HEATH FAMILY 
( Ericacece ) 
(A) Spotted Wintergreen {Chimaphila maculata) 
is a very handsome plant that we often come across in 
our rambles through rich woodland. The stalk, rising 
from 3 to 9 inches high, is of a ruddy color; the leaves 
are thick, smooth, irregularly toothed, lance-shaped, 
pointed and with conspicuous whitish streaks following 
the veins. In July and August, it bears one to five 
nodding flowers on long, erect peduncles above the top¬ 
most whorl of leaves It ranges from Me., Ontario and 
Minn, southward to Ga. and Miss. 
(B) Pipsissewa; Prince’s Pine (Chimaphila umbel- 
lata) grows in similar localities and is generally more 
common than the last. Its leaves are usually in two 
whorls about the brownish stem; they are bright shin¬ 
ing green, toothed, unspotted, pointed, but broadened 
towards the end. The flowers are similar to the last 
and are in a loose 2 to 8-flowered umbel. The style is 
very short, with a 5-parted gummy stigma. This spe¬ 
cies is found from N. S. to Ga. and westward. 
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