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woods, Maine to Minnesota, southward to Georgia and 

 Mississippi. Found 4,200 feet high in North Carolina. (See 

 illustration, p. 275.) 



One-flowered Pyrola 



Moneses uniflbra — Family, Heath. Color, white or pink. (See 

 White Flowers, p. 108.) 



Pinesap. False Beech Drops 



Monotropa Hypopitis.— Family, Heath. Color, red or somewhat 

 brownish. Flowers, several in 1 -sided racemes, the terminal flower 

 with its parts in fives, the others with 3 or 4 sepals and petals. 

 At first nodding, the spike of flowers becomes erect. Stamens, 

 6 to 10. Ovary, 3 to 5 -celled. No leaves, but a succession of 

 colored bracts overlapping one another at the base of the thick 

 stem, which arises from a dense cluster of fleshy, fibrous roots. 

 Stem, 10 to 12 inches high. June to October. 



There is a pleasant fragrance about the flowers. The 

 plant is a parasite, as is revealed by the total absence of 

 green chlorophyll grains in any of its parts. In almost any 

 pine or oak woods, open or heavy, looking in the distance 

 like a group of fungi. They have a wide range over the 

 United States from New England to Florida. (See illustra- 

 tion, p. 277.) 



Trailing Arbutus 

 Epigaea ripens, — Family, Heath. Color, white or pink. (See 

 White Flowers, p. no.) 



Cranberry 

 ^ Vaccinium Oxycoccus — Family, Heath. Color, white, with pink- 

 tinge. Leaves, small, scale-like, thin, with turned-back margins. 

 Calyx and corolla, 4-cleft. Stamens, 8. Berry, 4-celled. Flowers, 

 nodding. Fruit, a small acid berry, not so desirable for the table 

 as the larger species. Stems, wiry, trailing, from 6 tc 9 inches long. 



Large American Cranberry 



V, macrocarpon is the one cultivated in large sections of bog 

 land, and prized as an accompaniment to the Thanksgiving 

 turkey. The stems grow prostrate, often 4 to 5 feet in length. 

 Flowers are large, with corolla turned back. 



The name cranberry is said to be a shortening of crane- 

 berry, referring to the curve of the branches, which are con- 

 ceived to be like the crooked neck of a crane. A cranberry- 

 bog is flooded with water in the fall and early spring. In 



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