3i8 THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 



glandular, dotted below, with the margin thickened, 

 rolled back, and scalloped, leathery, the nerves not 

 netted. 



The flowers are pale flesh colour or pink, numerous, 

 in short dense, drooping, terminal racemes. The 

 flower-stalks bear two bracteoles. The calyx-tube 

 is hemispherical, with four broadly ovate lobes 

 fringed with hairs. The corolla is bell-shaped, four- 

 cleft, the lobes spreading. The fruit is a berry, 

 round, red, and acid in taste. The anthers are not 

 awned. The anther-stalks are hairy. 



The flowers bloom from June till August. The 

 plant is an evergreen shrub, 6 to i8 in. in height. 



The corolla is wide open, with spreading lobes, 

 and the flower fairly erect. Hive bees and humble 

 bees help to pollinate it. The anthers are long, 

 nearly as long as their stalks. The stigma is mature 

 in advance. The pistil is, however, occasionally 

 absent. 



The fruit is a berry, which is dispersed by the 

 agencies of birds and man. 



The following names have been given to the plant : 

 Flowering Box (the leaves are box-like), Brawlins, 

 Cluster-berries, Cowberry, Cranberry, Crow-berry, 

 Ling-berry, Moonog, Munshock, Whortleberry, 

 Whorts or Worts, Wine-berry. 



Vaccinium ViTis-iDiEA. — Note in Fig. 70 the under- 

 shrub type of habit ^ the two-ranked leaves with recurved 

 border^ and the terminal racemes of the flowers with 

 exserted style. 



