376 THE INDIAN-PIPE FAMILY. 



usually ten, the anthers peltate. Stig-ma : five-rayed. S/j//e: short. Fruit: an 

 erect capsule. Stem: four to ten inches high; leafless but bracted; round; smooth; 

 white, turning to black atter being picked. 



This is the strange little plant that we sometimes catch a stray glimpse of 

 through woods as perchance it thrives on some decayed vegetable matter 

 in the neighbourhood of the Carolina lily. Its small nodding flowers are 

 shaped like a pipe, and its look is ghost-like, the plant being quite without 

 the grains of chlorophyll which produce the green colouring matter we are 

 so accustomed to seeing in foliage. Occasionally, however, the whole 

 plant is found of a pinky red. Through deep, well-shaded woods it 

 blooms until late in the summer, and is perhaps as well known and beloved 

 by country children as is Jack-in-the-pulpit. The Indians make a decoc- 

 tion from it for the purpose of strengthening the eyes. 



Monotropsis odordta, Carolina beech-drops, or sweet pine-sap {Plate 

 CXVIII), is more rarely found through shady woods than the Indian pipe 

 and is a rather shorter plant. Its fragrant flowers also are considerably 

 smaller and nod in a terminal raceme. They are pink and, as is the way of 

 this family, the plants are Saprophytic. 



Hypopitys Hypopitys, false beech-drops, or pine-sap, bears its flowers 

 numerously and in a terminal raceme. From a dull ecru they vary in colour 

 to a tawny shade of red and are faintly fragrant. They, as well as the 

 stalks, are noticeably pubescent. Of the upper flowers their parts usually 

 are in fives, while the lower ones are divided in fours. 



THE HEATH FAMILY. 



Ej'icdcccE. 



Small trees, shrubs or herbs with simple, alternate or opposite exstip- 

 ttlate leaves, and ivhich bear perfectyinostly gamopetalous flowers, 



FLAME AZALEA. YELLOW HONEYSUCKLE. 



{Plate CXIX.) Frontispiece. 

 Azalea liitea. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Heath. Flame. Faintly fragrant. Georgia to New York. May,j7cne. 



Flowers: large; very showy in terminal clusters and appearing with the leaves. 

 Calyx: five-parted, minute, pubescent. Corolla: funnel-form, with five flaring 

 and pointed lobes, the tube and under parts being glandular-pubescent. Sta?netis: 

 five, much exserted, pubescent at the bases of their filaments. Pistil ; one. 

 Crt/j-«/t' ; linear-oblong; woolly. Zt'^zzrj-.- clustered at the ends of the branches; 



