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warty; buds ovoid or oblong. Swamps, Nova Scotia to Quebec, and 

 Wisconsin, south to Florida and Louisiana (Fig. 271 ). 



6. V. erythrocarpuni Michx. Southern Mountain Cranberry . 

 Shrub 3-"l8 dm. high, deciduous; twigs slender, pubescent, con- 

 spicuously angled; buds oblong, appressed, 1-1.5 mm. long. Thick- 

 ets, in the mountains from Georgia to West Virginia (Fig. 272). 



7. V. oxycoccos L. Small Cranberry . Stems trailing, very 

 slender, branches almost capillary; leaves evergreen, 4-10 mm. 

 long, 1-3 mm. broad, strongly revolute, conspicuously whitened 

 beneath; berries present in winter, 6-8 mm. across. Bogs, Green- 

 land to Alaska, south to North Carolina (in the mountains), Ohio, 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Oregon; also 

 in Eurasia (Fig. 273). 



8. V. macrocarpon Ait. Large Cranberry . Stems compara- 

 tively thick, elongated; leaves evergreen, 6-18 mm. long, 2-8 mm. 

 broad, pale beneath, flat or slightly revolute; berries present 

 through the winter, 1-2 cm. across. Bogs, Newfoundland to Min- 

 nesota, soutli to North Carolina and Illinois (Fig. 274). 



DIOSPYROS L. (Ebenaceae) 



Deciduous shrubs or trees. Twigs terete, zigzag, gray-brown; 

 pith moderate, continuous, sometimes becoming porous or cham- 

 bered. Buds solitary, sessile, deltoid-ovoid, with 2 overlapping 

 scales; terminal bud lacking. Leaf-scars alternate, half-elliptical; 

 bundle-trace 1, curved; stipule-scars none. 



1. D. virginiana L. Persimmon. A tree to 30 m. high, usu- 

 ally much smaller, with rounded top and spreading, often pendu- 

 lous branches; bark dark, deeply divided into square scaly thick 

 plates; fruit a large juicy edible berry, 2-3.5 cm. across, yellow- 

 ish or pale orange, withering but persistent into winter. Dry 

 woods and old fields, Florida to Texas, north to New England, 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas (Fig. 275). 



HALESIA Ellis (Styracaceae) 



Deciduous shrubs or small trees with shredding bark. Twigs 

 moderate, terete; pith small, round, chambered, white. Buds 

 moderate, superposed, ovoid, with about 4 red scales. Leaf-scars 

 alternate, moderate, half-round, notched; bundle-trace 1, curved, 

 compound; stipule-scars none. Fruit a dry capsule, persistent 

 into winter. 



