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air on long stalks (Fig. 10). The violet-purple, urceolate 
corollas, which are covered with red glandular hairs, usually 
turn their throats downwards (Figs. 10, 12). I have found the 
flowers to be scentless (Bessers mentions them as fragrant). 
They are 9 to 11 mm. in length. 
The flower is protogynous for a short time (Greenland and 
Finmark), and then becomes homogamous (as also observed by 
Linpman and Exstam). Even in the bud, while the anthers are still 
Fig. 12. Phyllodoce coerulea (Bryanthus coeruleus). From West Greenland, 
A, A young flower which has just expanded; only two of the anthers have opened: pollen 
already seen upon the stigma (July 6, 1884). B, A flower the anther and stigma of which 
are at the same level. €, A third flower, also young, newly expanded, in which, as in 2, 
the pores and stigma occur at the same height, 1/3 to */3 that of the corolla; the anthers are 
full of pollen: only the long stamens are open; quantities of pollen occur upon the stigma. 
D, The same flower as C, seen from above; the glandular hairs are omitted. Z, The pistil 
and the nectary seen from above. 7, Anther. G, Pollen tetrad. 47, Base of the flower- 
stalk with the two bracteoles. (E. W., 1885.) 
closed, the five-lobed stigma (Fig. 12 E) is glistening and viscid; 
but immediately upon the slight expansion of the corolla the 
anthers on the longest stamens may be found to have dehisced 
and the pollen-tetrads (Fig. 12 G) to have been shed upon the 
stigma. There are two elongated pores at the apex of the 
anthers (as shewn in Fig. 12 F) which have no appendages. 
The pollen may be so dry and may lie so loosely in the 
anthers that when the flowers are shaken slightly it flies out 
