(, Oxycoccus (Tourn,) Adans. 
A prostrate creeping slender=stemmed herb with alternate, persistent, 
leathery leaves. llowers elevated on slender pedicels, Yepals 4, Petals 
4, free, strongly recurved. Stamens 8, the anther-sacs prolonged into 
tube-like appendages. Ovary 4-chambered, Fruit a red berry. 
1. O. palustris Pers, Small Cranberry. Perennial with internodes .5-1 cm, 
long; leaf-blades nearly sessile, 4-7 m, long, oval, obtuse at both ends, 
rounded at the base, the upper surface somewhat glossy, the lower waxy-white, 
the margins entire, revolute; flowers in pairs at the tips of branches, 
erect, the mature pedicels 2.5-3 cm. long; sepals minute, semicircular; 
petals rose-purple with a deeper spot at the base, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 
7-8 mm. long; stamens 5 mm, long, the filaments minutely puberulent; fruit 
subglobose or pear-shaped, 6-8 mm, in diameter, (Vaccinium Oxycoccus Le). 
Rarely found in our region, creeping in sphagnum bogs. Priest Lake, 
Epling 7712; mouth of the Thorofare, Piper 37223; Rehder Cr,, 2850 ft., 
Leiberg 2744. 
2, Chiogenes Salisb. 
Prostrate herbs with alternate, persistent leathery leaves, llowers 
solitary in the axils, each subtended by 2 bracts. -epals 4. Corolla 
campanulate, 4-lobed3; stamens 8, the anthers awnless, the sacs not pro- 
longed into tube-like appendages. Ovary 4-chambered. Fruit a white berrye 
te Ua hispidula T. & G. Stems covered with brown appressed hispid hairs; 
leaves 4-8 mm, in diameter, broadly oval, nearly orbicular, leathery, the 
margin entire, the upper surface somewhat glossy, the lower pale, sprinkled 
with short brown hairs, petioles .5 mm, long; flowers on vedicels 2 mm, long; 
corolla 1,5<2 mm, long; berry globose, white, mealy, hispidulous with rusty 
hairs; seeds 1,1 mm, long. 
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