. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. GAMPANALES. 511 Illustrations of Vaccinium Myb- TILLUS. Monotropa uniflora, Indian Pipe, is common tliroughout nearly all North America, It appears to be saprophytic. Sarcodes sanguinea is the interesting Snow Plant, which in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California shoots up its flesh-red stem and flowers in early spring, soon after the snow melts. Sub-Order Vacciniece,—Shrubby plants, mostly of the North- ern Hemisphere. Species, 320. The thick adherent calyx-tube of the flower often becomes fleshy and edible in fruit. (Figs. 440-41.) Oaylussa
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. GAMPANALES. 511 Illustrations of Vaccinium Myb- TILLUS. Monotropa uniflora, Indian Pipe, is common tliroughout nearly all North America, It appears to be saprophytic. Sarcodes sanguinea is the interesting Snow Plant, which in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California shoots up its flesh-red stem and flowers in early spring, soon after the snow melts. Sub-Order Vacciniece,—Shrubby plants, mostly of the North- ern Hemisphere. Species, 320. The thick adherent calyx-tube of the flower often becomes fleshy and edible in fruit. (Figs. 440-41.) Oaylussacia resinosa, a low shrub of the Eastern United States, pro- duces the Black Huckleberries of the markets. Vaccinium Pennsyhanicum, the Early Blueberry, or Blue Huckle- berry, and V. vacillans, the Low or Late Blueberry, are common in the Northeastern United States. V. corymbosum, the Swaui-p Blueberry, is also common in the Eastern United States. Be- sides these, other spe- Figs. 440-41. cies furnish edible fruits which are some- times found in the mar- kets. V. Myrtillus oc- curs with us only in the Kocky and Sierra Ne- vada Mountains. V. Oxycoccus, the Small Cranberry of the Northeastern United States, and the much larger var. macrocar- pon, or Large Cran- berry, which extends much further south, are valuable for their acid fruits. The variety is extensively culti- vated from Massachusetts to Wisconsin. 587,—Cohort XIX. Campanales. Plants with flowers mostly zygomorphic ; ovary inferior, two- to six-celled (rarely one-celled) ; ovules usually many in each cell. Order Campanulaceas.—Herbs, rarely shrubs, usually with alter- nate leaves and a milky juice, ovary two-to many-celled. The 1000 species which compose this order were until recently divided between the two orders Lobeliaceae and Campanulacea), which are here merged" • into one. The order as now constituted is represented in all regions, but most abundantly in temperate ones. All possess more or less acrid
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