98 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



daisy by the people of that locality. The flower 

 grows about three inches high on a fine stem, and 



is tiny and dainty ; each 

 petal is notched at the end, 

 and is translucent white in 

 color. Little specimens of 

 the plant are tucked into 

 small birch-bark baskets and 

 sold to the visitors on the 

 mountain. Of course, it 

 gets its name by its arctic 

 preferences ; for the cold 

 fog, snow, and ice of Green- 

 land are its natural environ- 

 ment. Still, we are sur- 

 prised at finding such a delicate-looking little thing 

 on the bleak, desolate summit of the great New Eng- 

 land mountain. 



Indian Pipe. Gray's description of the Indian 

 Monotrnpa uniflont. pipe is SO simple that I can not 

 do better than quote what he says ; " Common In- 

 dian pipe, or corpse plant ; in rich woods, smooth, 

 waxy-white all over, three to six inches high, with 

 one rather large nodding flower of five petals and 

 ten stamens." These are what might be called the 

 bare facts of its existence. But there is more that 

 is really interesting about it : the queer, little, un- 



Mountain Sandwort. 



