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and forming a long spike. Sepals linear-lanceolate, spreading. Capsule 

 pendent. 



Mountain woods and grassy places of the chestnut zone of the Maritime Alps. 

 Very rare in the Var. June-July. 



C. latifolia L. (Giant Campanula), C. spicata L. (flowers small, in a long 

 dense spike, leaves long and hairy), and C. linifolia Lamk. are sometimes found 

 in the lower Maritime Alps, but the common alpine C. puslla does not seem to 

 descend to such low elevations in the south as it does in central Europe. 



VACCINIEJE. 

 Corolla campanulate, urceolate or rotate. Fruit a berry VACCINIUM. 



VACCINIUM L. 



V. MyrtHlllS L. Whortleberry or Bilberry. A small glabrous shrub, 6-18 

 inch high, with many erect or spreading green branches. Leaves deciduous, 

 ovate, barely an inch 'long, finely toothed and very shortly stalked. Flowers 

 greenish white or pinkish, nearly globular. Berry globular, nearly black and 

 covered with a glaucous bloom. 



Mountain woods, butirare in'the Var. May. 



ERICACEAE. 



Tribe I. ARBUTE/E. Buds naked. Corolla ideciduous. Fruit a ^berry or 

 drupe. 



Ovary cells many ovuled ARBUTUS. 



Ovary cells i-ovuled ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 



Tribe II. ERICINE^. Buds naked. Leaves small. Flowers 4-merous. 

 Corolla persistent. Anthers cohering in bud. 



Corolla 4 fid. Capsule loculicidal, cells many-seeded ERICA. 



Corolla 4-partite. Capsule septicidal, cells few-seeded CALLUNA. 



Tribe III. PYROLE^E. Herbs. Leaves chiefly radical. Petals 5, free or 

 connate, concave. Capsule loculicidal PYROLA. 



ARBUTUS L. 



Arbutus Unedo L. Strawberry-tree (Plate XX). An evergreen shrub or 

 small tree, mostly glabrous. Leaves shortly stalked, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 toothed, shining on upper side. Flowers in small, drooping terminal panicles, 

 greenish-white, often tinged with pink. Berry yellow and then red, globular, 

 granulated, dry and without flavour. 



Woods and hill-sides; common on the littoral, especially on siliceous soil. 

 September-November. An insect sometimes makes the leaves silvery. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS Adans. 



A. Uva-ursi Spreng. Bearberry. A small, much-branched shrub. Leaves 

 evergreen, glossy above, with sunken dots (brown glands) beneath, usually 

 entire, leathery, net-veined. Flowers white or pale pink, in compact, drooping, 

 terminal racemes. Berries globular, bright red, smooth and shining. 



Mountain woods in the north of the Var and in the Maritime Alps. April- 

 June. 



ERICA L. HEATH. 



E. arbor eaL. Tree-heath. Shrub, 3-12 ft. high. Stems much branched, 

 whitish and woolly when young. Leaves in whorls of 3-4, narrow-linear with 

 i furrow. Flowers small, white or very pale pink, sweet scented. Stamens 

 included in corolla tube. Trunk woody and sometimes quite thick. 



Woods and thickets ; common in the littoral on siliceous soil ; and extending 

 in Liguria up to about 4000 ft., as e.g. above Bajardo behind Bordighera. 

 Harch-May. 



