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VACCINIACEAE. 



Vol.. II. 



short-campanulate, 4-cleft, its lobes rounded. Stamens S, included; filaments short, nearly 

 orbicular, roughish ; anthers not awned nor prolonged into tubes, each sac 2-cuspidate at 

 the apex and opening by a slit down to the middle. Ovary 4-ceIled. surrounded by the 

 8-lobed disk; style short. Berry globose to oval, snow-white, many-seeded, rather mealy. 

 [Greek, snow-born, in allusion to the berries.] 



A monotypic genus of North America and Japan. 



I. Chiogenes hispidula (L.) T. & G. Creeping 

 Snowberry. Ivory-plums. Fig. 3274. 



Vacciniiim hispiduluni L. Sp. PI. 352. 1753. 

 C. scrpyllifolia Salisb. Trans. Hort. See. 2; 94. 1814. 

 Chiogenes hisf^idnla T. & G. ; Torr. FI. N. Y. i : 450. 1843. 

 Chiogenes japoniea A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part i, 26. 1878. 



Branches strigose-pubescent, very slender, 3-12' long. 

 Leaves coriaceous, persistent, oval, ovate, or slightly 

 obovate, short-petioled, acute at the apex, rounded or 

 narrowed at the base, dark green, glabrous above, entire, 

 sprinkled with appressed stiff brownish hairs beneath and 

 on the rcvolute margins, 2"-$" long; flowers few, soli- 

 tary, axillary, nodding, about 2" long, berry aromatic, 

 usually minutely bristly, crowned by the 4 calyx-teeth, 

 becoming almost wholly inferior, about 3" in diameter. 



In cold wet woods and bogs, Newfoundland to British Co- 

 lumbia, south to North Carolina and Michigan. Ascends to 

 5200 ft. in New Hampshire. May-June. Fruit ripe Aug.- 

 Sept. Flavor of sweet birch. Mountain partridge-berry. 

 Running birch. Moxie-berry. Maidenhair-berry, 



7. OXYCOCCUS [Tourn.] Hill, British Herbal, 324. 1756. 



Glabrous, or slightly pubescent, trailing or erect shrubs, with alternate nearly sessile 

 leaves, and axillary or terminal, solitary or several, pendulous or cernuous, slender-peduncled 

 red or pink flowers. Caly.x-tube nearly hemispheric, adnate to the ovary, the limb 4-5-cIeft, 

 persistent. Corolla long-conic in the bud, 4-5-parted or 4-s-divided into separate or nearly 

 separate petals, these narrow and revolute. Stamens 8 or 10, the filaments distinct; anthers 

 connivent into a cone, long-c.xserted when the flower is expanded, upwardly prolonged into 

 hollow tubes dehiscent by a pore at the apex, not awned. Ovary 4-5-ceIled ; style slender or 

 filiform. Fruit an oblong or globose many-seeded juicy red acid berry. [Greek, sour berry.] 



About 6 species, natives of the northern hemisphere. Type species : Oxycoceus vulgaris Hill, 

 Trailing bog shrubs ; leaves evergreen, entire ; flowers 1-6 from terminal buds. 



Leaves ovate, acute ; berry globose. i. O. O.vycoccos. 



Leaves oval or oblong, obtuse; berry ovoid or oblong. 2. O, macrocarpus.. 



Erect mountain shrub ; leaves deciduous, serrulate ; flowers solitary, axillary. 3. O. erythrocarpus. 



I. Oxycoceus Oxycoccos (L.) Mac]\I. 

 Small or European Cranberry. Fig. 3275. 



Vaceinium Oxycoccos L. Sp. PI. 351. 1753. 



V. Oxycoceus intermedium A. Gray. Syn. Fl. ed 2, 



2': 396. 1886. 

 Oxycoceus palustris Pers. Syn. i: 419. 1805. 

 O. Oxycoceus MacM. BuU. Torr. Club 19; 15. 1892. 



Stems very slender, creeping, rooting at the 

 nodes, 5'-i8' long. Branches ascending or erect, 

 i'-6' high; leaves thick, evergreen, ovate, entire, 

 acutish at the ape.x. rounded or cordate at the 

 base, dark green above, white beneath, 2"-8" long, 

 l"-3i" wide, the margins more or less revolute; 

 flowers 1-6, mostly umbellate, rarely racemose, 

 from terminal scaly buds, nodding, on erect fili- 

 form pedicels, 2-bracteolate at or below the 

 middle; corolla pink, about 4" broad, divided 

 nearly to the base ; filaments puberulent, about 

 half the length of the anthers; berry globose, 

 3"-S" in diameter, often spotted when young. 



In cold bogs. Newfoundland to .Alaska, New Jersey, 

 North Carolina, Michigan and British Columbia. 

 Also in Europe and Asia. May-July. Fruit ripe 

 Aug.-Sept. Bog- or marsh-wort. Moss-, bog-, fen- 



or moor-berry. Marsh-berry. Crone, cran-. cram- or crane-berry. Crow or craw-berry, 

 millions Imelons]. Sow- or sour-berry. Swamp red-berry. 



Moss- 



