THE IVY FAMILY. 345 



The berries are ofcen collected with those of the next species, tmd mistakenly 

 Bold for them. 



3. Ceanberky — {Vacc'inium Oxycoccos.) 

 On all the mosses about Manchester, common. Barton Moss ; Car- 

 rington Moss ; Horwich Moor ; Lindow Common. Fl. May, June. 



E. B. V. 319 ; Baxter, vi. 429. 



Some botanists regard those Vacciniuma which have a reflexed coroUa as a 

 separate genus, and call the English one Oxycoccos palustris. 



CIV.— THE IVY FAMILY. Aralidcece. 



The Ivy Family is known to ordinary botany only in the evergreen 

 climber which gives name to it, and in a tiny spring blossom of the 

 hedgebanks, as little like ivy in general figure as could well be eon" 



Fig. 181. 

 Stem, leaves, and hold-fasts of Ivy. 



ceived. There are about one hundred and fifty species in all, 

 distributed pretty generally over the world, and in their technical 

 characters approaching the Umbelliferae, from which they diflFer in 

 the ovary having more than two cells, and in the tendency to form d 



