CHIMAPHILA AND PYROLA 



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some have such beauty of evergreen foliage and of blossom as to induce 

 me to mention and figure them. The one with the most beautiful foliage 



Fig. 4G0. — Southern Buckthorn. 



Fig. 461. — Oleander. 



is the Spotted Wintergreen (454) — Chimaphila maculata, — with 

 notched dark green leaves mottled with white along the veins. A slightly 

 taller plant with similar flowers but 

 with unmottled bright green leaves 

 is the PiPsissEWA (455) — Chima- 

 phila umbellata. Still other winter- 

 greens are occasionally cultivated 

 belonging to the genus Pyrola ; 

 they are practically stemless plants 

 with clusters of nodding flowers 

 on stalks 4 to 20 inches tall. All 

 form 5-valved many-seeded pods. 

 Two of these Pyrola wintergreens 

 worthy of mention are Round- 

 leaved Wintergreen — Pyrola 

 americana — and Greenish-flow- 

 ered Wintergreen (456) — Pyrola 

 chlorantha. The Pyrolas and Chi- 

 maphilas are difficult to cultivate 

 and succeed only in shady places 

 in peaty soil. When removing Fig. 462. — Sweet-scented Oleander. 



