No. 43S.] A'O/r/V/AAW C.UfO/'FFlLOFS FLOWERS. 



white, 11 red. and 2 green. The primitive color of t 

 seems to have been green, as it is still greenish, greet 

 greenish-pink, or yellowish-green in the genus Yaccinii 

 flowers are bell-shaped and the pollinators are bees"* I 

 vanicum (the common blueberry) is white often tinge< 

 on the side exposed to direct sunlight. At the time of 

 in spring the leaves are reddish, and patches of these 

 a hillside are visible at a long distance. The flowers 1 

 sacia "esinosa, or the huckleberry, are red. and the en 

 exhibits a marked tendency to develop red colorati 

 floral bracts and stems are reddish, and the leaves wl 

 by a gall-fly turn a deep red. while the brilliant crirn. 



besides several butterflies. If the 

 is already quite small, should be f 

 sion of bees, as has been described 

 would become also adapted to butt< 

 be assumed that the red coloration 

 to the visits of these insects, when 

 the history of this (lower independ 



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distinct petals still < 



