PLex.caL 37. VACCINIE^. 168. Vaccinium. 405 



Corolla ovate, 4-cut; anthers 2-h6rned Vaccinium. 168. 



Cor. bellshape, 4-cut ; anthers hornless; 

 jilaments woolly , Vitis-Idjea. 169. 



Cor. bellshape, 4-cut; anthers hornless; 

 filaments bald Oxycoccus. 170. 



I. 168. VACCINIUM. Pliny. Bilherry. 

 Calyx 4 or 5-toothed; corolla bellshape, ovate, limb 



4-cut, lobes reflexed ; stamens 8 or 1 ; filaments bald ; an- 

 thers 2-horned ; stigma simple ; lerry 4 or 5-celled, many- 

 seeded. — Stem shrubby; leaves annual; flowers solitary, 

 drooping. 



1. Vaccinium montanum. Mountain lilherry. 

 Stem angular ; leaves alternate, petioled, serrate ; floivers 



solitary, axillary. 



Vitis Idaea angulosa, Bktii Syn. 457, 2. 



Vaccinia nigra, Ger.em. 1415, I. * 



Vaccinia nigra vulgaria. Park. 1456. 

 Vaccinium Myrtillus, Lin, S. P. 498. 

 Vitis Idaea Myrtillus, Mcench Meth. 47. 

 Vaccinium montanum, Salish. Prod. 291. 



Black whorts. Black whortleberries. Blackberries, Bullberries. Wine- 

 berries. 



Spongy places in, mountain woods; shrubby; May. 



Leaves light green; floivers peduncled, flesh-coloured, 

 globose; ca^a; 5-toothed ; corolla mostly 5-cut; stamens 10; 

 berries black, rarely white, esculent. 



2. Vaccinium uliginosum. Moor bilberries. 

 Stem round; leaves reverse-ovate, bald; edge not cut 



in the least, rather turned over ; beneath glaucous ; flowers 

 solitary, axillary. 



Vitis Idaea magna quibusdam, sive Myrtillus grandis. Rail Syn.^bl, 1. 



Vitis Idsea foliis sulwotundis major, Ger. em. 1416, 6. 



Vaccinia nigra, fructu majore, Park. 1455. 



Vaccinium uliginosum, Lin. S. P, 499. 



Great bilberry. 



Bogs on mountain heaths ; shrubby ; April and May. 

 Leaves blunt, veiny ; flowers flesh-coloured, 4-cut ; sta- 

 mens mostly 8 ; berries black, esculent ; seeds streaked. 



II. 169. VITIS-ID^A. Pliny. Cowberry. 

 Calyx 4-cut; corolla bellshape, 4 or 5-parted; lobes 



turned over, easily separable into 4 petals; stamens 8 or 

 10; filaments woolly; anthers awnless, tip tubular, open; 



