WHITE 



SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY. 



Vaccinium stamineum. Heath Family. 

 Two or three feet high. Stems. Diffusely branched. 

 This large greenish or yellowish berry is hardly edible. The 

 flowers appear in June, and are easily recognized by their pro- 

 truding stamens. The leaves are pale green above and whitish 

 underneath. 



PIPSISSEWA. PRINCE'S PINE. 



Chimaphila umbellata. Heath Family. 



Stem. Four to ten inches high, leafy. Leaves. Somewhat whorled or 

 scattered, evergreen, lance-shaped, with sharply toothed edges. Flowers. 

 White or purplish, fragrant, in a loose terminal cluster. Calyx. Five- 

 lobed. Corolla. With five rounded, widely spreading petals. Stamens. 

 Ten, with violet anthers. Pistil. One, with a short top-shaped style and 

 disk-like stigma. 



When strolling through the woods in summer one is apt to 

 chance upon great patches of these deliciously fragrant and pretty 

 flowers. The little plant, with its shining evergreen foliage, 

 flourishes abundantly among decaying leaves in sandy soil, and 

 puts forth its dainty blossoms late in June. It is one of the lat- 

 est of the fragile wood-flowers which are so charming in the ear- 

 lier year, and which have already begun to surrender in favor of 

 their hardier, more self-assertive brethren of the fields and road- 

 sides. The common name, pipsissewa, is evidently of Indian 

 origin, and perhaps refers to the strengthening properties which 

 the red men ascribed to it. 



SPOTTED PIPSISSEWA. 



Chimaphila maculata. Heath Family. 



The spotted pipsissewa blossoms a little later than its twin- 

 sister. Its slightly toothed leaves are conspicuously marked with 

 white. 



WHITE DAISY. WHITE-WEED. OX-EYED DAISY. 



Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. Composite Family (p. 13). 

 The common white daisy stars the June meadows with those 

 gold-centred blossoms which delight the eyes of the beauty- 



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