i62 A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



oval or oblong oval, 2-5 in. long, about half as wide 

 and Yi in. thick. Spines, when present, stout, straight, ashy- 

 grey, 3^-1 in. long. Flowers solitary, 2-3 in. wide, bright 

 yellow. Fruit inverted pear-shape, red, about i in. long. 

 Sandy or rocky places. Mass. to Penn., Kentucky and Florida. 

 July. Fig. 484. 



485. INDIAN PIPE AND PINE-SAP. 



{MONOTROPACEAE.) 



Curious leafless plants, the scale like bracts and branches 

 never green, usually white or pinkish white. Flowers solitary 

 or in small clusters, the 5 petals (in our species) separate. 

 Fruit a dry pod. 

 Flowers clustered, pinkish or yellowish, not nodding. 



486. Pine-SAP. Hypopitys qmericana. {Monotropa Hypo- 

 pitys.) An erect leafless, yellowish white herb, not over i ft. 

 tall, the stems sparingly beset with narrow scale-like bracts, 

 about y3 in. long. Flowers few, in a terminal cluster, yellow- 

 ish or pinkish, about % in. long, the petals minutely hairy. 

 Grows on decayed wood or humus in rich woods. Ontario to 

 No. Carolina, mostly in the mountains. July. Fig. 486. A 

 closely related species, H. lanuginosa, differs in having 

 longer hairs on the petals and in being a deeper reddish color. 

 In similar situations. Newfoundland to Florida, westward to 

 Indiana and Tenn. 



Flowers solitary, white, nodding. 



487. Indian Pipe. Monotropa uni flora. A ghostly white 

 woodland plant, living on dead wood or humus, never green, 

 about 8 in. tall. Leaves none, the white scales on the stem 

 about ^ in. long. Flower white, solitary, nodding, oblong 

 bell-shaped, about ^ in. long, becoming erect in fruit. Anti- 

 costi to Florida, and westward. July. Fig. 487. 



488. PITCHER PLANT AND SUNDEW. 

 SARRACENIACEAE AND DROSERACEAE.) 



Insect catching and digesting, bog, plants of strange habit, 

 and unusual food requirements. The Pitcher-plant has a 



