VACCINIACE^E 195 



Campanula latifolia L. 



The tallest and most handsome species, often in England 3-4 feet 

 high, usually shorter in Switzerland. The stems are rarely branched, 

 though leafy. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrow at the 

 base and lower ones stalked, pubescent, coarsely biserrate. Calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate. Flowers large, blue, deeply cleft into 5 lanceolate, 

 acute lobes. 



Woods, ravines, by streams in the plains and sub-alpine region ; 

 rare in Switzerland. July, August. 



Distribution. Alps, Pyrenees, Vosges, Jura ; woods of Northern 

 Europe, Northern and Central Asia to the Arctic regions, but be- 

 coming a mountain plant in Southern Europe. Occasional in 

 England and Scotland. 



VACCINIACE^: 



Calyx 4-5 fid ; teeth often minute. Corolla regular, 4-5 cleft. 

 Stamens 8 10 ; anthers opening by terminal pores or slits. Ovary 

 4-5 celled. Fruit a berry. Seeds albuminous. 



Small woody shrubs, often with shiny evergreen leaves. 



A small family allied to Ericacea, represented in northern and 

 temperate regions, and in the mountains of the tropics. 



VACCINIUM L. 



Small woody shrubs, often with shiny, evergreen leaves. Corolla 

 regular, campanulate or rotate, 4-5 cleft. Stamens 8-10. Style 

 filiform. Calyx 4-5 fid. Ovary 4-5 celled. Fruit a berry. Flowers 

 solitary or in racemes. 



A numerous genus in mountain districts and heaths, represented 

 over the greater part of the globe. 



Vaccinium Myrtillus L. Bilberry, Whortleberry. 



A small, glabrous shrub, 6 18 inches high, with many erect or 

 spreading green branches. Leaves deciduous, ovate, barely an inch 

 long, finely toothed and very shortly stalked. Flowers globular, 

 greenish white or pinkish. Berry globular, bluish black, with a 

 glaucous bloom. 



Mountain woods, heaths and stony pastures (avoiding limestone) 

 up to 9000 feet in the Maritime Alps and perhaps in Switzerland. 

 May to July. Fruit : August, September. 



The fruit is often larger than in England, and in autumn some- 

 times mountain-sides are ablaze with the autumnal tints of this 

 plant. 



Distribution. Mountain ranges of Southern Europe. At lower 

 elevations in Northern and Central Europe and Russian Asia. 

 British. 



