WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
and slightly heart-shaped at the base, and tapering 
toward a rounding apex. Their texture is thin and 
stiff, but exceedingly tough. The margin is toothless 
and occasionally a little wavy. The flowers, which 
appear from April to July and frequently again during 
autumn, are singularly pretty and interesting, and 
one cannot help comparing them instinctively with 
those of the Trailing Arbutus. They are noticeably 
large for the size of the vine and its leaves, and as 
they always blossom in pairs, this appearance is more 
striking. They exhale an exquisite and refreshing 
fragrance, not unlike that of lilacs. The flowers are 
funnel-shaped with four spreading, recurved, petal- 
like points, the inner surface of which is covered with 
a fine white or light creamish white, cottony fuzz that 
fairly fills the throat of the stout, waxy corolla. The 
outer surface of the tube is shiny .and shades from 
white at its base to purple at the tips. The flower is 
half an inch long, and the tubes are often united, form- 
ing so-called double flowers. The little green calyxes 
of the twin flowers are united, and together they spring 
from the tip of the single terminal stem. The flowers 
are of two sorts. In one the stamens are very short 
and do not show, and the pistil is very long, extend- 
ing beyond the corolla, while in the other, these con- 
ditions are exactly reversed and the dark-tipped 
stamens protrude. There are four stamens attached 
to the throat of each flower, one each between the 
divisions thereof. The pistil has a four-pointed style. 
The fruit is small, oval, and berry-like, and when it is 
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