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PRIi^^CE'S PlKfi. 



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

 comparative analysis, in which both its resemblances and 

 differences will ajDpear. 



Analysis, — 1. Generic Char- 

 acters. — The Prince's Pines are 

 small, suffruticoiis (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, with flowers flesh-colored, 

 5-parted, 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, CM7}idpMla (winter-loving) umbeUcUa (um- 



7, Chimaphila macul^ta. 



