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  • The grape vine, the sassafras, the Virginia creeper mingle green and crimson together, the beautiful bunches of coral berries of the bittersweet are daily growing a mellower red, and deep in the woods the exquisite fairy-like Indian-pipe is heavy with great bunches of shining pearls mounted on waxlike stems.

    My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

  • That ghost-like plant, the Indian-pipe, is in flower, and quite common here – sometimes growing singly, more frequently several together.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • But another glance showd him that they were sprays and wild flowers of various sorts, with gay mosses and fungi and some stems of Indian-pipe.

    The Landlord at Lion's Head — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878

  • But another glance showd him that they were sprays and wild flowers of various sorts, with gay mosses and fungi and some stems of Indian-pipe.

    The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • Indian-pipe (_Monotropa uniflora_), and pine-sap (_M.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

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