WINTERGREEN FAMILY. Pyrolaceae. 
something between cream and pale-lemon in color. Ata 
distance the effect of the flowers is much more yellow than 
close by, but they are not so pretty as either the red or 
white heathers. 
There are several kinds of Cassiope, named for the 
mother of Andromeda, resembling Heather; the sepals four 
or five, without bracts at the base; the corolla bell-shaped, 
with four or five lobes; differing from Phyllodoce in capsule, 
form of corolla and filaments. 
This makes thick patches of many woody 
White Heath 
nin gaa stems, a few inches high, the twigs thickly 
Cassiope : 
Mertensiana clothed with odd-looking, small, dark 
White green leaves, overlapping like scales and 
Summer ridged on the back. The single flowers 
Northwest 
are white and waxy, resembling the bells 
of Lily-of-the-valley, often with red calyxes and pedicels, 
and are pretty and delicate, set off by the stiff, dark foliage. 
This grows in the highest mountains, at an altitude of ten 
thousand feet and above. 
WINTERGREEN FAMILY. Pyrolaceae. 
A small family, natives of the northern hemisphere; low, 
generally evergreen, perennials, with branched rootstocks; 
leaves with leaf-stalks; flowers perfect, nearly regular, 
white or pink; calyx with four or five lobes; corolla with 
four or five lobes, or five petals; stamens twice as many as 
the divisions of the corolla; ovary superior, stigma more or 
less five-lobed; fruit a capsule, with many minute seeds. _ 
: The only kind, much like Chimaphila, a 
Single Beauty ‘ : : 5 e 
Monases uniflora Charming little perennial, with a single 
White ~ flower-stalk, from two to six inches tall, 
Summer springing from a cluster of glossy, bright 
Northwest, etc. sreen leaves, with toothed edges, and 
bearing a single, lovely sweet-scented blossom, about 
three-quarters of an.inch across, with usually five sepals 
and five, spreading, waxy-white petals; the long, straight 
style, with a five-lobed stigma, projecting from the ovary, 
which forms a green hump in the center of the flower, 
surrounded by eight or ten stamens. This little flower 
modestly turns its face down to the ground and we have to 
pick it to find how very pretty it is. It grows in wet, 
northern mountain woods, across the continent. 
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