168 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



grow together in the late season. They have, in common with 

 the leaves, a pleasant taste and afford many a merry meal to 

 animals and birds. When fate decrees that they shall blush 

 unseen and no one comes by to pick them, they simply dry 

 upon the stem until their innate wisdom tells them that the 

 ground is ripe for sowing. The seeds are then let loose and 

 drop into the ground. The Indian knew that from this plant 

 he could extract something to soothe his aching bones ; and the 

 white man is now doing the same thing, as the oil of winter- 

 green is considerably used for rheumatism. 



G. Shdllon, (Plate LXXXVII2} is a small wintergreen shrub that 

 is not very generally known, as it confines itself to the pine woods 

 of the far west. It spreads gaily over the ground as though it 

 had no other object in life than to make the air spicy and fresh. 

 The waxy flowers grow in graceful racemes ; and the glossy, 

 ovate leaves appear to be the very essence of healthful vigour. 



SPICE=BUSH. BENJAniN=BUSH. FEVER=BUSH. 



Benzoin Benzoin. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Laurel. Greenish yellow. Spicy. Massachusetts south- March, April. 



ward and westward. 



Flowers: both staminate and pistillate, with a four-leaved involucre under- 

 neath; clustered along the branches and appearing before the leaves. Calyx : 

 of six sepals. Corolla : none. Stamens: nine, in the sterile blossoms. Pistil- 

 late flowers with a rounded ovary. Fruit : an oblong, reel berry. Learns: 

 alternate; oblong; on short petioles ; hairy along the margins and having an 

 aromatic flavour. A shrub four to fifteen feet high , with brittle branches. 



A valuable bush of the moist woods and thickets and one of 

 the earliest to come into bloom. Its leaves and berries, as its 

 name spice-bush implies, have often performed kindly services 

 for housewives that live at a great distance from " the store." 



INDIAN-PIPE. GHOST FLOWER. CORPSE PLANT. 



(Plate LXXXIX.) 

 Monotropa itniflbra. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Indian-Pipe. White. Scentless. General. June, July. 



Flowers : terminal ; solitary ; nodding ; in fruit erect. Calyx : of two to four 



