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pale blue flowers with awl-shaped recurved sepals. — Gravelly and 

 sandy places in the south ; local. — Fl. July, August. Biennial. 



8. C. pdtula (Spreading Bell-flower), distinguished by its rough 

 stem, loose panicles of wide, cup-shaped, purplish-blue -flowers and 

 awl-shaped sepals toothed at the base. — Hedges and copses, 

 chiefly in the west ; local. — Fl. July, August. Biennial. 



6. LEGOtJSiA (Venus' Looking-glass). — Small herbs with purple 

 or white flowers ; corolla polysymmetric, rotate ; anthers free ; 

 capsule long, 3 — 5-chambered, opening by lateral pores above the 

 middle or between the sepals. (Name from the provincial French 

 name Legouz, possibly connected with gousse, a pod.) 



1. L. hybrida (Wild Venus' Looking-glass). — A small plant, 

 4 — 12 in. high, with a rough, wiry, angular, seldom-branched 

 stem; oblong, rough, wavy leaves ; small, terminal flowers with a 

 calyx much longer than the purple rotate corolla ; and an elongated, 

 generally triangular cupsule tapering at both ends. — Cornfields, 

 chiefly in the south. — Fl. June — September. Annual. 



Ord. XLIII. Vacciniaceje.— The Cranberry 

 Family 



Small shrubby plants, inhabiting temperate regions, especially 

 mountainous and marshy districts. Leaves scattered, simple, often 

 evergreen ; calyx superior, of 4 — 6 lobes, which are sometimes so 

 small as to be scarcely perceptible ; corolla 4 — 6-lobed, urceolate, 

 bell-shaped or rotate; stamens 8 — 12, free, epigynous ; anthers 

 opening by 2 terminal pores, and often furnished with 2 bristle- 

 like appendages which act as levers in the process of insect- 

 pollination; ovary 4—1 o-chambered, surmounted by a flat disk; 

 style simple ; fruit a true berry, juicy ; seeds small, many in each 

 chamber of the ovary. By some botanists these plants are placed 

 in the same Order as the Heaths, from which they differ chiefly 

 in having an inferior ovary. The leaves and bark are astringent, 

 the berries slightly acid and agreeable to the taste. Cranberries, 

 the fruit of Schollera Oxycoccus and S. macrocdrpus, are largely 

 imported, the former from Russia, the latter from Chicago, for 

 making tarts. Several members of the Order are cultivated for 

 their pretty flowers. 



1. VAcefNiUM (Whortleberry). — Low shrubs with scattered, 

 often evergreen, leaves; calyx superior, 4 — 5-lobed, sometimes 

 with the lobes so short as to be scarcely perceptible ; corolla cam- 

 panulate or urceolate, 4 — 5-fid; stamens 8 — 10; anther- chambers 



