Genus 5. 



HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 



13. Vaccinium Elliottii Chapin. Elliott's 

 Black Blueberry. Fig. 3271. 



V. Elliottii Chapm. Fl. S. States 260. 1S60. 



A much-branched shrub, 2-7 high, the young 

 tvvigs greenish, pubescent, or glabrous, often 

 rather densely leafy. Leaves nearly sessile, dark 

 green, somewhat shining above, dull and glabrous, 

 or sparingly pubescent on the veins beneatli, ovate 

 to elliptic, serrulate or nearly entire, acute at the 

 apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, 4"-i2" 

 long; racemes few-flowered; pedicels shorter than 

 the corolla; calyx-lobes broad, acute; corolla 

 reddish, conic-urccolate, 2i."-T," long; berries 

 black, 3"-4" in diameter. 



Pine lands, southeastern Virginia to Florida and 

 Texas. March-May. Has been mistaken for 

 !'. myrsinitcs Lam., an ever.;reen shrub of the south- 

 eastern states, with blue berries, and obovate or 

 oblanceolate leaves. 



14. Vaccinium virgatum Ait. Southern 

 Black Huckleberry. Fig. 3272. 



I'accininm virgatum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789. 



A shrub, 3-l2 high, the branches slender, 

 green, the young twigs puberulent. Leaves nar- 

 rowly oval-oblong, broadest at the middle, mucro- 

 nate, short-petioled, entire, or finely serrulate, 

 green and glabrous above, pale or glaucous 

 beneath, veins pubescent, thick when old, i'-25' 

 long, J'-i' wide, the ends narrowed : flowers in 

 FXN short racemes or clusters, appearing before the 

 leaves, equalling or longer than their pedicels ; 

 bracts and bractlets small, deciduous; calyx 

 5-lobed ; corolla, nearly cylindric, 3"-4" long, 

 i"-\i" thick, pink; stamens 10; berry black, with 

 or without bloom, 2"-3" in diameter. 



In swamps, southern New York to Florida and 

 Louisiana. April-May. Fruit ripe in July. 



15. Vaccinium tenellum /\it. Small Black Blue- 

 berry. Fig. 3273. 



J'acciniuin tenellum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789. 



I'accininm virgatum tenellum A. Gray. Syn. Fl. 2': 22. 1S78. 



A low shrub, with underground stems, the branches 

 upright, 8'-i6' tall, finely pubescent. Leaves numerous, 

 cuneate or narrowly elliptic-spatulate to elliptic, s"-lo" long, 

 acute or slightly acuminate at both ends, serrulate, pale 

 green and rather conspicuously but delicately veined be- 

 neath, nearly sessile; flowers in often umbel-like racemes, 

 appearing after the leaves; pedicels shorter than the 

 corollas, sli.ghtly pubescent ; corolla white, 2"-3" long, 

 nearly cylindric, slightly constricted at the throat, its lobes 

 very short ; berries subglobose, about 3" long, black. 



In dry woods, Virginia to Florida, Arkansas and Mississippi. 

 April-May. 



6. CHIOGENES Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 2 : 94. 1814. 

 Creeping prostrate evergreen branching shrubs, with alternate 2-rankcd oval or ovate 

 small leaves, and solitary axillary small white flowers, on short recurved peduncles. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to the lower half of the ovary. 2-bracted at the base, its limb 4-cleft. Corolla 



