226 Pink to Red Flowers 



a spreading cluster, are small and marked with a deep pink 

 ring. The filaments are fringed with marginal hairs. 



Chimaphila Menziesii, or Spotted Prince's Pine, is not 

 quite so tall as the preceding species. It has small oblong 

 leaves, pointed at both ends, and sharply toothed, the upper 

 surface being usually spotted or mottled with white. The 

 peduncle bears one to three flowers, which latter are a dull 

 pinkish creamy-white. 



BOG WINTERGREEN 



Pyrola asarifolia. Heath Family 



Stems: scape six-to-tweh^e flowered. Leaves: coriaceous, shining 

 above, reniform, wider than long, crenulate. Flowers: racemose, nod- 

 ding ; petals five, obtuse ; calyx five-parted, persistent, the lobes tri- 

 angular-lanceolate ; stamens declined ; style declined and exserted. 



The tall red stalk of this Wintergreen, with its numerous 

 nodding rosy blossoms, is exceedingly attractive, especially 

 as it grows in the deep moist woods, where few flowers 

 flourish owing to the absence of all sunlight. Very fra- 

 grant also is this quaint plant, to which the name of Winter- 

 green has been given on account of its evergreen foliage. 

 The long out-curved style, which protrudes far beyond the 

 floral cup, is green, and has a dull red stigma, while the ten 

 stamens are tipped by dark, slightly beaked anther-sacs. 

 The calyx is entirely of a deep red hue, and the petals are 

 bright-coloured at the outer edges, shading into palest pink 

 in the centre. The leaves grow in a cluster at the base and 

 are thick, tough, and glossy. A few narrow little bracts 

 cling to the flower-stalks. 



Sheltered from the wind and the sun, half hidden by 

 mosses and tangled undergrowth, but always preferring a 



