148 FLAVORING AND BEVEUAGE PLANTS 



Flu. 146, II. — Peppermint. Flowers, enlarged atrout five tiiucs, showing the 

 two sizes often present. (Baillon.) 



Fig. 147. — Wintcrgrecn (Gaultheria procumbcns, Heath Family, Ericacecr). 

 Plant in flower and fruit, reduced. Corolla with attaehed stamens 

 spread out. Pod, rut across. (Britton and Brown.) — An undershrub 

 growing about .^-l.O cm. tall; leaves evergreen; flowers white; fruit 

 bright red, consisting of the fleshy aromatic calyx enclosing a dry pod. 

 Native home, North America. 



