WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
succeed the flowers, and form a stiff, crowded bunch 
that is very attractive and decorative. They are said 
to be edible, and to woodland campers they are a most 
familiar sightin the autumn. This species is very com- 
mon in cool, moist woods from Newfoundland to Alaska, 
New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Colorado, 
and California, where it is found blooming during May, 
June and July. 
ONE-FLOWERED WINTERGREEN 
Monéses uniflra. Wintergreen Family. 
This quaint little solitary-flowered denizen of our 
northern woods is often mistaken for a Pyrola. The 
slender stalk is acutely recurved, somewhat like a 
question mark, and, indeed, when one sees for the first 
time so large a flower on such a little plant, the sur- 
prise is apparently mutual, for it seems to say: “Well, 
what are you staring at?” The stalk terminates a 
creeping underground shoot, and is beset with a clus- 
ter of thin, veiny, shiny, rounding, dark green leaves 
which have finely toothed margins and slender stems. 
The five-petalled, white or pinkish, waxy flower is 
fragrant, and has ten white, yellow-tipped, widely 
spreading stamens and a prominent, green, club-shaped 
pistil. It nods or droops from the tip of the curved 
stalk, and the anthers are noticeably large. The 
stem becomes erect after the petals fall. It grows 
from two to six inches high along banks of streams 
and under pine trees in deep, cool woods, from June 
to August. It ranges from Labrador to Alaska, and 
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