THE FLOWER AND THE BEE 



Fig. 98. Bunchberry. Cornns canadensis 

 The small central flowers are rendered conspicuous by an involucre of four white leaves 



maximum and Kalmia latifolia, or mount ain-laurel, the two 

 handsomest North American shrubs, "are seen to cover tracts 

 of great extent, at one season presenting an unbroken land- 

 scape of gorgeous flowers." They adorn the valleys all around, 

 says Asa Gray, in one of his letters, in immense abundance and 



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