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what lobed disk below the ovary (Fig. 5 B, D). The hairs 
which occur at a corresponding height on the swollen part of 
the filaments (Fig. 5 £) may also serve to protect the honey. 
Some of the antipetalous stamens are often suppressed so 
that the stamens of the flowers vary in number from five to 
ten; and 4-merous corollas may occur together with 5-merous 
(Fig. 6 A, B, C). 
The stamens project beyond the corolla, and are widely 
spreading so that 
the anthers are at 
a distance from the 
stigma (Figs. 5, 6). 
They are generally 
bent downwards 
towards the front 
or lower side of 
the flower. The 
stamens have no 
appendages or 
other projections, 
but dehisce at the 
apex by two large 
Fig. 5. Rhododendron lapponicum pores (Figs. 5, 6). 
(From West Greenland). i 2 
A, Flower (2/1). 2, Another flower, front view (5/1). C, Stigma. The Ovary 1S 
D, Pistil (the style should not have been drawn thicker covered by peltate 
towards the apex). Z, Stamen. (E. W., 1885.) 
glandular hairs as 
is also the case with the leaves (Figs. 4, 5, D); evidently 
because assimilation takes place in it as in the latter. Generally 
the style is so long that the stigma stands at the same level 
as the anthers and cannot touch the latter when they bend 
inwards towards it (Fig. 5). But it may also happen that the 
stamens are half the length of the pistil (Fig. 6 L). 
At Godhavn I found flowers, the stamens of which were 
short and appeared to have smaller anthers which could scarcely 
