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 01 

 white heathers. 



There are several kinds of Cassiope, named for th( 

 mother of Andromeda, resembling Heather; the sepals foui 

 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 wood\ 

 White Heather . ^. 



Cassiope stems, a few inches high, the twigs thicklj 



Mertenstina clothed with odd-looking, small, darl 



White green leaves, overlapping like scales anc 



Summer ridged on the back. The single flower 



Northwest 



are white and waxy, resembling the belli 



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 tei 

 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 witl 

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

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

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



The only kind, much like Chimaphila, { 

 charming little perennial, with a singl< 

 White flower-stalk, from two to six inches tall 



Summer springing from a cluster of glossy, brigh 



Northwest, etc. green leaves> w i t h toothed edges, am 



bearing a single, lovely sweet-scented blossom, abou 

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

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

 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 flowe 

 modestly turns its face down to the ground and we have t< 

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

 northern mountain * woods, across the continent. 

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