This boldly curved crook of the flower-stem is completely straightened when the petals fall,--the seed-box is held upright. Like most of its tribe this is a gregarious little plant, and grows in plantations. [Illustration: ONE-FLOWERED PYROLA: Moneses grandiflora.] *Prince’s Pine.* _Chimaphila umbellata._ *Pipsissewa.* Found in dry woods during July. The simple leafy stalk varies from 4 to 10 inches in height, and is round, tough-fibred, and woody at the base. Color, green. The oblong leaf is widest toward the tip, and tapering toward the base; the margin is notched, the texture is fine, firm, and thick, with a smooth and shining surface. The color is dark green, lighter beneath; it is evergreen. The leaves, on very short stems, grow in whorls of 5 (generally speaking), about the stalk. The flower has 5 rounded, concave, white petals, with a rose colored ring marked in its center; the 10 pinkish stamens are set around the large, conical, green pistil, whose summit is flat and sticky; the small 5-parted calyx is green. Several flowers, on short curving stems, grow in a cluster, from the top of the flower-stem. Pipsissewa’s seed-cases are interesting; they are round and brown, and, borne upright on the end of the slender stems, are truly decorative in aspect, and with the shining green leaves remain unchanged by winter’s cold. In Maine the plant is called “Love-in-winter.” [Illustration: PRINCE’S PINE: Chimaphila umbellata.] *Spotted Wintergreen.* _Chimaphila maculata._ Found in dry woods, commonly under evergreen trees, in July. The dull red, tough stem, 5 or 6 inches in height, bears one or two whorls of leaves. The leaves, about 2 inches long, are tapering at the tip, with a few small notches on the margin; they are thick, and leathery, with a smooth surface, and are set in whorls of 4 or 5 on short foot-stems. In color, dark green, with the ribs marked out by broad lines of light. In general form, the flower is much like that of the Pipsissewa. The petals are white, the stamens pale cream, and the pistil green. This form of the Pipsissewa is less common in the New England than in the Middle States. Its variegated leaves are a pleasing, somewhat rare note in our winter leafage. [Illustration: SPOTTED WINTERGREEN: C. maculata.] *Wintergreen.* _Gaultheria procumbens._ Found during July in woods, and along the edges of woods. The creeping stalk sends up an erect stem, leafy at the top, about 4 or 5 inches high, woody-fibred and tough, and smooth to the touch. Its color is green,--red toward the root. The leaf is a broad oval, with a rounded tip, an obscurely notched margin, of a tough and thick fibre, and smooth, polished surface. It is evergreen: when old a dark green, often bronzy; more yellow-green, tinged with dull red, when young. The alternate leaves, on very short stems, are clustered at the top of the stalk.