270 HEATH FAMILY. 



both ends, 2'-4' long, and sprinkled, like the branchlets and outside of 

 the rather small, short, tunnel-shaped, ro.se-colored corolla, with rusty dots 

 or atoms. 



13. LEDUM, LABRADOR TEA. (An old Greek name.) Flowers 

 early sunnner. 



L. latifdlium. Ait. Low and damp or wet grounds from Penn. N. ; 

 2^-5'^ high, with oblong leaves, usually 5 stamens, and oblong pods. 



14. LEIOPHYLLUM, SAND MYRTLE. (Name from the Greek, 



meaning shmoth leaf.) 



L. buxif61ium, VA\. Evergreen shrub a few inches high, much 

 branched, with oval or oblong Myrtle-like leaves (from j' to nearly i' 

 long), and umbels of small white flowers in late spring. In sand, from 

 K J., S. 



15. CLETHRA, \VHITE ALDER. (Old Greek name of alder, from 

 some resemblance in the foliage.) Flowers in summer. 



C. alnifdlia, Linn. Low grounds ; 3°-10° high with wedge- obovate, 

 sharply serrate, straight-veined leaves, and pretty, upright panicled 

 racemes of fragrant, small flowers. 



16. CHIMAPHILA, PIPSISSEWA or PRINCE'S PINE. (Name 

 from Greek, means lover of icinter, i.e. Wintergreen.) Plants of dry 

 or moist woods, branched at base, 3'-10' high, with fragrant, wax-like, 

 mostly flesh-colored flowers, in early summer. 21 



C. umbellata, Nutt. Leaves wedge-lanceolate, sharply serrate, not 

 spotted ; tlowers 4-7, with violet-colored anthers. 



C maculata, Pursh. Lower, 3'-(3' high, with ovate-lanceolate, remotely 

 toothed leaves, blotched with white, and 1-5 flowers. 



17. MONESES, ONE-FLOWERED PYROL.\. (Name from the 

 Greek, refers to the solitary flower.) Flowering in early summer. 21 



M. grandifl6ra, Salisb. Cold woods N. E. ; with roundish and serrate 

 veiny leaves about h' long, scape 2'-4' high, and rather large white or 

 rose-colored flower. 



18. PYROLA. WINTERGREEN, SHIN LEAF. (Old name, diminu- 

 tive of Pyrus, the Pear tree, the application not obvious.) Flowers 

 mostly greenish-white, in summer. 21 (Lessons, Fig. 307.) 



* Flowers all turned to tme side, rn/her spreading than voddiiui, the 

 petals conniriiKj ; stamens and sti/le straitjld ; stigma large and b-rayed. 



P. secunda, Linn. Rich woods N. and E. ; slender, 3'-G' high, with 

 thin, ovate leaves and dense, spike-like raceme. 



* * Flowers nodding, the petals partly expanding, the hanging style more 



or less curved, tipped vnth a narrow stigma, and stamens ascending. 



P. chlor^ntha, Swartz. Scape 5'-6' high, with a few greenish-white 

 flowers, thick but dull roundish leaves only 1' long, and anthers short- 

 horned. Open woods N. 



P. ellfptica, Nutt. Shix Lkaf. Taller; leaves thinnish and dull, 

 upright, on rather long and margined petioles; the greenish-white flowers 

 nearly as in the following. Md., N. and W. 



