WINTERQREEN FAMILY. Pyrolaceae. 



There are a good many kinds of Pyrola; leaves mosth 

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

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

 capsule roundish, five-lobed, cobwebby on the edges 

 These plants are often called Shinleaf, because Englisl 

 peasants used the leaves for plasters. Pyrola is from thi 

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

 some kinds. The aromatic Wintergreen, or Checker-berry 

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



One of our most attractive woodlam 

 Pyrola 1 



Pyrola bracteata P lants from six to twenty inches tall 

 Pink with handsome, glossy, rather leathery 



Summer slightly scalloped leaves. The buds ar< 



deep reddish-pink and the flowers ar 

 half an inch across, pink or pale pink, and waxy, with dee] 

 pink stamens and a green pistil, with a conspicuous style 

 curving down and the tip turning up. The pretty colo 

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

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

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

 similar kinds. 



There are several kinds of Chimaphila, of North Ameria 

 and Asia, with reclining stems and erect, leafy branches 

 A very attractive little evergreen plant 

 Pipsissewa three to gix j nc h es high, with dark green 



Chimaphila , . , 111 



Menzilsii g loss y, leathery, toothed, leaves, some 



White times mottled with white, and one to three 



Summer pretty flowers, about three-quarters of ai 



Northwest and inch across ^^ yellowish sepals an< 

 California , ., . , . , , , 



waxy-white or pinkish petals, more or les 



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

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

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

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

 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,) withou 

 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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