WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



and slightly heart-shaped at the base, and tapering 

 toward a rounding apex. Their texture is thin and 

 stiff, but exceedingly tough. The margin is toothless 

 and occasionally a little wavy. The flowers, which 

 appear from April to July and frequently again during 

 autumn, are singularly pretty and interesting, and 

 one cannot help comparing them instinctively with 

 those of the Trailing Arbutus. They are noticeably 

 large for the size of the vine and its leaves, and as 

 they always blossom in pairs, this appearance is more 

 striking. They exhale an exquisite and refreshing 

 fragrance, not unlike that of lilacs. The flowers are 

 funnel-shaped with four spreading, recurved, petal- 

 like points, the inner surface of which is covered with 

 a fine white or light creamish white, cottony fuzz that 

 fairly fills the throat of the stout, waxy corolla. The 

 outer surface of the tube is shiny and shades from 

 white at its base to purple at the tips. The flower is 

 half an inch long, and the tubes are often united, form- 

 ing so-called double flowers. The little green calyxes 

 of the twin flowers are united, and together they spring 

 from the tip of the single terminal stem. The flowers 

 are of two sorts. In one the stamens are very short 

 and do not show, and the pistil is very long, extend- 

 ing beyond the corolla, while in the other, these con- 

 ditions are exactly reversed and the dark- tipped 

 stamens protrude. There are four stamens attached 

 to the throat of each flower, one each between the 

 divisions thereof. The pistil has a four-pointed style. 

 The fruit is small, oval, and berry-like, and when it is 



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