4 FLORA OF MOUNT BAINIEPi NATIONAL PARK. 



pipe, while the plant having only one flower is called the one-flowered. 

 Indian pipe. The one-flowered species grows in dense clusters, 

 while the other has not this tendency. 



The Allotropa, or barber's pole (fig. 2), is a beautiful red and white 

 striped plant confined to the forest of the Pacific coast. It is, per- 

 haps, the oddest of this strange group, because of its bright colors. 



The pine sap, Pterospora andromedea (fig. 2), may be recognized 

 by its reddish-brown stem, 3 or 4 feet high, without leaves, and by 

 the numerous globular flowers arranged along the upper part of the 

 stem. This plant, like the Indian pipe, has a wide range, extending 

 across the continent. Locally it extends from about 1,000 feet above 

 sea level to about 3,800 feet. The rarest of this leafless group is 

 Hemitomes conyestum (fig. 2). It is so rare that it has no common 

 name. Like the one-flowered Indian pipe, it grows in dense clusters. 

 The writer saw one bunch collected below the park entrance that 

 filled an ordinary milk pan. Not only do these plants grow in dense 

 masses but the flowers on each plant are also massed together, as the 

 specific name indicates. In its prime it is a beautiful rose-pink or 

 sometimes nearly white, but with age it turns black like nearly all 

 of the Indian pipe family. It extends from near sea level to an 

 altitude of about 3,200 feet. On the southeast slope of Mount 

 Angeles, near an old deserted cabin, the writer found the five species 

 shown on figure 2. The plants were collected and placed hurriedly 

 on an old table and photographed with the side of the log cabin for 

 a background. 



Closely related to this leafless group is the Pyrola or wintergreen 

 family, which is well represented and seems to be a connecting link 

 between the Indian pipe family and that of the heath or heather 

 family. In the old textbooks all three families are included in the 

 heath family. The name pyrola means a little pear, from the fact 

 that the thick shining evergreen leaves resemble those of a pear tree. 

 These species are easily recognized in the dense forest. Pyrola 

 secunda is known at once by its one-sided raceme of small greenish 

 flowers or seed-pods. The wintergreen of commerce is not obtained 

 from any of the western species, but from the false wintergreen or 

 checkerberry of the East. This plant is more abundant in the second 

 zone. Pyrola aphylla, as the specific name indicates without leaves, 

 has small bracts. Pyrola oracteata has rather large round or elliptical 

 leaves in a rosette with flowers in a raceme. This plant resembles 

 the eastern "shin-leaf." Still another, Pyrola picta, might be added. 

 This may be recognized by the white spots or streaks in its rather 

 long leaves. Moneses uniflora is a beautiful little plant of this small 

 family. It may be known from the pyrolas by its single waxy 

 flower. Its generic name signifies "delight." It is needless to add 



