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leaves, but she holds each one out at an angle from 

 the stem. The twigs of this evergreen suggest a 

 miniature pine-tree at first glance, but, of course, 

 the leaves are not needles in a sheath. Mrs. Ma- 

 genta Heather forms her blossoms like saucers and 

 crowds them together on the top of the stems. She 

 hangs the stamens quite prominently outside the 



corolla, and nothing 

 can pass her flower 

 cluster without knock- 

 i n g t h e 1 i 1 1 1 e an- 

 thers. The style also 

 protrudes, and it re- 

 mains on the seed-case 

 after the seeds are ma- 

 ture. 



Magenta Heather is 

 sometimes called Bryan- 

 thus, because of traits 

 similar to those of the 

 mosses. The botanical 

 name of the genus is 



MAGENTA HEATHER & 



Phyllodoce, from the 



Greek explaining the structure of its leaves. The 

 species is Breweri, in honor of William H. Brewer, 

 a botanist, who collected California wild flowers 

 from. 1860 to 1865. He was the first to collect scien- 



