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The aerial shoots are a few centimetres high; consequently, 

 they are often hidden by moss and other plants ; they have 

 coriaceous foliage-leaves which remain green a couple of years 

 or more. 



The buds are protected by scale-leaves, hence the limits 

 of each year's growth are distinctly marked. 



The flowers pass the winter in terminal buds protected 

 by scale-leaves. They occur from two to four (or several), 

 in a racemiform cluster; each has two bracteoles a little 

 above the base of the pedicel; 4- and 5-merous flowers may 

 be found in the same inflorescence. They always turn the 

 mouth of their pale-rose-coloured, campanulale corolla down- 



Fig. 32. Vaccinium Vitis-idœa L., f. pumilum. (From West Greenland 



(Christianshaab), July 26, 1884.) 



A, Small plant with its runners. B. A leaf. (E. W., 1885.) 



wards (Figs. 33, 34) and are inconspicuous and more or less 

 hidden by leaves; they are scentless. The flowers of the 

 typical form from Central Europe are from 8 to 10 mm. long, 

 and the throat is from 7 to 8 mm. wide, but the flower of the 

 form pumilum is always smaller (6 to 8 mm., with the throat 

 5mm. in diameter; in Nova Zembla according to Ekstam 4 to 

 8 mm.); compare my figure with that of H. Müller; both are 

 magnified 5 limes. 



In the typical form the style projects far beyond the corolla, 

 and the pores of the anthers are widely separated from the 

 stigma (Fig. 33 H\ Fig. 34 B)\ in the Greenland form pumilum 

 the distance between the pores and the stigma is less, one 



