Wild flowers and where they grow . , and the larger one of the same genus, which hasthe twisted name of perfoliate, from a worse twist there isabout the setting of the green leaves, which are woundabout the stem, and there transfixed by it in a fashion asdifficult as it is to all appearance needless. There waspipsissiway, or princes pine, with its shining thick leaves,and in June the reddish-white fragrant flowers. We usedto call it •toothache root and ^rheumatism weed — Isuppose from some old womans notion. Then there was thebeautiful sort of first cousin to it, the pyrola (or pear win-tergre
Wild flowers and where they grow . , and the larger one of the same genus, which hasthe twisted name of perfoliate, from a worse twist there isabout the setting of the green leaves, which are woundabout the stem, and there transfixed by it in a fashion asdifficult as it is to all appearance needless. There waspipsissiway, or princes pine, with its shining thick leaves,and in June the reddish-white fragrant flowers. We usedto call it •toothache root and ^rheumatism weed — Isuppose from some old womans notion. Then there was thebeautiful sort of first cousin to it, the pyrola (or pear win-tergreen, from the likeness of the leaves to those of ayoung pear-tree), specified as rotundifol(u and which has aspike of such delicious flowers. Their fragrance is finer than THE NOR WA Y PINES. 95 hyacinth, and the hue of the crimpedwaxen cups is creamy as tuberose;and when it is pressed and putaway in a herbarium, it changes tothe richest burnt brown. Besides that, therewas another of thesame tribe, with fewercups, and not quite. so pretty. There were also five kinds of what we sometimes called groum and some times club moss. When we came to these,things were a good deal mixed. We were greatly 96 WILD FLOWERS. in doubt. One was like cords of chenille : one grew stiffand bristling clear into the water : one was like a Lil-iputian evergreen tree, standing solitary; one was the gen-uine ••festoon ground-pine. of which Christmas garlands aremade : and the fifth was like the green skeleton of it, amere outline. THE MEDEOLA. This was the Indian cucumber-root. We were accustomedto see it in all similar woods, growing up from a bed of lastyears dry oak leaves. After we had learned the name, wedid not rest until we had investigated with reference to thecucumber, and found it even so — a small, white, juicy, cleanand very whole some-looking root, enough like the edible itwas named for, to be wholly satisfactory. The flower is alittle greenish-white lily, with petals curving backw
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