WINTERGREEN FAMILY. Pyrolaceae. 
There are a good many kinds of Pyrola; leaves mostly 
from the root; flowers usually nodding, in clusters, with 
bracted flower-stalks; sepals and petals five; stamens ten; 
capsule roundish, five-lobed, cobwebby on the «edges. 
These plants are often called Shinleaf, because English 
peasants used the leaves for plasters. Pyrola is from the 
Latin for ‘‘pear,”’ because of the resemblance of the leaves of 
some kinds. The aromatic Wintergreen, or Checker-berry, 
used for flavoring, is a Gaultheria, of the Heath Family. 
One of our most attractive woodland 
Pyrola ; - 
Pyrola bracteata Plants, from six to twenty inches tall, 
Pink with handsome, glossy, rather leathery, 
Summer slightly scalloped leaves. The buds are 
California 
deep reddish-pink and the flowers are 
half an inch across, pink or pale pink, and waxy, with deep 
pink stamens and a green pistil, with a conspicuous style, 
curving down and the tip turning up. The pretty color 
and odd shape of these flowers give them a character all their 
own and they are sweet-scented. Thisis found in Yosemite 
and in other cool, shady, moist places, and there are several 
similar kinds. } 
There are several kinds of Chimaphila, of North America 
and Asia, with reclining stems and erect, leafy branches. 
A very attractive little evergreen plant, 
nents three to six inches high, with dark green, 
Mee eises glossy, leathery, toothed, leaves, some- 
White times mottled with white, and one to three, 
naa pretty flowers, about three-quarters of an 
Northwest and 
in cro ith yellowish sepals and 
California inch across, w y h an 
waxy-white or pinkish petals, more or less 
turned back. The ovary forms a green hump in the center 
and has a broad, flat, sticky stigma, with five scallops, and 
the ten anthers are pale yellow or purplish. This has a 
delicious fragrance, like Lily-of-the-valley, and grows in 
pine woods in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges. 
Chimaphila is a Greek name, meaning ‘‘ winter-loving.”’ 
INDIAN PIPE FAMILY. Monotropaceae. 
A small family, mostly North American; saprophytes, 
(plants growing on decaying vegetable matter,) without 
leaves; flowers perfect; calyx two- to six-parted; corolla unit- 
ed or not, with three to six lobes or petals, occasionally lack- 
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