OCTANDRTA MONOGYNIA. Vaccinium. 109 



bearing a single^, without any Is., the outer ones terminated by 

 a leaf similar to the stem ones. Cor. full yellow. Stic/, scarlet. 

 A handsome plant. 



VACCrNIUM. Whortle-berry.' 



* Leaves deciduous. 



V. Myrtillus. Black TV. Bilberry. Stalks solitary, 

 single-flowered. Leaves egg-shaped, saw-toothed, mem- 

 branous, smooth, deciduous. Stem acutely angular. 

 Calyx wavy, nearly entire. E. B. 456. Vaccinia 

 nigra. G. E. 1415. 



** Stony heaths, woods ivliere the soil is turfy. Sm. Checkendon. 

 Woods near Clump House. Sb. (Bagley Wood.) Y. 



Shrub. April. 



Stem forming small tufted bushes. Ls. alternate, bright-green, 

 shortly stalked. FL drooping, stalks short, round. Cor. nearly 



- globular, bright-red, waxy in appearance, transparent. Berr. 

 roundish, dimpled, bluish-black. Stam. generally ten. Anth. 

 cloven and horned. 

 The tender Is., dried in the shade a good substitute for tea. The 



ripe berries in tarts : and food for moor-game : berries astringent. 

 * * Leaves evergreen, 



(V. Vitis IdcBa. Red JV. Cow-herry. Clusters 

 terminal, drooping ; with egg-shaped concave bracteas, 

 longer than the flower-stalks. Leaves inversely ega;"- 

 shaped, rolled back, minutely toothed ; dotted beneath. 

 Corolla bell-shaped. E. B. 598. Vaccinia rubra, 

 G. E. 1415. 



Dry, stony, turfy heaths, mountainous ivoods. Heaths between Mid- 



dleton and Sutton, Warwickshire. Pn. 

 Shrub. June. 



A low, box-tree-like shrub, with red berries.) 



(V. Oxycoccus. Marsh IV. Cranherry. Leaves egg- 

 shaped, entire, smooth, rolled back, acute. Stems 

 creeping, thread-shaped, smooth. Flowers terminal. 

 Corolla deeply four-cleft. E. B. 319. Vaccinia pa- 

 lustria. G. E. 1419. 



Clear, watery, turfy bogs, among mosses. Pool in Chelmsley Wood, 

 &c. Bree. 



Shrub. June. 



Slender, trailing. Berries deep-red, at first spotted.) 



' Ang.-Sax. Iieord berian, i. e, stag's berry. 



