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long, and greenish white flowers about one-half of an inch broad. Fre- 

 quent in dry woods. 



The Liver : leaf Wintergreen (Pyrola asarifolia Michaux) has 

 reniform leaf blades usually wider than long, and a raceme of nodding, 

 purple or rose-colored flowers which are one-half to two-thirds of an inch 

 broad. A boreal species, of cold, moist woods and swamps of the north, 

 known in New York only from a few Adirondack localities. 



The One-sided Wintergreen (Pyrola secunda Linnaeus) has 

 short, slender stems, not stiffly erect but ascending, 2 to 10 inches high, 

 leaves oval, ovate or nearly orbicular in shape, pointed at the apex with 

 crenulate-serrate margins; flowers usually many in a one-sided terminal 

 raceme, white or greenish white and soon drooping, one-fourth to one- 

 third of an inch broad. 



The One-flowered Wintergreen (Moneses uniflora (Linnaeus) 

 A. Gray) is closely related to the Pyrolas and has a single flower, one-half 

 to two-thirds of an inch broad on a stem 2 to 6 inches high. In general 

 appearance and character of leaves it resembles most closely the small 

 Pyrola secunda. 



Pipsissewa; Prince's Pine 



Chimaphila umbellata (Linnaeus) Barton 



Plate isaa 



Stems trailing, creeping, branching and more or less horizontally sub- 

 terranean and perennial, slightly woody in texture, sending up both leafy 

 and flowering branches which are erect and 5 to 12 inches high. Leaves 

 narrowly wedge-shaped, blunt or pointed at the apex, tapering at the base, 

 sharply toothed, bright green and shining, i to 2\ inches long, one-fourth 

 to i inch wide above the middle and remaining green over winter. Flowers 

 one-half to two-thirds of an inch broad, several in an umbellate or sub- 

 corymbose cluster, white or pinkish, usually with a deep-pink ring; petals 

 five, concave, nearly orbicular; stamens ten; style very stout, obconic; 

 stigma large, orbicular, with five crenations or lobes. Capsules erect, 

 globular, five-lobed and five-celled ; the valves not woolly on the margins 

 when separating, one-fourth to one-third of an inch thick. 



In dry woods, often under or near pines, Nova Scotia to British 

 Columbia, south to Georgia and the Rocky mountains. Flowering in this 

 State from the latter part of June until August. 



