298 ERICACEAE. — M0N0TR0PACEJ3. [MoflOtropa. 



shallow depvession at top; filled with a purplish juicy pnlp of a watery acid 

 flavour. Seeds nuinerous, reddish, very small, suhreniform and angular, reticu- 

 lated with sharp slender ridges like filigree. 



2. V. Oxycoccos, L. Common Cranberry. Peduncles terminal 

 single-flowered, leaves ovate evergreen glaucous beneath their 

 margins revolute and entire, corolla 4 -partite revolute, stem fili- 

 form. Br. Fl. p. 253. E.B. t. 319. Oxycoccus palustris, Rich. 



In spongy turfy bogs, amongst sphagnum and other mosses ; very rare. Fl. 

 May, June. Tj. 



E. Med. — In a sphagnous boggy meadow by the Medina, between Criduiore 

 and Appleford farms, forming part of a peat-bog called the Wilderness or Apple- 

 ford Wilderness, in considerable abundance. 



I had not succeeded in finding this plant in fruit, and scarcely even in flower ; 

 but in 1848 Dr. Bell-Salter gathered a handful of the ripe berries, which he 

 observed to be in a great measure concealed amongst the Sphagnum on which the 

 plant delights to flourish. 



Order XL VI. MONOTEOPACE^, Nutt. 



"Calyx 5-partite or 5-sepaled, persistent. Corolla regular, 

 gamopetalous, ovate or campanulate, or wanting. Stamens 8 — 10, 

 sometimes alternating with as many recurved glands ; anthers 

 sometimes opening transversely, sometimes parallel-celled with 

 bristles at the base, never opening by pores at the base or apex. 

 Ovary without a conspicuous entire hypogynous disk, 4 — 5 celled, 

 many-seeded. (Sfj/Ze single. )Sit(/ma discoid, somewhat margined, 

 Capsule 5 -celled, 5-valved, loculicidal. Seeds numerous, chaify 

 or winged at one end. Embryo minute, in the apex of the fleshy 

 albumen. — Herbaceous, groiving among the roots of Pines and other 

 trees ; stems brown or almost colourless, leafless, but covered with 

 scales." — Br. Fl. 



I. MoNOTEOPA, Linn. Bird's-nest. 



" Perianth {corolla, DC.) of 4 — 5 leaves, cucullate at the base, 

 with or without as many external alternate scales or bracteas 

 {calyx, DC.) Anthers 1-celled, 2-lipped. Seeds chaffy." — Br. Fl. 



1. M. Hypopitis, L. Yelloiv Bird's-nest. Stem glabrous many- 

 flowered, flowers racemose, lateral ones with 8, terminal with 10 

 stamens. Br. Fl. p. 262. E. B. t. 69. 



In woods, groves and plantations, principally in those of fir or beech ; but 

 rarely with ns. FL July. Fr. August, September. 2^. 



E. Med. — By the footway through the Undercliff from Luccombe to Bonchurch, 

 Mr. J. Woods, jun., in Bot. Guide. 



W. Med. — In a large plantation of fir and beech adjoining Calbourne New 

 Barn. In the great plantatiou of fir, beech, &c., on the slope of the down at 

 Westover, gathered sparingly in one spot only, 1843. 



Root a bundle of numerous, biownish, filiform, much-branched, somewhat 

 knotty fibres, creeping amongst the soil, which they so consolidate as to render 

 their separation from it for the purpose of examination or preserving extremely 



