BILBERRY, ETC. 343 



Vaccinium Myrtillus, L. Bilberry, Whortleberry. 

 Glabrous sub-shrub, with angular ascending branches, 

 and deciduous, ovate, serratulate leaves. 



Flowers single, pendent on short axillary pedicels. 

 Calyx an epigynous angular rim. Corolla urceolate- 

 globoid, pale greenish-white dashed with red, with 5 small 

 teeth. Ovary inferior. Fruit globoid, blue-black pruinose, 

 about as large as a pea. 



tt Branches rounded ; leaves entire and glaucous 

 beneath. Corolla pink, 4 5 mm. long. 



Vaccinium uliginosum, the Bog Whortleberry, is very 

 similar to the last, but the branches are not angular ; the 

 leaves are entire and more obovate, and glaucous beneath ; 

 and the flowers smaller. 



** Parts of the flower in fours, stamens 8 ; 

 corolla bell-shaped ; anthers not awned ; 

 berry red. Leaves evergreen. 



[The rarer Vaccinium Oxy coccus, the Cranberry, with 

 evergreen ovate pointed leaves and scarlet berries; and 

 V. Vitis-idcea, the Red Whortleberry or Cowberry, with 

 Box-like leaves, and Cranberry-like berries, also come 

 here.] 



(/3) Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube 

 i.e. epipetalous. Anthers with neither 

 awns nor pores. Parts of calyx and 

 corolla, and stamens, 5 each: ovary 2 3- 

 celled. 



* Flowers regular and actinomorphic. Shrubs [For (**) 

 not climbing. see p. 347.] 



t Corolla bell-shaped, rosy ; stamens inserted ; 



