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in a way that you can easily see if you will 

 examine the flowers carefully. 



This Polygala is also of special interest because 

 it has two sorts of blossoms. Besides the large 

 showy flowers which are on the ends of the stems 

 there are small, whitish, inconspicuous ones near 



Photograph by A.H. 1'erril 



FRINGED POLYGALA 



the bases of the stems. These are what the 

 botanists call closed blossoms, never developing 

 completely so far as the petals are concerned, yet 

 producing seed in abundance. The species is also 

 sometimes called Flowering Wintergreen. 



