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PRINCE'S PINE. 



Pyrolas is evident at sight. Its study will therefore be a 

 comparative analysis, in which both its resemblances and 

 differences will appear. 



Analysis, 1. GENERIC CHAR- 

 ACTERS. The Prince's Pines are 

 small, suffruticous (sub, under, or 

 partly, frutex, a shrub ; i. e., half- 

 shrubby) plants. Their stems orig- 

 inate from long subterranean run- 

 ners like the Pyrolas, with leaves 

 evergreen, thick, shining, verticil- 

 late (whorled) or scattered in the 

 midst of the stem. The inflores- 

 cence is a terminal umbel on a long 

 peduncle, flesh-colored, 5-parted, 

 with Flowers. The Calyx is 5-lobed, 

 and the Corolla of 5 concave, or- 

 bicular, wide-spread petals. There 

 are ten 2-horned anthers, opening 

 by 2 terminal pores ; filaments (2, 3) 

 broad in the middle ; style (6) very 

 short ; stigma broad, disk-form. 

 The capsule (5, 4) is depressed, 

 globular, 5-celled, 5-valved, opening from the top. 



2. SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. The specimens in hand may 

 be of the kind commonly known at the North as Pipsissewa 

 (see Fig. XL) and esteemed for its tonic and diuretic proper- 

 ties. This plant stands 6-10' high on a base curving up- 

 ward. The leaves are in 2 or 3 whorls of 3s and 5s, 

 oblanceolate, narrowed to the base, sharply serrate, uni- 

 formly dark-green. The peduncle is 2-4', and sustains an 

 umbel of 4-7 flowers. 



The Name, Ohimdphila (winter-loving) umbelldta (um- 



7, Chimaphila maculata. 



