Pyrola

It shelters species such as interrupted clubmoss Lycopodium annotinum ssp. alpestre, common horsetail Equisetum arvense and in the drier parts round-leaved wintergreen Pyrola grandiflora.

Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

(_Pyrola rotundifolia_) strung with faint pink flowers and exhaling the breath of a May orchard, -- that it looks too costly a couch for such an idler, I recline to note what transpires.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

The Pyrola, named by the Indians Pipsissewa, and regarded by them as a specific for consumption, suspends its pale purple flowers in beautiful umbels, as if to invite the feeble invalid to accept its proffered remedies.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

The popular nostrum "Hop Bitters" is thus made: Buchu leaves, two ounces; Hops, half-a-pound; boil in five quarts of water, in an iron vessel, for an hour; when lukewarm add essence of Winter-green (_Pyrola_), two ounces, and one pint of alcohol.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

_Ledum_, _Monotropa_ and _Pyrola_, or the Labrador tea, the Indian pipe and wintergreen are instances of reversionary gamopetalism with free petals.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

There was only one scarce flower, the Pyrola Uniflora, which it was difficult to find.

A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia 1867

The only bright-looking things near were the fringes of blue forget-me-nots and green lady-fern; and the delicate white blossoms of the graceful Pyrola Uniflora were sometimes, though not often, found.

A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia 1867

Hellebore -- the one-sided Pyrola, the Bladder Campion -- _silene inflata_, the sweet-scented yellow Mellilot, the white Yarran, the Prunella with blue labrate flowers the Yellow Rattle, so called from the rattling of the seeds.

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

(_Rosa macrophylla_), one of the most beautiful Himalayan plants, whose single flowers are as large as the palm of the hand, was blossoming, while golden _Potentillas_ and purple primroses flowered by the stream, and _Pyrola_ in the fir-woods.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Pyrola secunda (one-sided pyrola), very common, Caucomgomoc.

The Maine Woods 1858