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sides ; racemes bracteate; pedicels short, axillary, subsolitary ; 

 corolla campanulate; segments rounded; anthers included. 

 Bot. Masr.WOG. Pursh F/. I. p. 285. Elliott Sk.\. 

 p. 497. V. frondusum Mich. Fl. I. p. 230. V. hirldlum 

 Hort. KeiD. ed. 2. II. p. 357. 



A shrub about a foot or 18 inches high, with long creeping roots, 

 branched above, often naked below. Leaves an inch long, 

 somewhat shining, conspicuously sprinkled with resinous clots ; 

 margin slightly revolute. Bacetnes lateraF, leafy ; ptdiceU 

 somewhat recurved, bibracteate at the middle. CaLijx glandu- 

 lar ; segments ovate, acute. Corolla large, white, exactly 

 campanulate. Stamens one-third shorter than the corolla ; 

 anthers naked at the base, bifid ; segments simple. Style as 

 long as the corolla. Berries large, a little depressed, black 

 and shining, crowned with the large persistent calyx. 



Hab. In sandy pine woods and in sphagnous swamps. Abundant 

 in the pine barrens of New-Jersey, Sec. June. 



3. \ . frondosum L. : leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, very 

 entire, and sprinkled with resinous atoms beneath, glaucous ; 

 racemes loose, bracteate ; pedicels long, filiform ; corolla 

 ovate-campanulate ; anthers included. W il I d. Spec. II. p. 

 352. Mil. Kew. II. p. 11. Bot. Rep. 140. Pursh Fl. 

 L p. 285. Elliott Sk. I. p. 497. V. glaucum M i c h, 

 FL L p. 231. 



A shrub 3 — 5 feet high. Leaves an inch and a half long, gene- 

 rally obtuse, oval or obovate, dull, subsessile. Racemes lateral, 

 few-flowered ; pedicels smooth, bracteate, at length elongated 

 and pendulous. Corolla small, white, a little contracted at the 

 orifice. Anthers naked at the base. Style scarcely exserted ; 

 stigma margined. Berries large, blue, glaucoiis, nearly glo- 

 bular, very agreeable to eat. 



Hab. In sandy woods and in swamps ; common. Blue-tangles. 

 The berries of this species, and of No. 7, form the prin- 

 cipal part of the fruit sold under the name of Wbortle-berries 

 or Huckle-berries. 



^ t t Corolla urceolate, 



«e. Flowers racemose., or fasciculate. 



4. V. resinosum '/lit.: leaves petiolate, oblong-oval, 

 mostly obtuse, very entire, sprinkled with resinous atoms be- 

 neath ; racemes lateral, secund, bracteate; corolla ovate-co- 

 nic, pentangular. Willd. Spec. II. p. 352. Ait, Kew. 

 II. p. 1 2. "Bot, Mag. 1 288. M i c h. FL I. p. 230. Purs h 

 Fl. I. 286. B i g." Bost. p. 02. Elliott Sk. I. p. 498. 

 Andromeda baccata Wang, Jimtr. ll.t. 30. f. &^. 



A shrub about 2 feet high, erect, much branched, with the 



