3 Vaccinium L. 
Shrubs with alternate deciduous leaves and often with angled stems. 
Flowers solitary or 2-4 together in the axils, borne on drooping pedicels,usually ” 
becoming erect in fruit. Calyx lobes 4-5, minute, commonly forming a disc. 
Corolla urn-shaped, the lobes reflexed, 4-5, white or pinkish. Stamens 8-10, 
the filaments glabrous, the anthers pearing on the back two upwardly curved 
prongs, each sac prolonged into a tube like appendage. Ovary 4-5-chambered. 
Fruit a berry, bearing a circular depression at the apex. 
O Calyx lobes wanting, the limb forming a more or less 
undulate skirt at the base of the corolla ,whieh 
eens a circular ridge on the top of the fruit 
? Leaves prevailingly ohovate or broadly oblanceolate, broadest 
i, above the ann ait udal. fda ee, ao Ve caespitosum 
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D Yeaves oval or ovate, broadest at the middle or 
G towards the base 
4- Shrubs 40-90 cm. tall or more 
/o black bearing a white waxy bloom 32 Ve. ovalifolium 
i, Leaves ovate or elliptical, irregularly 
__/ toothed; fruit wine-colored (rarely red 
/D\ or white) with no bloom or a light one 4, Ve membranaceum 
4 Undershrubs 15-40 om. tall, with usually 
' decumbent stems and ascending twiggy branches 
is Leaves commonly 6-12 mm. broad,on slender 
lo petioles 1 mm. long; fruit blue-black, 
(6-8 mne in diameter gv Ve. myrtillus 
,, Leaves commonly 4-7 mm. broad, nearly 
/ sessile; fruit bright-red, very rarely 
10< marple, 4-6 mm, in diameter 6. Ve scoparium 
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O Salyx S-lobed, the lobes small, deltoid, appearing 
as such on the top of the fruit ah occidentale 
Leaves broadly oval, entire; fruit blue& = 
