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in a way that you can easily see if you will 
examine the flowers carefully. 
This Polygala is also of special interest because 
it has two sorts of blossoms. Besides the large 
showy flowers which are on the ends of the stems 
there are small, whitish, inconspicuous ones near 
FRINGED POLYGALA 
the bases of the stems. These are what the 
botanists call closed blossoms, never developing 
completely so far as the petals are concerned, yet 
producing seed in abundance. ‘The species is also 
sometimes called Flowering Wintergreen. 
