 1 .
P . quarta minima Clufii. Ger.em. 408.
H a v in g in the preceding page determined an obfcure
plant, we hope in this to afford the Britifh botanift no lefs
pleafure in prefenting him with a new one. Pyrola uniflora,
though a native of the Lapland, Norway, German and Swifs
alps, was never fuppofed to grow in our ifland till James Brodie
Efq. of Brodie-houfe in Scotland found it in that neighbourhood
laft fummer, when alfo Mr. James Hoy F. L. S. fent
it to the Linnean Society from near Gordon Caftle. Both
thefe gentlemen we believe are equally entitled to the honour
of its firft difcovery ; to the former we are indebted for recent
wild fpecimens.
This Pyrola is found in moift alpine woods: its long branched
perennial roots run deep among the mofs, which in fuch places
is watered by numerous little rills. Every part is fmooth.
The Item fhort, Ample, angular, fet with a few alternate concave
fcales, and bearing feveral roundifh, more or lefs obtufe,
ferrated, veiny, petiolate leaves. Stalk terminal, ereft, much
longer than the ftem, angular, bearing feldom more than one
concave braftea, with a folitary flower of great elegance,
compared by Clufius to that of the Parnaflia (t. 82), and poffeff-
ing all the fragrance of Lily of the valley. This flower is in
perfection about July. Its corolla is fometimes ftreaked externally
with red, as is the calyx. Linnaeus and Haller have
well obferved that the ftamina are not placed regularly with
refpedt to the petals, fome of the latter having 3 ftamina next
them, others 2, and others but 1. The antherae are of a moft
curious figure, 4-lobed, with two tubes at the bafe by which
probably the pollen is difcharged. The ftigma refembles a
5-rayed crown.