174 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



ONE-FLOWERED WINTERGREEN 



Monescs uniflora. Heath Family 



Stems: bearing three whorls of leaves at the base, continued above 

 into a bracted scape. Leaves: orbicular, petioled, serrulate. Flowers: 

 solitary, drooping ; petals five, widely spreading, sessile ; style straight ; 

 stigma peltate, large,, conspicuous, with five narrow lobes. 



Asa Gray has called this fragrant flower a " single de- 

 light," and certainly it is a joy to the traveller to find its 

 solitary drooping blossoms bent close down upon the soft 

 green carpet of the July woods. In the deep shade of the 

 conifers beds of these exquisite waxen Wintergreens grow 

 in profusion, each flower hanging its head and resembling a 

 shining star. Turn its face upwards, however, and you 

 will find its white petals have ten yellow-tipped stamens 

 placed at their base, and that the style, which is very large 

 and long, projecting from a conspicuous round green ovary, 

 is crowned by a five-lobed stigma. The leaves are set in 

 three circles on the stem, close to the ground, and are dark 

 green, smooth-surfaced, and have serrated margins. 



The One-flowered Wintergreen is a dweller in the dark- 

 est corners of the woods, where 



" That delicate forest flower, 

 With scented breath, and look so like a smile, 

 Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, 

 An emanation from the indwelling life." 



GREEN-FLOWERED WINTERGREEN 



Pyrola chlorantha. Heath Family 



Stems: three-to-ten flowered. Leaves: small, orbicular, coriaceous, 

 not shining. Flowers: nodding; calyx-lobes short, ovate, acute; petals 

 very obtuse; stamens declined; anthers distinctly contracted below the 

 openings, with beaked tips ; style declined, and curved upwards to- 

 wards the apex, longer than the petals. 



