. Flowers of the field. Botany. 186 COROLLIFLOR^ stems, sim])lo, smooth, veiny evergreen leaves, and large, often fra- graul, flowers, which grow either singly or in a stalked terminal chister ; and Monotropa, a leafless parasitic plant, with the habit of an Ornhanche (Broom-rape), growing on the roots of firs and other trees. 1. Pyrola (Winter-green).âSepals 5 ; corolla of 5 deep lobes or petals ; skiimns 10; anthers 2-celled; stigma 5-lobed. (Name signifying a little pear, from a fancied resemblance between its leaves and those of that tree.) 2. Monotropa (Bird's-nest).âSepals 4-5 ; petals 4
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 186 COROLLIFLOR^ stems, sim])lo, smooth, veiny evergreen leaves, and large, often fra- graul, flowers, which grow either singly or in a stalked terminal chister ; and Monotropa, a leafless parasitic plant, with the habit of an Ornhanche (Broom-rape), growing on the roots of firs and other trees. 1. Pyrola (Winter-green).âSepals 5 ; corolla of 5 deep lobes or petals ; skiimns 10; anthers 2-celled; stigma 5-lobed. (Name signifying a little pear, from a fancied resemblance between its leaves and those of that tree.) 2. Monotropa (Bird's-nest).âSepals 4-5 ; petals 4-5, swollen at the base ; 8-10 ; anthers i-celled ; stigma flat, not lobed. (Name from the Greek, monos, one, and Irepo, to turn, the flowers being turned all one way.) I. Pyrola (Winter-green) 1. P. nniflora (Single-flowered Winter-green).âA remarkably pretty plant, bearing several roundish egg-shaped, smooth, and veiny leaves, and running up into a single flower-stalk, which bears one large elegant white drooping, highly fragrant flower. Moun- tainous woods in Scotland ; rare.âFl. July. Perennial. 2. P. rotundifolia (Round-leaved winter-green).âFlowers numer- ous, white ; distinguished by its long style bent down, and at the extremity curved upwards. Damp woods, Kent, Norfolk, and Suffolk, or as far north as Inverness; very rare. â â^Fl. July to September. Perennial. 3. P. media (Intermediate Winter-green). âResembling both P. rotundifolia and P. minor, but the style is erect, nearly straight, and much longer than the sta- mens. Found chiefly in Northern Britain. âFl. July, August. Perennial. 4. P. minor (Common Winter-green).â Flowers on short stalks, tinged with pink, enclosing the rather large stigma. Found chiefly in the north.âFl. July, August. Perennial. 5. P. sccimda (One-sided Winter-green). âFlowers numerous, greenish, all turned to one side ; style long and straight, protruding from the incurved petals. Found in and Scotland. â Fl. J
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