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The concept of race refers to populations, that is, to interbreeding communities of individuals; this concept is misused when applied arbitrarily, as it often has been, to chosen individuals or fractions of a population. For example, the blue -eyed-eyed individuals in the population of the United States are not a race distinct from the dark-eyed members of the same population. To call the blue -eyed-eyed and the dark-eyed Americans different races would be absurd, since parents and children as well as brothers and sisters who frequently differ in eye color would have to be regarded as racially distinct. It is, nevertheless, correct to say that the eye color may be a racial character; thus, the race which inhabits northern Europe differs from the Mediterranean race among other ways by a higher incidence of blue -eyed-eyed individuals.

Rudbeckia hirta, black-eyed Susan, 1-3 feet R. hirta 'Gloriosa Daisy', and all cultivars Sambucus canadensis, elderberry, shrub to 8 feet Sisyrinchium bellum, blue -eyed-eyed grass, 10-12 inches Solidago spp., goldenrods, many species, up to 6 feet

If one travels southward or eastward from this center, the frequencies of blue -eyed-eyed individuals in the populations diminish and the predominant skin coloration becomes gradually darker. In the populations which live around the Mediterranean Sea, brown eyes are more common than the blue -eyed ones, bat fair skins are still frequent. Farther south, in the Sahara Desert, dark-skinned individuals become very common, and finally in central Africa very dark populations are reached.