Whiteveined Wintergreen

Pyrola picta Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 29: Pyrola no. 8. 1814
Thelaia spathulata Alef. Linnaea 28: 45, in part. 1856.
Perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stem above ground 1-5 cm. long; petioles 1-4 cm. long; leaf -blades ovate or roundedovate, usually acute at the apex, denticulate or entire, 2-6 cm. long, 1-5 cm. wide, the upper surface green and white-mottled along the veins, the lower usually tinged with red or else pale; scape with 1-3 scales, including the inflorescence 1-2 PYROI/ACBAE
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dm. high, often brownish; raceme 5-15-flowered; bracts lanceolate, purple-tinged, much shorter than the pedicels; pedicels about 5 mm. long; sepals about 1.5 mm. long and broad, ovatedeltoid, acute; petals greenishwhite or brownish without; filaments dilated below; anthers oblong, apiculate at the distal end; tubes nearly 1 mm. long; pores large, suborbicular ; style scarcely longer than the petals, thickened upwards; stigma shorter than the thickness of the style.
Type locality: West coast of North America.
Distribution: Woods, from New Mexico and Colorado to California and British Columbia.

Pyrola aphylla Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 29: Pyrola no. 7. 1814
Pyrola aphylla leptosepala Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 271. 1843. Thelaia aphylla Alef. Linnaea 28: 39. 1856.
Perennial, usually leafless, with a branched creeping scaly rootstock ; stem above ground usually none; scape 1-3 dm. high, often tinged with red, usually more scaly than in the other species, rarely with a few small leaves at the base, these obovate or oblanceolate, acute, 1-2 cm. long, sessile or tapering into a short and broad petiole; racemes 8-25-flowered; bracts 3-5 mm. long, lanceolate ; pedicels about 5 mm. long, recurved ; sepals ovate-triangular, acute, as long as broad or slightly longer, about 1.5 mm. in length; petals obovate, 6-8 mm. long, whitish, or tinged with brown or green on the outside; filaments dilated below; anthers 3 mm. long, apiculate at the distal end; tubes nearly 1 mm. long, cmrved; pores small, oblique; style 6-8 mm. long, thickened upwards.
Type locality: West coast of North America.
Distribution: Pine woods, from British Columbia to Montana, Idaho, and southern California.

Pyrola sparsifolia Suksd. Alig. Bot. Zeits. 12: 26. 1906
Pyrola aphylla paucifolia llowell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 425. 1901. Pyrola paradoxa Andres, Verb. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brand. S4: 220. 1912.
Perennial, with a slender rootstock; stem above ground very short; scape slender, 1-2 dm. high, with several scales and often with 1-3 leaves at the base, and one or two scales above; leaves if present short-petioled ; blades orbicular or oval, often apiculate, and sometimes dentate above, 1-2 cm. long; racemes 4r-10-flowered; bracts 2-3 mm. long, much shorter than the pedicels; sepals triangular, acute, as broad as long; petals greenishwhite, eUiptic, 7-8 mm. long; filaments dilated below; anthers 3 mm. long, mucronate at the distal end;
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tubes short, curved; style about 5 mm. long, slightly thickened upwards.
TyfB locality: Thick woods at "Moosbach" [Moss Creek], Skamania County, Washington.
Distribution: Pine woods, Olympic and Cascade mountains, Washington.

Pyrola dentata Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 29: Pyrola no. 6. 1814
Thelaia spathulata Alef. Linnaea 28: 45. in part. 1856.
Pyrola dentata Integra A. Gray; Cooper, Pacif, R. R. Rep. 122; 54.
Pyrola pallida Greene, Pittonia 4: 39. 1899.
Pyrola picta dentata Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 434. 1906.
Pyrola picta Integra Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 434. 1906.
Pereimial, with a cespitose rootstock; stem above ground very short; petioles 1-3 cm. long; leaf-blades oblanceolate, obovate, or spatulate, dentate or entire, acute or the earlier obtuse at the apex, tapering at the base, 1.5-6 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, green on both sides, not mottled, sometimes rather pale and glaucous {P. pallida Greene) ; scape with 1-3 small scales, including the inflorescence 1-2 dm. high, sometimes tinged with purple; raceme 5-15-flowered; bracts lanceolate, scarcely half as long as the pedicels; pedicels 4-5 mm. long; sepals deltoid, 1.5 mm. long; petals obovate, about 5 mm. long, greenish-white or brownish without except the margin; filaments dilated below; anthers oblong, 3 mm. long, mucronate at the distal end; tubes 0.5 mm. long, curved; fruit about 6 mm. thick.
Type locality: West coast of North America.
Distribution: Montana and British Columbia to central California and Nevada.

Pyrola septentrionalis Andres, Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 63: 71. 1913
Pyrola hlanda Andres, Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 63: 72. 1913. Pyrola Conardiana Andres, Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. $3: 73. 1913.
Perennial, with a strong rootstock; stem above ground very short; leaves numerous; petiole as long as the blade or shorter ; blades oval or ovate, rarely elliptic, acute, sharply dentate or serrate, dark-green above, dull, brownish beneath; scape 1-2 dm. high, with 1 or 2 oval scales, reddish or purplish; raceme many-flowered; bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicels, reflexed; sepals lanceolate, pointed, 3.5-5 mm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide; petals oval, 6-9 mm. long, white or greenish-white with pale throat; anthers 2,5-3.5 mm. long; style thin, longer than the corolla.
Type locality: Oregon. Distribution: Oregon and California.