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loculicidal capsule containing numerous seeds on axile 

 placentas. The flower is thus very regular. 



GAULTHERIA FRAGRANTISIMA, Wall, is a small shrub 

 with much smaller white flowers. Leaves also alter- 

 nate, entire and thick, with on the underside numerous, 

 black dots, from which black hairs sometimes spring. 

 If crushed the leaf gives out a peculiar pleasant scent 

 because of the oil ('oil of Winter green') which it 

 contains. 



Flowers again quite regular, with five lobes to calyx 

 and corolla, ten free stamens, tailed anthers, and a 

 five-celled ovary. 



CHARACTERS OF THE ERICACEAE 



These two examples show very well the characters 

 of the order, the alternate leaves, the regular flowers, 

 the stamens unattached to the corolla, the tailed 

 anthers and the superior five (or more) celled ovary. 

 The chief home of the family is S. Africa where the 

 heaths, plants with short, narrow, linear leaves, are a 

 feature of the vegetation. Heather and Ling are the 

 European representatives. 



-VACCINIACE^E 



There is another family the VACCINIACE^E which 

 differs from the ERICACEAE practically speaking only in 

 the ovary being inferior and in the anthers not being 

 tailed. 



It is represented on the hill by VACCINIUM LESCH- 

 ENAULTII, Wt. a small tree, with stiff erect ovate 

 leaves, small pink bell-like flowers, anthers prolonged 

 into tubes, and black or purple berries. 



