Vaccinium 



Ericaceae 



741 



50 



Map 1581 



Gaylussacia baccata (Wang.) K. Koch 



50 



Map 1583 

 Vaccinium stamineum 

 var. neglectum (Small) Deam 



Shrubs of dry soils or moist sandy soil, mostly less than 5 dm high except in 5a. 

 Leaves glabrous or pubescent on the midribs beneath at fruiting time. 



Fresh leaves green beneath, serrulate ; fruit with a bloom 



4. V. angustifolium. 



Fresh leaves glaucous beneath, entire or serrulate; fruit with or without 

 a bloom. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, serrulate; fruit without a bloom. 



4a. V. angustifolium var. nigrum. 



Leaves obovate to oval or broadly oblong, entire or serrulate; fruit with a 



bloom 5. V. vacillans. 



Leaves more or less pubescent all over the under surface at fruiting time. 

 Blades obovate to oval, ovate or broadly oblong, usually about 30 mm long 



and 15 mm wide, never all of them entire; shrubs up to 1.5 m high 



5a. V. vacillans var. crinitum. 



Blades oval to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, usually about 20 mm long and 

 10 mm wide, margins always entire; low shrubs, generally less than 0.5 



m high 6. V. canadense. 



Stems trailing and creeping; leaves evergreen; corolla 4-parted; fruit reddish. 



Bracts of the pedicel above the middle of the pedicel, generally green, flat, 3 mm 

 long or longer, and more than 1 mm wide; margin of leaves only slightly 



inrolled, elliptic in outline 7. V. macrocarpon. 



Bracts of the pedicel generally about the middle of the pedicel or lower, mostly 

 somewhat colored, generally very thin, involute; margins of leaves strongly 

 inrolled, becoming triangular in outline 8. V. Oxycoccos. 



1. Vaccinium stamineum L. (Ashe. Polycodium. Jour. Elisha Mitchell 

 Scien. Soc. 46: 196-213. 1931.) (Polycodium stamineum (L.) Greene.) 

 Deerberry. Map 1582. A shrub mostly of wooded slopes in the unglaciated 

 region where it is generally associated with black and chestnut oaks and 

 sometimes with Virginia pine. I have it also from a woods in the "flats" 

 of Switzerland County about 2 miles southeast of Fairview, where it was 

 associated with white oak, and from a low woods in an old lacustral bed 

 in Crawford County about 3 miles northwest of Leavenworth where it 

 was associated with pin oak, sweet gum, and red maple. 



Mass. to Ont., southw. to n. Ga., and westw. to Ind., Ky., and Tenn. 



