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14 BEAUTIFUL ELOWEBS OP KASHMIR [Plate 37
ERICACEAE.
The Heath Family.
Plate 37
(From the Greek ereike, heath, broom.)
PYROLA, Linn.
The Wintergreen.
(Pyrola is the diminutive of pyrus, pear-tree.)
Pig. 1. Pyrola rotundifolia, Linn. Bound-leafed
Wintergreen.
A glabrous, perennial herb. Leaves round or broadly eggshaped
or inversely egg-shaped or elliptic, narrowed into the
stalk, 1-2 in. diameter; quite or nearly entire, leathery, blunt
or slightly pointed ;
stalk about as long as the blade. Flowerstem
6-8 in. high. Flowers many, forming a raceme, drooping,
about i in. diameter. Bracts ^ in. long, lance-shaped, stemclasping.
Calyx deeply 5-lobed, persistent, segments broadly
egg-shaped or egg-lance-shaped or oblong-lance-shaped. Petals
i in. long, round or inversely egg-shaped, white and pink.
Stamens 10, shorter than the style. Anthers blunt or mucronate
at the base. Ovary 5-celled. Style as long as or longer
than the petals ;
lobes of stigma erect or spreading. Fruit a
capsule, i-J in. diameter, crowned by the persistent style.
Locality. Thajwas.
Distribution. Europe, N. Asia, N.W. and E. Himalaya,
Khasia Hills, N. America.
MONE8ES, Salisb.
Pig. 2. Moneses uniflora, Linn. Snowdrop Wintergreen.
(Uniflora means one-flowered.)
Stem leafy, 1-4 in. high. Leaves few, rounded or spoon -
shaped, toothed, wavy, alternate, membranous, shortly stalked.
Flowering stem bearing one bract at the top. Flower large,
solitary, at the end of the stem, drooping, then erect, white.
Sepals blunt and broad, fringed with hairs. Petals nearly
flat, spreading. Stamens shorter than the corolla, closely
pressed to the petals. Stalks of anthers curved. Sjigmas
long, persistent. Fruit a capsule, erect.
Flowers. August. t
Locality- Gulmarg, on banks under Spruce beside running
water, about 8,500 ft., very rare.
Distribution. N. and arctic Europe and Asia.