HEATH FAMILY 



these bushes are laden with small, white or reddish, urn- 

 shaped flowers, that last for only a short season. In late 

 summer come the small, lustrous blueberries, that fill all, 

 even the tiniest of bushes, while in the fall, the leaves, 

 by turning a brilliant crimson, like the Low-bush Huckle- 

 berry, become one of the principal factors in making the 

 Commons a blaze of colour, from hillside to hillside, and 

 through the intervening valleys, as far as the eye can reach. 



Seventeen other members of the Heath Family have 

 been reported. 



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