Green Leaves at Work 



type, even in the vegetable 

 world. All these plants are 

 destitute of green coloring- 

 matter, and are of creamy 

 hues, tinged with purple, 

 straw-color, or golden-brown, 

 and the leaves of all are 

 mere reminiscent scales. It 

 is believed that the Indian- 

 pipe and its next of kin, 

 popularly known as pine-sap 

 (Fig. 1 8), begin life as para- 

 sites on living roots; but, as 

 they mature, their habits un- 

 dergo still further deteriora- 

 tion, till the full-grown plants 

 suck their nourishment from 

 the decaying leaves which 

 carpet the forest. The In- 

 dian-pipe is entirely white all 

 over, and though it is own 

 cousin to the bonny heather, 

 its substance looks like that 

 of the fungi, which stand far 

 below it in the scale of na- 



i * . FIG. 18. Pine-sap (Mono- 



ture, and yet share its tastes tropa Hypopity]}. 



and bear it company. 



(From Natural History of 

 New York.) 



