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HEATH FAMILY (Ericaceae). 



A family of shrubs or herbs having perfect and 

 usually regular flowers, with four or five petals and 

 the same number, or twice as many, stamens. 



Divided into three sub-families, the Pyrola (Pyrol- 

 oideae), the Indian Pipe (Monotropoideae) and the 

 Heath (Ericoideae). 



PYROLA SUBFAMILY. 



SPOTTED WINTERGREEN (Chimaphila macula- 

 ta) is a very handsome plant that we often come 

 across in our rambles through rich woodland. It is a 

 species one cannot mistake, for no other is like it. 

 The stalk, that rises from 3 to 9 inches high, is of a 

 ruddy color; the leaves are thick, smooth, irregularly 

 toothed, lance-shaped, pointed and with conspicuous 

 whitish streaks following the veins. In July and 

 August, it bears one to five nodding flowers on long, 

 erect peduncles above the topmost whorl of leaves; 

 the five rosy or cream-colored petals have a frail, 

 translucent, waxy appearance that characterizes 

 members of this sub-family. 



As would be imagined from its name, the leaves 

 of this species remain on the plant through the win- 

 ter. Because of this fact and their beauty, they are 

 in demand for, and make excellent plants in ferner- 

 ies. It ranges from Me., Ontario and Minn, south- 

 ward to Ga. and Miss. 



PIPSISSEWA; PRINCE'S PINE (Chimaphila um- 

 bel I ata) grows in similar localities and is generally 

 more common than the last. Its leaves are usually 

 in two whorls about the brownish stem; they are 

 bright shining green, toothed, unspotted, pointed, but 

 broadened towards the end. The flowers are similar 

 to the last and are in a loose 2 to 8-flowered umbel. 

 The style is very short, with a five-parted gummy 

 stigma; the ten stamens have double, purplish anth- 

 ers. This species is found from N. S. to Ga. and west 

 to the Pacific Coast. 



