This plant runneth upon the ground, and bringeth forth roundish leaves by pairs on creeping stalks.

The leaves as I think are like those of periwinkle, but they are somewhat rounder, and the largest of them are bent in before. The stalk is somewhat knotty and woody.

The flower appeareth at first wrapt up like a leaf, but after it is grown out a little more, one may see it to be a flower; it grows out between the leaves on the same stalk.

The colour and shape of these flowers I could not at that time observe, because they were not yet blown, much less could I gather the seed.

The root is long, slender, round, woody, and knotty, it hath small branched fibers at the bottom: I found it in the South Bay, behind the cookery of Harlem, on the 19th of June and the 17th of July. Since I saw neither the flower nor seeds, and in probability it would have put forth more leaves, I cannot determine whether it be the pyrola minima, whereof Clusius giveth us a cutt and description in the fifth book of his rare plants, in the twentieth chapter; or whether it may be the Pseudochamœ Buxus ofthe Hortus Echstetensis, which is given by Clusius, in the 72nd chapter of the before-mentioned book, by the name of Anonymos Coluteœ flore, and accurately described; and Camererarius, in his Hortus, giveth it us under the name of Anonymos Pervinczœ folio.