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pistil. During rain the flowers may be filled with water. But judging 
from Miller's figure, the anthers in the Greenland and the 
Scandinavian specimens appear on the whole to stand closer 
to the pistil than in the Alpine specimens; sometimes even 
they are in direct contact with it (Fig. 9 A); the stamens are 
more erect than those in the plants from Central Europe, or 
they may even be curved inward; so that spontaneous self-pol- 
lination is inevitable. Linoman also mentions movements of varia- 
tion and self-pollination, but Exsram did not observe any such 
movements, he even refers it to ‘‘Alpenpflanzen bei denen 
immer die Narben mit dem Blütenstaube der eigenen Staub- 
beutel bestreuet auftraten.” 
In Greenland, honey is secreted abundantly by the ring- 
shaped, lobed nectary at the base of the ovary (Fig. 8 A). 
In Greenland I have seen small flies in the flowers; ‘at 
the top, near the region of snow” Wormsxion observed a 
butterfly sucking at one of the flowers, so cross-pollination 
appears sometimes to take place. 
The fruit ripens in East and West Greenland and in Fin- 
mark. But the fruit formed does not always ripen the year 
the plant flowers, in which case it appears to perish. After 
the corolla has fallen off the calyx closes round the ovary. 
Phyllodoce coerulea (L.) Gren. & Godr. 
Phyllodoce taxifolia Salisb. Bryanthus coeruleus (L.) Dippel. 
Warming, 1885, p.170, figs. 3, 4; p. 203; 1886a, p.19. LinpMay, 
1887, p. 72, tab. IV, fig. 39. Exsram, 1897, p. 428. A. Creve, 1901, 
p. 43. Sxorrsperc, 1901, p. 12. Poppivs, 1903, p. 43. Hacrunr, 
1905, p.13. Syzvéx, 1906, p. 132. 
Material from Greenland, Norway (Finmark) and Sweden. 
An evergreen dwarf shrub; the branches are more or less 
prostrate and produce slender roots, generally few in number; 
according to Haczunn they occur abundantly on damp soil. 
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