APRIL 231 



Trailing Arbutus : The fragrance of the flower at 

 once betrays both to the insect and the botanist the store 

 of honey within. The inside of tlie corolla is densely 

 covered with fine, soft hairs, which serve to close its 

 tube, perhaps from the rain that would dilute the 

 honey, or, perhaps, from unwelcome visitors who would 

 pilfer from the flower its sweets, giving nothing in 

 return. 



On examining a number of different clusters, it will be 

 noticed that the smaller, less widely opened flowers are 

 the only ones which have the five long branches to the 

 stigma which make it look like a little star, and that 

 in these flowers the stamens are apt to be short and 

 without anthers. In the flowers in which the stigmas 

 are short the stamens are well developed. This looks 

 as if the floAvers were actually becoming unisexual, since, 

 if it continues on the road on which it has plainly started, 

 there will, eventually, be flowers with pistils only, and 

 other flowers with only stamens. 



It is one of the plants which has never been success- 

 fully transplanted. For this reason botanists have tried, 

 but failed, to find a trace of parasitic root connection. 



It belongs to the Heath family, in which are also found 

 the azalea, rhododendron, blueberry, huckleberry, winter- 

 green, and mountain laurel. 



Common Blue Violet : The flowers of the violet have 

 all of them something of the same markings that are to 

 be found in their cultivated cousin, the pansy. These all 

 lead to the spur, and are followed by insects in search of 

 honey. But there is very little nectar in the early violet, 

 although it is quite abundant in the pansy. 



The appendages of the two lower stamens project into 



