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(Fig. 8 B) are not fragrant, but they bloom a very long time. 
The corolla is brilliantly coloured, rose-red or crimson. The 
Greenland and Scandinavian specimens (Fig. 9 4) — as also 
those from Switzerland, according to H. Mi:rer — are from 
4°5 to 6 mm. in diameter. I have seen specimens from the 
north of Sweden measuring as much as 7 to 8mm. in diameter 
(Fig. 9 F). 
The corolla falls off without carrying the stamens with it. 
In Greenland the flower is at first protogynous for a short 
time, and then a long homogamous period ensues. This is also 
Fig. 9. Loiseleuria procumbens. (From West Greenland.) 
A, Flower seen from above. 3, Stamen (1/1). C, Pistil in longitudinal section, and a 
stamen (1/:1).] D, Pollen tetrad. Z, Anther seen from the dorsal side (26/1). £, Outline of 
a corolla. (E. W., 1885.) 
the case in Scandinavia, Nova Zembla, and in the Alps (Warming, 
Linpmay, Exstam, Ricca, and H. Müzrer). According to Linpman 
the female stage begins even in the bud. In Italy the flower is, 
according to Ricca, markedly protogynous. 
H. Mürrer is of opinion that spontaneous self-pollination can 
only occur when the flowers close in unfavourable weather, or 
remain closed, for under other conditions the anthers are too far 
from the stigma (Fig. 9 A). In Greenland the weather appears to 
have very little influence on the flower as the stamens in rainy 
weather at most curve perhaps slightly more inwards towards the 
