1018 DIAPENSIACEAE 
terminating slender stalks with one or two 
small braetlets, 1-4 of which arise from ter- 
minal scaly buds. Hypanthium cup-shaped. 
Sepals 4, often of a deltoid type. Corolla 
white or pinkish, of 4 narrow petals with one 
or more curled back. Stamens se ate sly 
exserted. Anthers awnless, with long slender 
apical tubes. Berry globose or somewhat 
elongate, red, acid.—A bout 6 species, natives 
of the Northern Hemisphere 
1. O. macrocarpus (Ait.) Pursh. Stem up to 
l m. long, often finely pubescent, with erect 
or ascending flowering branches: leaves 
D on blades elliptie to red elliptic, varying to ovate or coon 
6-14 mm. long, pale or whitish th: sepals acute, ciliolate: corolla noddin 
Sens eg c to E de d Ae long: stamens abou mm. 
long: berry 1-2 diameter. ‘[Vaccinium macrocarpon  Ait.]—(CRAN- 
ERRY.)—Bogs, a dd. meadows, low sandy 09d. and sandy banks, various a 
inces, in Coastal Plain only N, N. C. to Ark., Ind., Ont., and Ne wf—Sum — The 
commercial cranberry. 
10. CHIOGENES Salisb. Siightly woody plants with slender plaine 
stems and branches. Leaves evergreen: blades coriaceous, entire. Flowe 
solitary and sessile in a pair of braetlets 
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F C. hispidula (L.) T. & G. Stem branched 
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oval to n , 9— -13 m mm. long, Mies 
and with seattered hairs on the lower surface: hypanthium pubescent: sepals 
obtuse: corolla. abo ex 2 mm. long, the 4 lobes obtuse: stamens about 1 mm. 
Jong: berry 5-7 mm. in diameter, with scattered hairs, slightly acid i aro- 
ic. —(CREEPING- B CAPILLAIRE. MOXIE- -PLUM.)—Damp w oods and 
bogs, in PR acid humus or acid moss, Blue a and more northern prov- 
, N. C. to Mich., B. C., Ont., and Newf.— Spr. 
FAwiLY 6. DIAPENSIACEAE — Pyxig. FAMILY 
Undershrubs. Leaves alternate, often numerous: blades entire, leath- 
ery. Flowers solitary. Calyx of partly united persistent sepals. 
Corolla of 5 partly united petals. Androecium of 5 stamens, the filaments 
partly united to the corolla-tube. Gynoecium of 3 united carpels. Fruit 
a 3-valved eapsule.—T wo genera and about 6 species, natives of the North- 
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