. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. WINTERGREEN FAMILY. 671 8. Pyrola secunda L. Serrated or One-sided Wintergreen. Fig. 3204. Pyrola secunda L. Sp. PI. 396. 1753. Pyrola secunda {•umila Paine, Cat. Plants Oneida Co., N. Y. 135. Scapes usually several together from the much- branched rootstock, slender, 2-10' high. Leaf-blades ovate, or oval, or nearly orbicular, mostly thin, acute, or r
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. WINTERGREEN FAMILY. 671 8. Pyrola secunda L. Serrated or One-sided Wintergreen. Fig. 3204. Pyrola secunda L. Sp. PI. 396. 1753. Pyrola secunda {•umila Paine, Cat. Plants Oneida Co., N. Y. 135. Scapes usually several together from the much- branched rootstock, slender, 2-10' high. Leaf-blades ovate, or oval, or nearly orbicular, mostly thin, acute, or rarely obtuse at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, crenulate-serrulate, 6"-2' long, longer than their petioles; flowers many, in a dense one-sided raceme, at first erect, soon drooping, white or green- ish-white, z"-4t" broad; pedicels short; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, or obtusish, very short; petals oval, obtuse, with a pair of tubercles at the base, cam- panulate-connivent; style straight, exserted; stamens not declined, connivent around the pistil; capsule about 2" in diameter. In woods and thickets, Labrador to Alaska, south to the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ne- braska, along the Rocky Mountains to Mexico and to California. Ascends to 3000 ft. in the Adirondacks. Also in Europe and Asia. Shin-leaf. 2. MONESES Salisb.; S. F. Gray, Srr. Brit. Plants 2: 403. 1821. A low perennial glabrous herb, with a decumbent leafy base, petioled evergreen crenu- late leaves, opposite, or verticillate in 3's, and a solitary drooping white or pink flower at the summit of a slender scape. Calyx 4-5 parted, persistent. Petals 4 or 5, spreading, broadly ovate or orbicular, sessile. Stamens 8 or 10, similar to those of Pyrola. Disk obsolete. Ovary globose, 4-S-celled; style straight, club-shaped at the summit; stigma 4-S-lobed; ovules very numerous in each cavity. Capsule subglobose, 4-S-lobed, 4-S-celled, loculicidally 4-S-valved from
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