
170 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
with anthers attached. horizontally to the flac Pi) ees aa 
ca bson fruit ; a capsule, which after flowering, erects itself. Leaves : Shite pe 
eight inches high. "aots; fibrous." * “ound Smoot waseeiaaaa 
Few plants are uncanny, and we therefore shiver slightly 
when we take hold of the ghost-flower, which is so clammy and 
white, It further annoys us by turning black and decomposing 
almost instantly after having been touched. Children and In- 
dians, whose nerves are perhaps more hardy than those of or- 
dinary mortals, delight in the plant. The former play with it, 
and the latter have some way of using it supposedly to 
strengthen the eyesight. 
The whiteness of the plant is owing to the absence of all 
chlorophyll grains, or green colouring matter ; and it may not 
be inappropriate to mention here that it is through the chemi- 
cal change of these grains that we have the varied tints of the 
autumn foliage. 
FALSE BEECH-DROPS. PINE SAP. (Plate LXXXIX) 
Hypépitys Hypédpitys. 
FAMILY , COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Indian-Pipe. Ecru or tawny, Fragrant. General. June, July. 
occasionally red. 
This is a closely allied plant to the Indian-pipe. The differ- 
ence between them is that the false beech-drops have more 
flowers. They grow in a one-sided raceme and their hue is 
variable. Both plants are conspicuous in the deep, cool woods 
of summer. 
WILD GINGER. 
Asarum Canadénse. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Birthroot. Yellowish, spotted Scentless. Throughout the April, May. 
with brown-purfple. northern states. 
Flowers: solitary ; growing towards the ground on a slender peduncle in the 
fork of the tall leaves. Culyx: bell-shaped; three-lobed; the lobes spread- 
ing; acute. Corol/a: none. Stamens: twelve. Pistil: one, with six spread-~ 
ing stigmas. rut: a fleshy capsule that bursts and scatters many seeds, 
