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(Fig. 8 В) are not fragrant, but they bloom a very long time. 

 The corolla is brilliantly coloured, rose-red or crimson. The 

 Greenland and Scandinavian specimens (Fig. 9 ^) — as also 

 those from Switzerland, according to H. Müller — are from 

 4 6 to 6 mm. in diameter. I have seen specimens from the 

 north of Sweden measuring as much as 7 to 8 mm. in diameter 

 (Fig. 9 F). 



The corolla falls off without carrying the stamens with it. 



In Greenland the flower is at first protogynous for a short 

 lime, and then a long homogamous period ensues. This is also 



Fig. 9. Loiseleuria procumbens. (From West Greenland.) 



A, Flower seen from above. B, Stamen ('"/i). C, Pistil in longitudinal section, and a 



stamen (w/i). D, Pollen tetrad, ß, Anther seen from the dorsal side (^^li). F, GutHne of 



a corolla. (E. W., 1885.) 



the case in Scandinavia, Nova Zembia, and in the Alps (Warming, 

 LiNDMAN, Ekstam, Ricca, aud H. Mijller). According to Lindman 

 the female stage begins even in the bud. In Italy the flower is, 

 according to Ricca, markedly protogynous. 



H. Müller is of opinion that spontaneous self-pollination can 

 only occur when the flowers close in unfavourable weather, or 

 remain closed, for under other conditions the anthers are too far 

 from the stigma (Fig. 9 A). In Greenland the weather appears to 

 have very little influence on the flower as the stamens in rainy 

 weather at most curve perhaps slightly more inwards towards the 



