Choose two sentences or phrases that give context clues to the meaning of "myriad" as used in the second paragraph.

A Together we stepped out to stand in silent contemplation of a landscape at once weird and beautiful.
B And upon all the noonday sun poured its torrid rays out of a cloudless sky.
C Behind us rose a dark and forbidding wood of giant arborescent ferns intermingled with the commoner types of a primeval tropical forest.
D starred with the magnificent splendor of vivid blooms.
E we could see the same splendid coloring of countless blossoms that glorified the islands,

and the myriad of butterflies that fluttered in the air.

Sentences E and C give context clues to the meaning of "myriad" as used in the second paragraph.