WINTERGREEN FAMILY. Pyrolaccac. 



There are a good many kinds of Pyrola; leaves mostly 

 from the root; flowers usually nodding, in clusters, with 

 bracted flower-stalks; sepals and petals five; stamens ten; 

 capsule roundish, five-lobed, cobwebby on the edges. 

 These plants are often called Shinleaf, because English 

 peasants used the leaves for plasters. Pyrola is from the 

 Latin for "pear," because of the resemblance of the leaves of 

 some kinds. The aromatic Wintergreen, or Checker-berry, 

 used for flavoring, is a Gaultheria, of the Heath Family. 



One of our most attractive woodland 

 Pyrola bracteata P lants f six to twenty inches tall, 

 Pink with handsome, glossy, rather leathery, 



Summer slightly scalloped leaves. The buds are 



deep reddish-pink and the flowers are 

 half an inch across, pink or pale pink, and waxy, with deep 

 pink stamens and a green pistil, with a conspicuous style, 

 curving down and the tip turning up. The pretty color 

 and odd shape of these flowers give them a character all their 

 own and they are sweet-scented. This is found in Yosemite 

 and in other cool, shady, moist places, and there are several 

 similar kinds. 



There are several kinds of Chimaphila, of North America 

 and Asia, with reclining stems and erect, leafy branches. 



A very attractive little evergreen plant, 

 Pipsissewa three to gix inches h - h ^^ d k 



Chimaphila ' 



Menzilsii gl ss y leathery, toothed, leaves, some- 



White times mottled with white, and one to three, 



Summer pretty flowers, about three-quarters of an 



Northwest and inch across with ye ll O wish sepals and 

 California , < 



waxy-white or pinkish petals, more or less 



turned back. The ovary forms a green hump in the center 

 and has a broad, flat, sticky stigma, with five scallops, and 

 the ten anthers are pale yellow or purplish. This has a 

 delicious fragrance, like Lily-of-the-valley, and grows in 

 pine woods in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges. 

 Chimaphila is a Greek name, meaning " winter-loving. " 



INDIAN PIPE FAMILY. Monotropaceae. 

 A small family, mostly North American; saprophytes, 

 (plants growing on decaying vegetable matter,) without 

 leaves; flowers perfect; calyx two- to six-parted; corolla unit- 

 ed or not, with three to six lobes or petals, occasionally lack- 



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