90 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 
to ten inches high. Both of these species are 
parasites upon the roots of trees, which accounts 
for their lack of the green coloring matter, called 
chlorophyll, which is characteristic of plants that 
get their own living from the earth and air. 
Look! white Indian pipes 
On the green mosses lie! 
Who has been smoking 
Profanely so nigh? 
Rebuked by the preacher 
The mischief is stopped, 
But the sinners, in haste, 
Have their little pipes dropped. 
Let the wind, with the fragrance 
Of fern and black birch, 
Blow the smell of the smoking 
Clean out of the church! 
Clara Smith. 
