CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA-PMNCE'S PINE. 



LINN. CLASS, DECANDEIA ; ORDER, MONOGYNIA. 

 NATURAL ORDER, PYROLACE^E. 



The Prince's Pine or Bitter Wintergreen, as it is sometimes 

 called, flowers in July, remaining in bloom but a short time. 

 Its petals are of a delicate white wax-like hue, which contrast 

 beautifully with its richly variegated stamens and pistil, and 

 its deep green shining leaves make it one of the prettiest 

 flowers to be found in the wild woods. It delights in a dry 

 and wooded situation, and is found in abundance in the 

 neighborhood of the Hudson River. It grows from six to 

 eight inches in height, and is an evergreen plant. 



The calyx is five-parted ; petals five ; anthers beaked, with 

 two pores at the base before and at the top after the opening 

 of the flower ; style immersed ; stigma thick, orbiculate ; cap- 

 sule five-celled, dehiscent at the angles near the summit ; 

 leaves serrate, uniformly green, wedge lanceolate, with an acute 

 base ; scape corymbed ; filaments glabrous. 



