894 VACCINIACEAE 
perhaps specifically distinct, with relatively narrower and more acuminate leaf-blades and more exserted 
stamens, occurs from Tennessee to Louisiana. 
4. Polycodium cándicans (C. Mohr) Small. An erect branching shrub 1-2 m. tall, 
with pale and pubescent foliage. Leaf-blades narrowly oblong or elliptic, 3-8 cm. long, 
acuminate or sometimes only acute, deep green or bright green above, glaucous and pubes- 
cent beneath with pale or white hairs, narrowly subcordate or truncate at the base: rachis 
of the raceme or panicle and the pedicels pubescent like the twigs: hypanthium glabrous : 
corolla white, about 5 mm. long: berries globular, fully 10 mm. in diameter, glaucous. 
[ Vaccinium melanocarpum candicans C. Mohr. ] 
In woods, Pennsylvania to Georgia and Alabama. 
5. Polycodium melanocárpum (C. Mohr) Small. An irregularly branching shrub 
0.5-1.5 m. tall, with tomentose or tomentulose young foliage. Leaf-blades firm at ma- 
turity, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 2-10 em. long, acute or slightly acuminate, ciliate, per- 
manently tomentose at least beneath, short-petioled, never subcordate : racemes or panicles 
few or many-flowered : pedicels curved, slightly enlarged upward, 5-10 mm. long, hairy: 
braets oblong to ovate, acute or apiculate, persistent : hypanthium usually more or less 
pubescent : berries globular or pyriform, 8-10 mm. in diameter, deep plum-purple, shining, 
palatable but slightly tart; pulp juicy, deep purple. [ Vaccinium stamineum var. melano- 
carpum ©. Mohr. | 
In mountain woods, North Carolina to Missouri, Georgia and Alabama. 
4. VACCINIUM L. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, sometimes persistent : blades membranous or 
leathery, entire or toothed. Flowers in terminal or axillary racemes or clusters or rarely 
solitary, appearing before the leaves or with them. Calyx persistent : sepals 4-5. Corolla 
white, pink or red, campanulate, tubular or urn-shaped. Stamens twice as many as the 
sepals : anthers sometimes awned ; sacs prolonged into terminal tubes, opening by pores 
or chinks. Ovary 4-5-celled or 8-10-celled by false partitions. Berries red, blue or black, 
sometimes with a bloom. BLUEBERRY. 
Leaves persistent, evergreen ; blades leathery. 
Vine-like shrub, with elongated, spreading, decumbent or procumbent branches: corolla campanu- 
late, 4 mm. long. EK crassifolium. 
Erect shrubs: corolla cylindric or conic-cylindric, 6 mm. long. 
Sepals obtuse: leaf-blades glandular-toothed : berries black. 
Sepals acute: leaf-blades bristly-toothed : berries blue. 
Leaves deciduous, or somewhat persistent southward: blades membranous, or 
thieker south ward but not truly leathery. 
Corolla cylindric or nearly so, mostly over twice as long as thick. 
Leaf-blades more or less pubescent beneath. 
Leaves with serrulate blades. 
Flowers appearing after the leaves: leaf-blades mainly less than 2 cm. 
V. nitidum. 
V. Myrsinites. 
git 
long. 
Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic or elliptie-spatulate, not rounded at 
the base: berries giniboos : Sante mainly less than 4 dm. tall. 4. V. tenellum. 
Leaf-blades oval or ovate, rounded at the base: berries not glau- liottii 
cous: plants mainly over 15 dm. tall. 5. V. Ellio ^h 2 
Flowers appearing before the leaves: leaf-blades mainly over 3 cm. long. 6. V. virgatum. 
Leaves with entire blades. 
Corolla rose-red : berries not glaucous. 7. V.formosum. 
Corolla white: berries glaucous. V. fuscatum 
Pares CODDORIy bron- pubescent benenta n Fd i V peior onm, 
eaf- es sparingly and inconspicuously pubescent beneath. . V. 
Leaf-blades glabrous ere E d : 10. V. australe. 
Corolla wap shaped, or somewhat campanulate, mostly less than twice as long as 
ick. 
Ovary and berry glabrous. 
Leaf-blades pubescent beneath. 
m. 
Leaf-blades entire: berries not glaucous. 11. v. airoto i 
Leaf-blades serrulate : berries glaucous. 12. V. simulatum 
Leaf-blades glabrous beneath. V. pallidum. 
Berries 8-12 mm. in diameter: stout shrub mostly over 1 m. tall 13. V. pa 
Berries 6 mm. in diameter or less : low shrub mostly less than 0.8 m. tall. beg E pisce 
Ovary and berry glandular-hirsute. 
1. Vaccinium crassifóülium Andr. A vine-like shrub, with elongated spreadin ded 
cumbent or procumbent branches, the twigs finely pubescent. _Leaves numerous : yer 
leathery, oval or elliptic, varying to ovate or obovate, or suborbicular near the base o scs 
plant, obtuse, shallowly toothed or nearly entire: hypanthium and calyx glabrous : co 
rose-red, campanulate, 4 mm. long. 
In moist sandy pine lands, North Carolina to Georgia. Spring. 
g de- 
