^8 WILD, OR NATIVE FLOWERS. 



purple-amethyst colour ; the style straight, with five radiating points at 

 the extremity, forming a perfect mural crown in shape ; it is bright 

 green, and much exceeds in length the stamens. 



■ The scent of the flower is very fine, resembling in richness that ot 

 the Hyacinth. 



The members of the Pyrola family are, for the most part, found in 

 rich woods, some in low, wet ground, but a few prefer the drier soil 

 of forests ; one of these is the exquisitely beautiful evergreen plant 

 known by Canadian settlers as 



Prince's Pine — Chimapliila umbcllata (Nutt), 



From root to summit this plant is altogether lovely. The leaves are 

 dark, shining and smooth, evergreen and finely serrated ; the stem is 

 of a bright rosy-red ; the delicately pink-tinted flowers look as if moulded 

 from wax : the anthers are of a bright amethyst-purple, set round the 

 emerald-green turbinated stigma. The flowers are not many, but form 

 a loose corymb springing from the centre of the shining green leaves. 

 There is scarcely a more attractive native plant than the Cliiiiiaphila 

 in our Canadian flora. 



The leaves of this beautiful Wintergreen are held in high estimation 

 by the Indian herbalists who call it Rheumatism weed ( Pipsisseioa ). It 

 is bitter and aromatic in quality. 



Lupine — Lupuuis pei-eunis (L. ) 



(PLATE IV.) 



" Lupine whose azure eye sparkles with dew." 



Those who know the Blue Lupine only as a cultivated flower can 

 form but a poor idea of its beauty in its wild state on the rolling prairies 

 or plainlands. 



On light loamy or sandy soil our gay Lupine may be seen, glad- 

 dening the wastes and purpling the ground with its long spikes of azure 

 blue, white and purple flowers, of many shades. 



The Lupine comes in with the larger yellow Moccasin {Cypripedium 

 pubescens); the Trillium grandifloruvi \ the white Pyrola, W'ild Rose 

 {Rosa blandri); Scarlet-cuj) (Gfi/Z/AvV? <r6't-<r//'/<Y?') and many others in the 

 flowery month of June ; mingling its azure flowers with these, it produces 

 an effect most pleasing to the eye. 



The blossoms, like those of all the Pul.se tribe to which it belongs, 

 are papilionaceous or winged. 'I'he two upper petals or wings are concave, 

 closing over the scythe shaped keel, which encloses the stamens, these are 

 united into a bundle at the base (this arrangement is called by botanists 



