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NATURE STUDY. 
The “Single Delight” 
BY M. CLARA HAWKES. 
This little plant is a dainty bit of life, belonging to the Can¬ 
adian flora, found (rarely) in the cool regions of New Hamp¬ 
shire, in the Adirondacks, in the Rocky Mountains, and as far 
north as Labrador and Alaska. 
It is known as Monesis uniflora. It is modest and retiring 
in its nature, not frequenting the wayside much, but choosing 
the quiet of tho woods “ far from the madding crowd .” Its 
height does not exceed four 
inches. Its white, waxy flower? 
one-half inch in diameter, 
droops gracefully, and it is by 
that only that the casual ob¬ 
server would see the plant, for 
the leaves are small and in¬ 
conspicuous. The stamens of 
the three or four specimens • 
found were arranged in a pe¬ 
culiar manner, not mentioned 
in the books. Some of the 
sz petals had three stamens op- 
' posite them, some had two, 
and some one only. It is not 
quite safe to state this as a 
peculiarity of the species, for it might have been due to some 
local cause not ascertained and as there were ‘no more speci¬ 
mens at hand it is mentioned merely as an interesting observation. 
The specimen illustrated grew on Bear Island, Lake Winni- 
piseogee, on a mossy bank in company with its its near rela¬ 
tive the Pyrola elliptica. It must have had remarkable vitality 
to survive the changes of the cold northern climate of bleak 
Labrador, depending as it does on but one flower for reproduc¬ 
tion, a habit not very common. 
