Sidebells Wintergreen

Ramischia elatior (Lange) Rydberg, sp. nov
Actinocyclus secundus elatior I^ange, Vidensk. Meddel. 1867; 115. 1868.
Perennial, with a creeping rootstock; stems above ground 3-10 cm. high, suffrutescent, bearing 3-6 leaves; petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades lanceolate or lance-elliptic, 1-5 cm. long, very acute, sharply serrate, firmer than in the preceding species; scape 1.5-3 dm. high, with 2-4 scales; raceme 10-18-flowered, secund; bracts linear, fully as long as the i^exed pedicels; sepals triangular, obtuse, as broad as long; petals elliptic, 5 mm. long, whitish; anthers fully 1.5 mm. long; style 3-4 mm, long.
Type locality: La Hoya, Vera Cruz. Distribution : Mount Orizaba and vicinity.

Ramischia secunda (L.) Garcke, Fl. Deuts. ed. 4. 222,
Pyrola secunda LSp. PI. 396. 1753.
Ramischia secundifiora Opiz, Seznam 82. 1852.
Actinocyclus secundus Klotzsch, Monats. Akad. Berlin 1857: 14. 1857.
Pyrola secunda pumila Paine, Cat. PI. Oneida Co. 135. 1865.
Perennial, with a long creeping rootstock; stems above ground more or less subligneous, 1-10 cm. high, bearing 1-4 leaves; petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades evergreen, but rather thin, shining, bright-green, finely serrulate, ovate or rarely oval, acute or rarely rounded at the apex, 1-5 cm. long; scape 1-2 dm. high, with 1-4 scales; raceme short, nodding, 6-17flowered; bracts subulate-ovate, sUghtly shorter than the pedicels; sepals oval or elliptic, 1 mm. long, rounded at the apex; petals oblong or elliptic, 4-5 mm. long, erect, greenishwhite ; anthers 1-1.5 mm. Ipng; style about 4 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter.
Type locawty: Woods of northern Europe.
Distribution: Woods, from Labrador and Newfoundland to New Jersey, South Dakota, New Mexico, California, and Alaska; also in Europe and northern Asia.