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foliage-leaves, the uppermost in those of scale-leaves (Fig. 21 B). 
Two bracteoles are seated at the base of each stalk (Fig. 21 A). 
The flowers are formed during the year previous to that in 
which they open, and pass the winter protected by foliage or 
by scale-leaves (Fig. 20 A, B, C). In structure the flowers 
resemble most closely those of Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi. The 
corolla is rose-red, roundly-urceolate, and 5-angled and turns 
its narrow throat downwards (Fig. 21 B); the calyx also is rose- 
coloured. The interior of the 
corolla is covered with erect, 
usually somewhat upturned hairs 
which extend to the margin of 
the limb (Fig. 21 C, D); its length 
is from 4 to 6°5 mm.; it con- 
tinues to grow during flowering. 
The relative length of the 
different parts of the flower is 
shewn in Fig. 21 C. The stigma 
is situated just at or imme- 
diately within the throat of the 
AA UE polifolia. corolla, and the anthers which 
4 Branch with terminal bud which encloses are at the level: of the mies 
flowers for the next year (Denmark; Ang. 5); 
slightly mag. 2, Pistil from this bud. C, Part 
of a flower shewing stamens and corolla of jnwards towards the style. The 
the same bud. (E. W.) 
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the pistil and the corolla, bend 
filaments are strongly swollen 
just above their slender, short bases, and are covered with 
fairly long hairs along the greater part of their length (Fig. 21 G). 
Here, as is often the case, they probably serve to retain the 
honey, secreted by the disk at the base of the ovary (Fig. 21 G). 
The anthers are covered with small protuberances (Fig. 21 E); 
they open at the apex by two pores of irregular shape. The 
two appendages are glabrous and slant upwards and outwards 
(Fig. 21 C, E, G). 
