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FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 



that it is worthy of its name, as it will surely delight the heart of its 

 finder. 



To this family also "belongs the prince's pine or pipsisscwa, which 

 is common in these mossy woods. It is a more rohust plant than 

 the pyrolas, with narrower oblanceolate leaves and an umbel of waxy 



Fig. 3. — Canada dogwood (Cornus canadensis). 



Color of flower, greenish white; height of plant, 3 to 8 inches; diameter of head, : < to 1 inch; blooms June 



to November. 



Photograph by A. H. Barnes. 



flowers. It is common through the United States and Canada. 

 Menzies's prince's pine is a much smaller plant with variegated leaves 

 and is restricted to the West. This, like most of its relatives, has 

 somewhat waxy flowers. In localities where the soil is poor the 

 salal, a plant which is nearly always present in the fir woods, is 

 abundant. It has leaves somewhat the shape of the trailing arbutus 



