MOUNTAIN Fi.O\\l<:RS g 



The beautiful white mountain Ilealh -rows abundantly at 

 hi<;h altitudes and is much i)rized by tra\ellcrs. Its branches 

 appear four-sided by reason of the manner in which the tiny 

 leaves grow on them, and from these branches slender stalks 

 are sent forth bearing at their tij)s waxen nodding bells, each 

 composed of a five-lobed corolla with a small green calyx. 



" Meek dwellers mid yon terror-stricken cliffs, 

 With brows so pure, and incense-hreathin<^ lips, 

 Whence are ye? Did some white-winiccd messenger, 

 On Mercy's missions, trust your timid germ 

 To the cold cradle of eternal snows ; 

 Or, breathing on the callous icicles, 

 Bid them with tear-drops nurse ye?"' 



WHITE FALSE HEATHER 



BiyautJuts glauduliflorus. Pieath Family 



Stems: rigid, fastigiately branched. Leaves: numerous, crowded, but 

 .somewhat .spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse, narrowed at the ba.se to a 

 .short petiole. Flowers : corolla short-lobed, glal)n)us. 



The flowers of the White Heather are like little fat cream- 

 coloured bulbs, with a tiny opening that is lobed. Its leaves 

 are longer and more spreading than those of the Heath, ncLu- 

 which it usually grows. 



GREEN-FLOWERED WINTERGREEN 



Pyfo/d cJilorantJia. Heath Familv 



Stems: three-to-ten flowered. Leaves: small, orbicular, coriaceous, not 

 shining. Flowers: nodding; cal)x-lobes short, o\ate, acute: petals very 

 obtu.se ; stamens declined ; anthers distinctly contracted below the open- 

 ings, with beaked tips; style declined, and curyed u])war(ls towards the 

 apex, longer than the petals. 



This Lily-of-the-\ ^alley-like ])lant is found in the dr\- woods 

 amone: the moss, and alwa\s in the shade. On a tall, slender, 

 single-bracted stalk grow numerous little nodding greenish- 

 white bells, five-lobed, with yellow-brown stamens and a long, 



