Chimaphila
(from cheima, winter, and phileo, to love; the plants are green in winter). ORD. Ericaceae Ornamental evergreen suffruticose plants, with creeping roots. Flowers corymbose; scapes naked. Leaves lanceolate, serrated, verticillate. For culture, see Pyrola.
C. corymbosa (corymbose).* fl. greenish-white, tinged with red, corymbose, pendulous, at length somewhat erect. June. l. cuneate-lanceolate, serrated, four to five in a whorl. h. 3in. to 6in. Northern hemisphere, 1752. SYN. Pyrola umbellata. (B. M. 778.)
C. maculata (spotted).* fl. white, pendulous; peduncles downy, bearing a two to three-flowered corymb at the apex. June. l. lanceolate, acute, with white bands on the upper surface along the nerve and veins, under surface red; opposite, or four in a whorl. Stem procumbent at base and ascending at apex. North America, 1752. SYN. Pyrola maculata. (B. M. 897.)