SWEET WINTERGREEN. 
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These flowers are, for the most part, found in rich woods, some 
in low wet ground, but a few prefer the drier soil of piny forests, and 
one of the finest and most fragrant of the species grows freely on 
grassy uplands. The larger flowered P. rotundifolia (round-leaved 
Pyrola). The exquisitely beautiful evergreen plant known by Cana¬ 
dian settlers as Prince's Pine is a member of the family of Pyrola. 
From root to summit this plant is altogether lovely. The leaves 
are dark, shining and smooth, evergreen and finely serrated; the 
stem of a bright rosy-red ; the delicately pink-tinted flowers look as 
if moulded from wax ; the anthers are of a bright amethyst-purple, 
set round the emerald-green turbinated stigma. The flowers are not 
many, but form a loose corymb springing from the centre of the 
shining green leaves. There is scarcely a more attractive native 
plant than the Chiniapliila umbellata in our Canadian flora. 
The leaves of this beautiful Wintergreen are held in high 
estimation by the Indian herbalists who call it Rheumatism Weed, 
( Pijpissewa .) It is bitter and aromatic in quality. 
