UNFOLDING BUDS 51 



have not been cast off, as is usual with buds, but have 

 simply grown, that purple puckered tip so noticeable 

 in each of the mimic petals, being the identical hol- 

 low scale which formerly wrapped the cluster of flowers 

 at the centre, the white floral leaves being simply a con- 

 tinuance of their growth from beneath, having carried 

 them far from their original position, while the true 

 flowers at the centre now bloom and prepare for the 

 cluster of scarlet autumn berries. 



