SWEET WIXTERGREEN. 37 



These flowers are, for the most part, found hi rich woods, some 

 in low wet ground, but a few prefer the drier soil of piny forests, and 

 one of the finest and most fragrant of the species grows freely on 

 grassy uplands. The larger flowered P. rotmdifoUa (round-leaved 

 Pyrola). The exquisitely beautiful evergreen plant known by Cana- 

 dian settlers as Prince's Pine is a member of the family of Pyrola. 



From root to summit this plant is altogether lovely. The leaves 

 are dark, shining and smooth, evergreen and finely serrated ; the 

 stem of a bright rosy-red; the delicately pink-tinted flowers look as 

 if moulded from wax ; the anthers are of a bright amethyst-purple, 

 set round the emerald-green turbinated stigma. The flowers are not 

 many, but form a loose corymb springing from the centre of the 

 shining green leaves. There is scarcely a more attractive native 

 plant than the Ckimaphila umbellafa m our Canadian flora, 



Tne leaves of this beautiful Wintergreen are held in high 

 estimation by Indian herbalists who call it Rheumatism Weed, 

 (^Pi;piss€wa.) It is bitter and aromatic in quality. 



