XXL 1. HIGH BUSH WHORTLEBERRY. 401 



filament. Style as long as corolla. Berries large, black, crowned 

 with the persistent calyx. 



Found at Manchester, rare. Flowering in July. 



Sp. 4. The Deer Berry. V. starnineum. L. 



A bush about two feet high, with numerous, slender, tapering, 

 somewhat downy, green branches, which afterwards tarn brown. 

 The leaves are oval or elliptic, often somewhat heart-shaped at 

 base, acute at the end, slightly revolute on the margin, conspic- 

 uously veined, glaucous and somewhat downy beneath, on very 

 short, downy footstalks. The largest are two inches long and 

 one broad. The flowers are conspicuous for their very long, 

 straight anthers, projecting far beyond the short, spreading, 

 white corolla, with pointed lobes : at the base of each flower- 

 stem is an ovate leaf, much smaller than the other leaves. 

 Berries greenish, afterwards white, pear-shaped. Found at 

 Southampton lead mine (Oakes), and elsewhere, in the western 

 part of the State. Flowers in May and June, and ripens its 

 scarcely eatable fruit in September. 



Sp. 5. The High Bush Whortleberry. Swamp Whortle- 

 berry. V. corymbbsum. L. 



A shrub from four to eight or nine feet high, forming large, 

 handsome clamps in swamps and moist woods, and maturing its 

 fruit later than the upland species. It is crowded with irregu- 

 lar, straggling branches, which are downy and somewhat angu- 

 lar when young. The bark on the branches and stem is of a 

 bronze or copper color, bleached, where exposed to much light, 

 to a gray. It gradually becomes rough, and cleaves off. On the 

 smaller, it is yellowish green, clouded with dark purple, and 

 closely scattered with whitish dots. The leaves, at the time of 

 flowering, are narrow, lanceolate, egg-shaped or inversely egg- 

 shaped, or elliptic, and often very downy beneath, and pale green 

 or purplish. They afterwards become much broader, without 

 increasing in length; smooth on both surfaces, but somewhat 

 downy along the rnid-rib and often on the primary veins, of a soft 

 green, paler beneath. The short, flower -bearing branches, the 

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