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led to examine and sketch the internal arrangements 
of those bottles and compare them with corresponding 
parts in the few belated flowers of Bilberry that 
might still be found, though the “wires” were laden 
with the bloom-covered berries that served me for 
refreshment. 
Do you know the Bilberry shrub (Vaccinium 
myrtillus), with its angled stems and thick oval 
leaves, its globular, rosy-green corolla with a small 
mouth, looking not unlike the nest of a bee (Humenes) 
I used to find in the Heather close 
by? Here it shares with Heather 
the whole of the hill-top not occupied 
by the pine-trees, and a good deal 
of the ground under these trees is 
also covered by it. It is helped 
in this work of covering extensive 
areas by the fact that it has a 
creeping rootstock which runs be- 
neath the ground and sends up | 
innumerable stems.. The flower is Bilbory flower 
beautifully shaped, and has a very 
interesting arrangement of its essential organs. The 
calyx-tube is top-shaped, and has five short lobes, 
indicating the five sepals that are amalgamated in it. 
The corolla, too, has five turned-out lobes round its 
little mouth, to mark a similar fact in its construc- 
tion. There is a central thread-like style with a 
blunt stigmatic tip which stands in the mouth of the 
corolla for any bee to knock its head against, and 
round its base are the honey-glands. The stamens 
are very singular in shape (see figure on next 
page), and have tubular tips opening at their ex- 
