SMALL PYROLA 



Pyrola minor Linnaeus 



The small pyrola delights in wet places. We find it flourishing in 

 bogs or on oozing stream banks, usually in densely shaded situations. 

 Flowering in midsummer, its rosy pink saucers lend a touch of color 

 to its otherwise dull surroundings. The flowers vary greatly in depth 

 of color, and occasionally they are white. They are smaller and fewer 

 than those of the bog pyrola, which is a species more generally dis- 

 tributed and locally more abundant. 



The small pyrola has a wide range in the colder parts of North 

 America, extending from Massachusetts to Colorado and California, 

 and northward to the Arctic regions. It grows also in Europe and Asia. 



The specimen sketched was obtained in the valley of the Pipestone 

 River, about ten miles by trail north of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 

 at an altitude of 4,500 feet. 



PLATE I72. 



