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THE CRANBERRY FAMILY. cORDERxlui. VACCIN1ACEAE.) 
CALYX of 4 or 5 SEPALS united into a tube which, adheres to the seedcase and separating at the 
apex into 5 .teeth which are sometimes^ minute. 
COROLLA of 4 or 5 PETALS, as many as the sepals, united into a tube and separating 
into as many lobes as there are petals, bell-or urn-shaped, or flat and spreading (rotate^ 
inserted at the top of the calyx-tube (epigynous). Ik***. 
STAMENS 8-io, double the number of the petals; the anthers 2-cd.PBlil BILBERRY, 
ed, opening at the top by 2 pores and often spurred on the 
back-, inserted with but distinct from the corolla at the topY^* 
of the calyx- tube ( cpigynous) . 
PISTILof 4 5 CARPELS, united into a 2-5- 
celled seedcase, and a simple style crowned?! 
with a pin-heacl-Like stiqma. 
FRUIT 
MARSH 
CRANBERRY. 
section 
of 
fruit 
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2 stamens 
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calyx & 
pistil 
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■■■■■■•- Y" : 
fruit 
a juicy berry, 2-5-celled,with 
several small seeds in each cell, the 
berry crowned with the faded calyx-teeth.. 
FLOWERS in the axils of the leaves,or in small 
compact terminal clusters. 
STEMS woody. 
LEAVES alternate undivided often evergreen.jp* 
DISTINGUISHED from the Bell flower Family (Cam- 
panulaceoe) by the anthers discharging their 
pollen by 2 pores at the apex, by the fruit being a berry; 
and by the wiry stems-, and from the Heath family 
(Ericaceae i by the calyx-tube being combined with 
the seedcase the * calyx teeth crowning the 
berry instead %% of the calyx being free 
from & at the 1 n base of the' friu t . 
Many botanists [ place the 
thejleath Family. 
A 
Cranberry with 
