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  KEY 
  AND 
  FLORA 
  

  

  warty 
  green 
  branches. 
  Leaves 
  oblong 
  or 
  oblong-lanceolate, 
  sharply 
  

   serrate, 
  with 
  little 
  bristle-pointed 
  teeth, 
  both 
  sides 
  smooth 
  and 
  shin- 
  

   ing 
  except 
  for 
  down 
  occasionally 
  on 
  the 
  midrib 
  and 
  veins 
  below, 
  

   pointed 
  at 
  both 
  ends. 
  Flowers 
  few 
  in 
  a 
  cluster, 
  longer 
  than 
  their 
  

   minute 
  pedicels. 
  Corolla 
  oblong, 
  bell-shaped, 
  a 
  little 
  narrowed 
  at 
  

   the 
  throat, 
  white 
  or 
  pinkish. 
  Berry 
  blue, 
  with 
  much 
  bloom, 
  ripening 
  

   earlier 
  than 
  the 
  other 
  eatable 
  species, 
  sweeter 
  than 
  No. 
  5 
  but 
  not 
  so 
  

   high-flavored. 
  In 
  dry 
  or 
  sandy 
  soil, 
  especially 
  N. 
  

  

  4. 
  V. 
  vacillans 
  Kalm. 
  LATE 
  Low 
  BLUEBERRY. 
  A 
  low, 
  stiff, 
  smooth 
  

   shrub, 
  1-3 
  ft. 
  high 
  ; 
  branches 
  yellowish 
  -green. 
  Leaves 
  obovate 
  or 
  oval, 
  

   pale 
  or 
  dull 
  green, 
  smooth 
  beneath, 
  entire 
  or 
  nearly 
  so. 
  Flowers 
  green- 
  

   ish-yellow 
  or 
  somewhat 
  pink. 
  Berries 
  late-ripening, 
  blue, 
  with 
  some 
  

   bloom, 
  sweet. 
  Dry, 
  especially 
  sandy, 
  soil. 
  

  

  5. 
  V. 
  corymbosum 
  L. 
  HIGH-BUSH 
  BLUEBERRY. 
  An 
  erect 
  shrub, 
  

   6-12 
  ft. 
  high; 
  branches 
  stiff, 
  young 
  twigs 
  minutely 
  warty. 
  Leaves 
  

   deciduous, 
  oval 
  to 
  ovate-lanceolate, 
  acute, 
  margins 
  bristly, 
  serrulate, 
  

   smooth 
  or 
  downy, 
  short-petioled. 
  Racemes 
  numerous, 
  appearing 
  with 
  

   or 
  before 
  the 
  leaves. 
  Bracts 
  oval 
  or 
  oblong, 
  deciduous. 
  Flowers 
  white 
  

   or 
  pink. 
  Corolla 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pedicel, 
  cylindrical. 
  Berry 
  

   globose, 
  blue 
  or 
  black, 
  flavor 
  slightly 
  acid, 
  pleasant. 
  Common 
  in 
  

   woods 
  and 
  thickets. 
  Whole 
  plant 
  extremely 
  variable.* 
  

  

  6. 
  V. 
  macrocarpon 
  Ait. 
  CRANBERRY. 
  Stems 
  creeping, 
  thread-like, 
  

   1-3 
  ft. 
  or 
  more 
  in 
  length, 
  the 
  branches 
  not 
  quite 
  erect, 
  sometimes 
  

   8 
  in. 
  high. 
  Leaves 
  usually 
  oval 
  or 
  oblong, 
  obtuse, 
  thickish, 
  ever- 
  

   green, 
  the 
  younger 
  ones 
  with 
  the 
  margins 
  somewhat 
  rolled 
  under. 
  

   Flowers 
  nodding. 
  Petals 
  strongly 
  reflexed, 
  deep 
  rose-red 
  inside 
  at 
  

   the 
  base, 
  pale 
  pinkish 
  or 
  almost 
  white 
  at 
  the 
  tips. 
  Stamens 
  with 
  

   the 
  filaments 
  hardly 
  | 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  anthers. 
  Fruit 
  red 
  or 
  reddish- 
  

   purple, 
  ellipsoidal 
  or 
  nearly 
  globose, 
  very 
  acid, 
  much 
  valued 
  for 
  sauce, 
  

   pies, 
  and 
  jellies. 
  Common 
  in 
  peat 
  bogs 
  and 
  wet 
  meadows 
  N. 
  

  

  77. 
  PRIMULACEJE. 
  PRIMROSE 
  FAMILY 
  

  

  Herbs, 
  with 
  simple 
  leaves, 
  often 
  most 
  or 
  all 
  of 
  them 
  basal. 
  

   Flowers 
  bisexual 
  and 
  actinomorphic, 
  generally 
  sympetalous. 
  

   Stamens 
  commonly 
  5, 
  inserted 
  on 
  the 
  corolla, 
  opposite 
  its 
  

   lobes. 
  Pistil 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  single 
  stigma 
  and 
  style 
  and 
  a 
  

   (generally 
  free) 
  1-celled 
  ovary, 
  with 
  a 
  free 
  central 
  placenta. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  all 
  basal. 
  

  

  (a) 
  Segments 
  of 
  corolla 
  not 
  reflexed, 
  throat 
  open. 
  Stamens 
  in- 
  

   cluded. 
  Primula, 
  I 
  

  

  