PRINCE'S PIXE (Chimdphila Menziesii, Spreng.). Flowers 

 fragrant, white or pinkish, the 5 waxen, roundish, concave pet- 

 als spreading and somewhat turned back; borne singly, or 2 or 

 3, on a terminal naked stalk; the sticky stigma quite promin- 

 ent, button-like with blunt rays. Leaves narrowish, leathery, 

 dark green, the upper surface sometimes mottled with white. 

 A low evergreen plant, rarely 6 inches high, branching from 

 woody runners, in coniferous woods from Central California 

 to British Columbia; blooming in summer. 



The name Chimaphila means "winter-loving," and was 

 given the genus by the botanist Pursh when he separated it 

 from the genus Pyrola some species of which were much used 

 in his time for indoor winter decorations, under the general 

 name of "winter-green." 



The well-known plant of Atlantic Coast woodlands called 

 Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata, Nutt.), is also found on the 

 Pacific Coast and in similar situations to C. Menziesii, and 

 may be distinguished from the latter by the greater abundance 

 of its leaves which are never spotted, and by its larger flowers, 

 some in clusters of 4 to 7. The leaves of Chimaphila possess 

 a principle which has occasioned their use in. medicine to some 

 extent as a tonic, astringent, and diuretic. 

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