Vacctnium.] 
XLIX. VACCINIACEiE. 
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1. Vaccinium Linn. Whortleberry. 
Cor. ovate, campanulate or rotate, 4 — 5-fid. Berry globose, 
4 — 5-celled, many-seeded. — Name : some say the vuKivOogot' the 
Greeks, and hence synonymous with Hyacinthus ; but more pro- 
bably altered from baccinia, denoting a plant with abundance 
of bacca or berries. 
* Cor. ovate or campanulate. 
f Leaves deciduous. Anthers with 2 dorsal awns. 
1. Y. Myrtillus L. (Bilberry or Whortleberry ); peduncles 
1 -flowered, leaves ovate serrate glabrous deciduous, stem an- 
gular. E. B. t. 456. 
Woods and heathy places, chiefly in mountainous or alpine districts, 
abundant. \\. 4 — 6. — A small shrub, about 1 foot high. Flowers 
drooping, urceolate, almost waxy, greenish with a red tinge. Anthers 
tubular, each cell opening by a pore at the extremity, and having a 
horn at the back. Berries black, glaucous, very agreeable to the 
taste, and much eaten in the Highlands of Scotland. 
2. V. uligin6sum L. (great Bilberry or Bog Whortleberry) ; 
peduncles 1 -flowered, leaves obovate entire glaucous veined 
beneath deciduous, stems rounded. E. B. t. 581. 
In mountain bogs, Cumberland and Westmoreland; more frequent 
in 'the Highlands of Scotland, ascending even nearly to the summits 
of the mountains, h . 5, 6. — Leaves glaucous, especially beneath. 
Cor. ovate, flesh-coloured, smaller than in the last; anthers similar. 
Berries black, agreeable, but inferior in flavour to those of V. Myr- 
tillus. 
ff Leaves persistent, evergreen. Anthers awnless at the back. 
3. V. Vitis-Idce'a L. (Red W. or Cow-berry ); racemes ter- 
minal drooping, flowers campanulate 4-cleft, leaves evergreen 
obovate dotted beneath, their margins slightly revolute nearly 
entire. E. B. t. 598. 
Dry places on heaths, mountains and in woods in the north of 
England, W/iles, Scotland, and Ireland, k- 6, 7. — A low, some- 
what straggling shrub, with leaves resembling those of the Box. 
Flowers pale flesh-coloured, open at the mouth, and with deeper and 
more spreading segments than the two preceding species. 
* * Cor. rotate with refiexed segments. Leaves persistent, evergreen. 
Anthers awnless at the back. 
4. Y. Oxycuccos L. (Marsh W. or Cranberry) ; peduncles 
terminal single-flowered, leaves ovate evergreen glaucous be- 
neath, their margins revolute and entire, cor. 4-partite revolute, 
stem filiform. E. B. t. 319. Oxycoccos palustris Bers. 
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