'Oechalian women') were transformed into trees by the nymphs when they revealed the fate of a disappeared priestess.
After Dryope married Andraemon and gave birth to Apollo's son Amphissus, she and her husband erected a temple to Apollo, where Dryope served as a priestess.
One day the nymphs took Dryope with them and left a poplar tree in her place.
Two virgin women of the town told the rest that the nymphs had seized Dryope; the nymphs in anger turned them both into fir trees.
[a] This was supposedly why women were not allowed in the foot-race in honour of Apollo at Oechalia.