154 Class VIII. Order II. 



Moose Hillock, Camel's Rump, and the White mountains.- 

 July. The leaves vary to oblong and orbicular. 



This little shrub resembles V. uliginosum of Europe, and is 

 probably a variety. Externally the fruit exactly resembles in 

 shape that of Gaultheria procumbens. 



VACCINIUM VITIS IDJEA. L. Cow Berry. 



Stem creeping ; leaves evergreen, obovate, den- 

 ticulate, re volute, dotted underneath ; racemes ter- 

 minal, nodding. 



This plant has some resemblance to the common cranberry, 

 but is larger. Stem creeping with herbaceous, angular branch- 

 es. Leaves small, coriaceous, shining, dotted beneath, revolute 

 at the edge, obsoletely serrulate. Flowers campanulate-cylin- 

 drical, reddish, four cleft. Berries red, acid. On the Monad- 

 nock and other mountains. In Lynn, Mr. Oakes. June. 



Subgenm OXYCOCCUS. Corolla four parted with linear, 

 revolute segments. 



VACCINIUM MACROCARPON. Jlit. Craneberry. 



Leaves evergreen, entire, oval-oblong, obtuse ; 

 stems filiform, creeping. Ait. abr. 



Syn. VACCINIUM oxrcoccus oblotigifolius. Mich. 



The craneberry vine spreads in large beds at the bottom of 

 the grass in boggy meadows. Stems slender, creeping. Leaves 

 numerous, small, dark above, whitish underneath. Flower 

 stalks axillary, slender ; corollas white, their segments long and 

 reflexed. Anthers projecting. The fruit is large, and esteem- 

 ed superior to the European craneberry. Perennial. 



DIGYJYM. 



164. CHRYSOSPLENIUM. 



CIIKYSOSPLENIUM opposiTiFOLiuM. L. Golden Saxifrage. 

 Leaves opposite, roundish, narrowed to a petiole, 



slightly crenate. 



A small, early, smooth plant in wet places. Stem quadrangu- 

 lar. Leaves opposite, sometimes single, reniform, crenate. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx four, roundish-rhomboidal of a green colour 



