VACCINIACEAE 1017 
ter, eii purplish-blaek.—Open woods, in aeid soil, Blue Ridge, N. C. 
and Tenn.—Distinguished from all our other blueberries by the pubescent 
fruits. 
7. HERPOTHAMNUS Small. Shrubs with trailing, creeping stems and 
branches. Leaves evergreen: blades coriaceous, obscurely toothed. Flowers in 
eluster-like racemes with scale-like bracts. 
Hypanthium cup-shaped. Sepals very broad, 
acute. Corolla depressed-urceolate, 5-lobed. 
Stamens included. ilaments longer than 
ant Anthers awnless, with short 
apical tubes. Beo globose, black.—One 
species. 
1. H. crassifolius a Small. ct 
and fee uP to long, gla : 
leaves numerous; bla A ea or elliptic, p 
sometim ovate or suborbicular, 3-10 mm. 
ers 
ceeding the picker Bar als deltoid 2 "broadly triangular, acute: iere pink 
. lon 
about 3 mm. T pou broadly rounded: stamens 2.5 mm. long: ents 
pubescent: berry in diameter. [Vaccinium crassifolium rene T 
( CREEPING- Tom )— Pinelands, Coastal Plain, Ga. to N. Spr. 
8. HUGERIA Small. Shrubs with rigid branches. Leaves deciduou 
blades membranous, finely toothed, flat. Flowers solitary on slender Hd 
arising from edi peduncle and a pair of 
bracts. Hypanthium obconic. Sepals of a 
deltoid type. wis rotate, pink or white, 
with the 4 long lobes iik baekward. Sta- 
mens conspicuously exserted. Anthers awn- 
less, with very s des apieal tubes. Berry 
globos ji red, sometimes turning purple, in- 
sipid o metimes sweet and pleasant ins 
Nb us species and one or two 
others in eastern Asia. 
1. H. por e (Michx.) Small. Stem 
1-2.5 m. tall, the twigs mostly pc am 
leaf-blades ROS A ERE 2.5-7.5 em. long, acuminate, the teeth bristle- 
tipped: flowers nodding: sepals ciliate, e corolla 10-13 mm. a ng, the 
lanceolate lobes 4 or 5 iu longer than the tube: stamen oe 10-12 m A 
ee x. uu in diameter. [Vacciniwm erythrocarpum Michx. ]— (Mov TAIN- 
and summits, 
BEAR-BERRY.)—C 
to > Appalachian Plateau , Ga. to Tenn., W. Va., and A erp T flavor 
and acidity of the fruit is variable. ae fruit from different mountains is 
often quite different in flavor. The better kinds make a delicious jelly. In 
cultivation the better kinds would doubtless furnish an " additional "desirable 
berry. 
9. OXYCOCCUS Hill. Shrubs with slender trailing and creeping stems 
and branches. Leaves evergreen: blades coriaceous, entire, revolute. Flowers 
