0 FLORA OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 
that it is worthy of its name, as it will surely delight the heart of its 
finder. . . 
To this family also belongs the prince’s pine or pipsissewa, which 
is common in these mossy woods. It is a more robust plant than 
the pyrolas, with narrower oblanceolate leaves and an umbel of waxy 
Fig. 3.—Canada dogwood (Cornus canadensis). 
Color of flower, greenish white; height of plant, 3 to 8 inches; diameter of head, ^ to 1 inch; blooms June 
to November. 
Photograph by A. H. Barnes. 
flowers. It is common through the United States and Canada. 
Menzies’s prince’s pine is a much smaller plant with variegated leaves 
and is restricted to the West. This, like most of its relatives, has 
somewhat waxy flowers. In localities where the soil is poor the 
salal, a plant which is nearly always present in the fir woods, is 
abundant. It has leaves somewhat the shape of the trailing arbutus 
