152. THE STORY ‘OP PLANT Lita 
land districts, as well as on dry moors, and in each 
case the soil is peaty. In fact they cannot success- 
fully be transplanted without a good section of the 
soil in which they grow being kept intact with the 
mycorhiza. 
They are dwarf woody shrubs or under shrubs, 
a few reaching the size of trees, as the Strawberry 
tree, mainly evergreen, with whorled or opposite 
leaves, which are elliptical, entire or subentire, 
coriaceous, downy. 
The upper layer of the tissue is cuticularised. 
In the groups Rhododendroidee, Arbutoidez and 
Vaccinioidez, there are true winter buds, covered 
with scale-leaves, which, on elongating, drop off, 
leaving a gap in the stem. 
In the Ericoidez the leaves are whorled and 
needle-like, often recurved, with no winter buds or 
scale-leaves. There are no stipules. 
The flowers, which are regular, often grow termi- 
nally, or form a sympodium, and may be solitary or 
in a raceme, tubular or not. The calyx is tubular, 
with four to five divisions, and persistent. The 
corolla has a similar number of lobes, and may be 
campanulate, tubular, globular, etc. There are eight 
to ten anthers, which are seated upon the receptacle, 
and are two-celled, opening by two apical slits with 
spur-like projecting appendages. 
The pollen-grains are in tetrads. The fleshy disc 
secretes honey. The fruit is a capsule or a berry, 
drupe, or dry capsule with many seeds. 
