RED CAMPION AND WHITE. 29 



setting their seed. After long generations of 

 such unconscious selection, the white-petalled 

 individuals would establish themselves as a 

 permanent race ; though even to this day the 

 original pinkiness of their constitution has 

 not wholly died out. It reasserts itself from 

 time to time ; for you may often find scented 

 evening campions with very pale pink petals, 

 recalling the old type of the race, just as 

 amongst ourselves a particular bone, or tooth, 

 or eyebrow sometimes still recalls the ancient 

 anthropoid peculiarities. By somewhat the 

 same process the extra attraction of scent 

 must have been acquired. Even the date of 

 flowering has accommodated itself to the new 

 conditions, for the red campions are now all 

 coming into blossom and will soon be out in 

 every hedgerow, while the white ones do not 

 open for at least another fortnight. There 

 are plenty of butterflies now in the warm 

 sunshine at noon ; but the nights are still far 

 too chilly for moths to venture out as yet 

 from their comfortable cocoons. A white 



