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The Mountain 

 Laurel's Embrace 



Let us now look at 

 the Heath family. The 

 family of the heath, cran- 

 berry, pyrola, Androm- 

 eda, and mountain-laurel — how do these blossoms 

 welcome their insect friends ? This group is par- 

 ticularly distinguished by the unusual exception in 

 the form of its anthers, which open by pores at their 

 tips, instead of the ordinary side fissures. Two or 



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