WINTERQREEN FAMILY. Pyrolaceae. 



something between cream and pale-lemon in color. At a 

 distance the effect of the flowers is much more yellow than 

 close by, but they are not so pretty as either the red or 

 white heathers. 



There are several kinds of Cassiope, named for the 

 mother of Andromeda, resembling Heather; the sepals four 

 or five, without bracts at the base; the corolla bell-shaped, 

 with four or five lobes; differing from Phyllodoce in capsule, 

 form of corolla and filaments. 



This makes thick patches of many woody 

 White Heather 

 Cassiope stems, a few inches high, the twigs thickly 



Menensihna clothed with odd-looking, small, dark 



White green leaves, overlapping like scales and 



Summer ridged on the back. The single flowers 



Northwest b 



are white and waxy, resembling the bells 



of Lily-of- the- valley, often with red calyxes and pedicels, 

 and are pretty and delicate, set off by the stiff, dark foliage. 

 This grows in the highest mountains, at an altitude of ten 

 thousand feet and above. 



WINTERGREEN FAMILY. Pyrolaceae. 



A small family, natives of the northern hemisphere; low, 

 generally evergreen, perennials, with branched rootstocks; 

 leaves with leaf-stalks; flowers perfect, nearly regular, 

 white or pink; calyx with four or five lobes; corolla with 

 four or five lobes, or five petals; stamens twice as many as 

 the divisions of the corolla ; ovary superior, stigma more or 

 less five-lobed; fruit a capsule, with many minute seeds. 



The only kind, much like Chimaphila, a 

 Single Beauty . * . ' 



Monies unifldra charming little perennial, with a single 

 White flower-stalk, from two to six inches tall, 



Summer springing from a cluster of glossy, bright 



Northwest, etc. green leayes> w{th toothed edges> and 



bearing a single, lovely sweet-scented blossom, about 

 three-quarters of an inch across, with usually five sepals 

 and five, spreading, waxy- white petals; the long, straight 

 style, with a five-lobed stigma, projecting from the ovary, 

 which forms a green hump in the center of the flower, 

 surrounded by eight or ten stamens. This little flower 

 modestly turns its face down to the ground and We have to 

 pick it to find how very pretty it is. It grows in wet, 

 northern mountain woods, across the continent. 

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