THE FLOWER AND THE BEE 



Fig. 98. Bimcliberry. Cormis canadensis 

 The small central flowers are rendered conspicuous by an involucre of four white leaves 



maximum and Kalmia latifolia, or mountain-laurel, the two 

 handsomest North American shrubs, "are seen to cover tracts 

 of great extent, at one season presenting an unbroken land- 

 scape of gorgeous flowers." They adorn the valleys all around, 

 says Asa Gray, in one of his letters, in immense abundance and 



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