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Prince's Pine. Ghimouphila umhellata. 



Pipsissewa. 



Found in dry woods during July. 



The simple leafy stalk varies from 4 to 10 inches in height, and is 

 round, tough-fibred, and woody at the base. Color, green. 



The oblong leaf is widest toward the tip, and tapering toward the 

 base ; the margin is notched, the texture is fine, firm, and thick, with a 

 smooth and shining surface. The color is dark green, lighter beneath ; 

 it is evergreen. The leaves, on very short stems, grow in whorls of 5 

 (generally speaking), about the stalk. 



The flower has 5 rounded, concave, white petals, with a rose colored 

 ring marked in its center ; the 10 pinkish stamens are set around the 

 large, conical, green pistil, whose summit is flat and sticky ; the small 

 5-parted calyx is green. Several flowers, on short curving stems, grow 

 in a cluster, from the top of the flower-stem. 



Pipsissewa's seed-cases are interesting ; they are round and brown, 

 and, borne upright on the end of the slender stems, are truly decorative 

 in aspect, and with the shining green leaves remain unchanged by 

 winter's cold. In Maine the plant is called " Love-in- winter." 



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