168 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
grow together in the late season. They have, in common with 
the leaves, a pleasant taste and afford many a merry meal to 
animals and birds. When fate decrees that they shall blush 
unseen and no one comes by to pick them, they simply dry 
upon the stem until their innate wisdom tells them that the 
ground is ripe for sowing. ‘The seeds are then let loose and 
drop into the ground. The Indian knew that from this plant 
he could extract something to soothe his aching bones ; and the 
white man is now doing the same thing, as the oil of winter- 
green is considerably used for rheumatism. 
G. Shdllon, (Plate LXXXVI/J) is a small wintergreen shrub that 
is not very generally known, as it confines itself to the pine woods 
of the far west. It spreads gaily over the ground as théugh it 
had no other object in life than to make the air spicy and fresh. 
The waxy flowers grow in graceful racemes; and the glossy, 
ovate leaves appear to be the very essence of healthful vigour. 
SPICE-BUSH. BENJATIIN-BUSH. FEVER-=BUSH. 
Bénzoin Bénzo7zn. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Laurel. Greenish yellow. Spicy. Massachusetts south- March, Aprit. 
ward and westward. 
Flowers: both staminate and pistillate, witha four-leaved involucre under- 
neath; clustered along the branches and appearing before the leaves. Calyx: 
of six sepals. Covolia: none. Stamens: nine, n the sterile blossoms. Pistil- 
late flowers with a rounded ovary. Fruit : an oblong, red berry. Leaves : 
alternate; oblong; on short petioles; hairy along the margins and having an 
aromatic flavour. "A shrub four to fifteen feet high , with brittle branches. 
A valuable bush of the moist woods and thickets and one of 
the earliest to come into bloom. Its leaves and berries, as its 
name spice-bush implies, have often performed kindly services 
for housewives that live at a great distance from “the store.” *” 

INDIAN-PIPE. GHOST FLOWER. CORPSE PLANT. i 
(Plate LXX XIX.) 
Monétropa unifiora. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Indian-Pipe. White. Scentless. General. June, July. 
Flowers : terminal; solitary ; nodding ; in fruit erect. Ca/yx : of two to four 
