414 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. gaultheria. 



specimens I examined, and, with a little care, could be sepa= 

 rated to the base of the fruit. Purs/i represents the plant 

 in a far more luxuriant state than I have ever observed it. 



279. VACCINIUM. L. 



Calyx superior, 4 — 5-tootlied. Corolla urceolate or 

 campanulatc, 4 — 5-cleft. Filaments inserted upon the 

 germen. Berry 4 — 5-celled, many-seeded. Gen. pi. 

 658. Nutt. Gen. 1.^.263. .Tuss. ^. 162. Lam, 

 III. t. 286. Nat. Ord. Erice^ Juss. VAcciNEiE 

 De Cand. Stamens sometimes 8. Whortle-berry*. 



* Leaves deciduous. 

 t Corolla camfianulate, 



1 . V. stamineiim L, : leaves oval, acute, very entire, 

 glaucous beneath; pedicels solitary, axillary, filiform ; corolla 

 spreading-campanulate ; segments oblong, acute ; anthers ex- 

 serted, awned ; berries somewhat pyriform. W i lid. Spec. 

 II. p. 349. .4 it, Keio. II. p. 10. Bot. Rep. 263. Miclu 

 i"/. I.p.227. Pursh Fl.l.lM. E Hi d 1 1 Sk. I. -p. ^96. 

 Walt. Car. p, 139. Gron. Virg. 43. Pluk. Aim. U 

 339. f. 3, 



A shrub 2—3 feet high, much branched ; the younger branches 

 pubescent. Leaves about an inch and a half long, and three- 

 fourths of an inch broad, obtuse or acute, on very short pe- 

 'ioles. Pedicels from one half to three-fourths of an inch long, 

 generally arising from the short lateral branches of the stem, 

 which appear like leafy racemes. Segments of the calyx short, 

 acute. Coro//a white, spreading; lobes somewhat mucronate. 

 Stamens erect; Jilamen:s short; anthers very long, linear, 

 with 2 subulate processes near the base, 2-parted ; the divi- 

 sions tubular, bifid at the extremity. Germen subglobose; 

 style longer than the stamens ; stigma simple. Berries large, 

 greenish-white, scarcely edible. 



Hab. In dry woods and on rocky hills. May — June. Deer-berry. 



/S, album : leaves subpube scent beneath j berries globose^ 

 V. alhum L,? Pursk FL I. p. 285. 



Hab. In the pine barrens of New Jersey. June. 



This, as Smit h remarks, is scarcely even a variety of V. 

 staminemn. 



'2.Y.dumosnm Curt,: younger branches, leaves and 

 racemes sprinkled with resinous atoms; leaves obovate, 

 cuneate at (he base, mucronate, very entire, green on both 



