
206 PLANTS GROWING IN LIGHT SOIL. 
PIPSISSEWA. PRINCE’S PINE. 
Chimaphila umbellata, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE “TIME OF BLOOM 
Heath. Flesh colour, tinged with Fragrant. Northeast to Ga., west- June, July. 
crimson; green centre. ward to the Pacific. 
Flowers: nodding 3 usually three in a loose cluster. Calyx: of five green 
lobes. Corol/a: of five round, concave petals with a crimson ring of colour 
at the base. Stamens: ten, with violet anthers. /7sti/: one; stigma, five- 
rayed. Leaves: numerous, whorled, or scattered along the stem; lanceolate; 
toothed; evergreen. Stem: about six inches high. 
In a crowd we might easily pass by the pipsissewa, but once 
having turned aside to look at it, we should be sure to linger 
for a better acquaintance. It is one of the prettiest of the 
fragile blossoms that grow in the open woods. The name 
pipsissewa is also full of charm and conjures up all the romance 
that has ever clustered about the red man. He knew undoubt- 
edly of the plant’s medicinal properties. 
C. maculata, Plate CVII, is a species of pipsissewa that 
grows abundantly in Eastern North America and is com- 
monly called spotted pipsissewa. It blooms a little earlier in 
the season than the preceding variety and if possible is a 
sweeter flower. The leaves are lined beautifully with white. 
It is also fragrant. 
SPRING BEAUTY. 
Claytonta Virginica. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Pulsane. White or pink Scentless. New England south- March-May. 
vetnedwith a ward to Georgia 
deeper shade, and westward. 
Flowers: afew growing in loose, terminal racemes. Calyx: of two ovate 
sepals. Corolla: of five petals, slightly united at the base. Stamens: five. 
Pistil : one; style, three-lobed. eaves: opposite; linear; narrowing into a 
petiole and varying greatly in breadth. Stem: erect or reclining; rarely 
branched. oot: tuberous. 
We should never be tired of reminding ourselves that plants 
are not all formed after the same plan. They are as human 
beings, and we seldom find among them one that has not some 
interesting characteristic. Although general laws may be said 

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