1016 VACCINIACEAE 
arying to ovate or obovate, 2-3 em. long, apiculate to ae T serrulate 
or less 
to serrulate, light-green, glabrous or with scattered hairs and m 
glaucous beneath: hypanthium and calyx glaucous: see deltoid 4 or - deltoid- 
reniform, obtuse: corolla 4-6 mm. long, dish-green: stamens 3-5 mm. 
lo berry globose, 4—7 m ameter, very glauco Paar a 
in dry Er VLA acid soil, various provinces, Ga. to Mis r - 
Mic —Flowering while the leaves are appearing; p ow in ' Jarge 
patches Ta underground stems, often conspicuous by the a uniform 
leav 
14. C. pallidus (Ait.) Small. ‘Stems 1-2.5 m. tall, ii d) ber the 
branchlets minutely pubescent: leaf-blades oval or elli iptie, varying to vate or 
obovate, 2.5-7 e m ir mostly aeute or slightly acuminate, ee deber on 
the midrib above, and along the ciliate-serrulate margin, bright-green above, 
pale o dcos ud P eath: hypanthium and calyx glaucescent: sepals ovate, 
sometimes broadly so, to triangular: corolla greenish-pink, campanulate-urceo- 
late, 4-5 mm s 5 m. long: berry subglobose, 2 j 
diameter, very glaucous.—Acid woods, Blue Ridge to Appalachian Plateau, Ga 
d RA a.—Flowering with the abs well developed. Most lux- 
th 
ant and fruitful at cb altitudes.—V. carolinianum Ashe, known only from 
Eier material, seems to be a form of this c 
15. C.liparus Small Stem up to 1 m. tall, irregularly branched, the branch- 
lets dod or finely pubescent: leaf-bla des narrowly obovate or d 3-7 
cm. long, acute, sometimes abru uptly pointed, glabrous, except on the midrib 
nae pale-green or glaucous beneath: hypanthium and calyx paca. sepals 
deltoid or wider than e ng, ae corolla white to pi c 1.8 mm. long, cam- 
pa anulate-urceolate: stamens 6-7 mm. long: berry glo , 5-7 mm. long, glau- 
ous.—Acid woods, and s nce: in pinelands, HE aee amd. NOS England 
Du E Tenn. to S N. Y. and N. H. Pii. with the leaves half devel- 
oped; flowers Ed ie ans those of C. palli 
6. C. tallapusae Coville. Stem 15-60 dm. tall, from a thick rootstock, gla- 
brous, or the branches sparingly pubescent in lines: leaf-blades elliptic- 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, acute, entire, glabrous or som 
pubescent above along the midrib or even ciliolate at maturity: sepals psy 
sometimes broadly so, obtuse or aeutish, entire: corolla a SA sometimes 
with a blush of pink, campa Bee urceolate, 5-5.5 m ong: s 4.5—5 
mm. E ng: berry globose 7-10 mm. in dia meter or 2 ee lucc -Od k 
woods, Piedmont and adj. us es, W Ga., Eo in the vicinity of Talla- 
poosa, and E Ala.—Flowering as the leaves appea 
C. subcordatus Sm Stem prid less than 1 m. tall widely 
SN] the pode Sous or sometimes with few minute hairs: leaf- 
blades ovate or oval-ovate, 1-3 em. long, mucronate or acute, bright-green above, 
dpud pon glabrous, e ciliate-serrulate, rounded to cordate at 
the | bas Dd m and = i ears sepals ovate to deltoid: Eod: not 
go globose, 6-8 m n diameter, very glaucous.—Open near 
Knoxville, BE. valley. Tenn. —Distinguished tom our other c end 
by the more or less cordate leaf-blades. 
18. C.hirsutus (Buckl.) Small. Stem up to 1 m. tall, irregularly Tn the 
branchlets copiously soft-pubescent: leaf-blades elliptic to o Vege 2-5 em. lon ng 
mostly e e, entire, softly pubescent on both sides: braets shaped like 
leaves but much smaller: hypanthium and calyx copiously E softly de de. 
sere a als ovate: corolla greenish-white to reddish, 8-9 mm. long, or 
rarely 7 mm.: filaments with long hairs: berry subglobose, 6-7 mm. in diame- 
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