Tas. 7418. 
VACCINIUM sryturocarrum. 
Native of the Alleghany Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. Vacctntacra.—Tribe Euvacciniga. 
Genus Vaccinium, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5738.) 
Vaccinium (Oxycoccoides) erythrocarpum; fruticulus ramis divaricatis, 
ramulis puberulis, foliis deciduis ovatis ovato-oblongisve acuminatis 
serrulatis sinubus setiferis supra setulosis venosis, floribus solitariis 
axillaribus longe pedicellatis pendulis, calycis tubo obconico limbo 
brevissime 4-dentato, corolla rosea alabastro conica, tubo brevi, lobis 4 
loriformibus revolutis, filamentis villosis, antheris elongatis puberulis 
dorso medio bicalcalearatis, baccis globosis demum nigricantibus. 
V.erythrocarpum, Michxy. Fl. Am. Bov, vol. i. p. 227, A. Gray Fl. N. Un. 
t. ed. v- p. 290; Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. in. pt. i. p. 25. Chapm. FI. 8. 
Un. St, p, 259. 
Oxrcoccus erectus, Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. vol. i. p. 264. DO. Prodr, vol. viii. 
pars ii. p. 577. Wats. Dendrol. Brit. vol. i. t. 31. Loud. Arboret. 
Brit. p. 1171, fig. 994. 
O. erythrocarpus, Pers. Synops. vol. i. p. 419. 
A remarkable whortleberry, uniting by the structure of 
its flowers, the deciduous leaved species of Vaccinium 
proper, in which the corolla is ovoid, with the true 
Oxycocet or cranberries, which have persistent leaves, and 
a corolla divided nearly to the base into long narrow at 
length revolute lobes. This has led to differences of 
opinion regarding the position of V. erythrocarpum, and 
the validity of Oxycoccus as a genus differing from Vacct- 
nium. Michaux, who, I believe, discovered, and who first 
described the plant, placed it in Vaccinium, while Persoon, 
and following him Pursh, referred it to Oxycoccus. Asa 
Gray, the highest authority for North American plants, 
reduced Oxycoccus, including V. erythrocarpum, to a section 
of Vaccinium, distinguishing the latter from the other 
Oxycocci, the Cranberries by its habit and deciduous leaves. 
Lastly, in the Genera Plantarum, V. erythrocarpum is 
retained in Vaccinium, with the sectional characters of the 
corolla, whilst Oxycoccus is restored for the two cranberries 
(O. palustris and O. macrocarpus), which differ from all 
May Isz, 1895. 
