416 DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. vaccimum. 



younger branches pubescent. Leaves at first acute, but when 

 old obtuse, thin, with the resinous dots beneath very conspicu^ 

 ous. Flowers in short lateral racemes or fascicles, small, red, 

 or reddish green, contracted at the orifice. Stamens shorter 

 than the corolla. Style a little exserted ; stigma capitate. 

 Berries globular, biack and shining, sweet. 

 Hab. In woods and on hills; common. May — June. 



Black Whortle-berry. 



5. V. corymhosum L, : floriferous branches nearly leaf- 

 less; leaves oblong-oval, acute at each extremity, nearly en- 

 tire ; the young ones pubescent ; racemes short, sessile, brac- 

 teate; corolla cylindrical-ovate. W il I d. Spec. II. p. 35 K 

 P n r s h Fl. I. p. 286. B i g. Bost. p. 92. Elliott Sk. 

 1. p. 498. V. dismorphum M ich. FL I. p. 23U V. ama- 

 num Ait. Kew. \\,^,\'2. fV i 1 1 d. L c ^. 353, Pursh 

 1. c. p. 287. 



A shrub 4 — 8 feet high, with irregular straggling branches. 

 Leaves when young very pubescent, in maturity nearly smooth 

 above, bu'. S'-mewhat pubescent and pale beneath, mucronate, 

 obsolete iy serrulate. Segments of the calyx erect or reflexed. 

 Flowers much longer than in the preceding species, in sub- 

 corymbose racemes, which are crowded towards the extremity 

 of the leafless branches. Corolla white, often tinged with 

 purple. Stamens included ; filaments nearly as long as the 

 anthers, villous ; anthers without awns. Style exserted ; stig-^ 

 ma capitate. Berries large, black, subacid. 



Hab. In swamps and low woods. May — June. 



High fVhortle-berry. 



6. V. fuscatum -/li t. : racemes somewhat naked ; leaves 

 elliptical, acute, very entire, with the nerves beneath some- 

 what villous ; corolla cylindrical-ovate; calyx acute. Willd. 

 Spec. 11. p. 351. Ait. Kezo.W,^. 11* Pursh Fl.\.^. 



287.? 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg, -f 



This is an obscure species to me ; though I suspect it to be 

 a mere variety of the preceding. Mu hlenber g asks if it 

 is not a variety of V. ■virgaium^ but it appears to be more 

 nearly allied to V. corymbosum^ to which also it is referred by 

 5 m i t h. 



7. V. pennsylvanicum Lara.: branches angular, (green) ; 

 leaves sessile, oval-lanceolate, mucronate, serrulate, shining 

 on both surfaces ; fascicles of flowers crowded, subterminal ; 

 corolla ovate. Lanu Enc. I. p. 72. Mich. FL 1. p. 

 232. V. tenelhtm Pursh FL I. p. 288. V. virgutum 

 Jit. Kexv. II. p. 12? 



A shrub a foot or 18 inches high, very much branched; the 

 branches more or less angular, with the bark of a greenish co- 



