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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, campanulate corolla down- 
Fig. 32. Vaccinium Vitis-idea 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 8mm. wide, but the flower of the 
form pumilum is always smaller (5 to 8 mm., with the throat 
5mm. in diameter; in Nova Zembla according to Exstam 4 to 
8 mm.}; compare my figure with that of H. Mürrer; both are 
magnified 5 times. i 
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 
