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nally pubescent. Stamina included; filaments hirsute, 

 equal in length with 'Jie anthers opening- by 2 terminal 

 pores, each pore bicornute. Torus, internally 10-iootbed, 

 dentures alternating with the stamina. Style cylindric 

 tubulous, the base immersed in the germ: stigmas 5, in- 

 ternally adnate. Germ roundish, 5-angled, 5-celled, cells 

 about 20-seeded. Seeds attached to the 5 lobes ot ihe 

 central ax-is. — Very nearly allied to Pyrola^ although mono- 

 petalous. 2- Shallon. Ph. Apparently an Arbutus; the ca- 

 iix is not caliculate, the peduncle appears to be merely 

 bibracteolate below the middle. 



Of this small genus tliere appears to be 4 other species 

 indigenous to the mountains of tropical America, and 1 in 

 New Zealand. 



379. VACCINIUM. i. (Whortle-berry, Huckle- 

 berry.) 



Calix superior, 4 or o-toothed. Corolla wv- 

 ceolate or campaiuilate, 4 or 5-cleft; border re- 

 flected. Filaments inserted upon the germ. 

 Berry 4 or 5-celled, many-seeded. (Stamina 

 sometimes 8.) 



SufFruticose or shrubby, gemmaceous; bud scales often 

 persistent, on the base of the small branches; leaves alter- 

 nate in some species sempervirent; often scattered with 

 resinous atoms; flowers pedicellate, solitary, axillary fas- 

 ciculate, or racemose, iierrles edible, mostly dark pur- 

 ple. 



§ I. Leaves deciduous. 



Species. l.V staminenm. Berries large, partly pyriform 

 and green when npe; bitter and scarcely edible. 2. album. 

 5. arboreum. The largest species of the genus in North 

 America; branches divaricated; flowers partly as in V. sta- 

 mineum; berries rather dry but sweet, with a granular 

 pulp. 4. dnmosiim. Very low, and running profusely; ber- 

 ries perfecdy black, to appearance, conspicuously crown- 

 ed by the persistent calix. 5. frondosum. Berries and 

 under side of the leaves glaucous; fruit large and rarely 

 copious; agreeble, but quickly deliquescent and subject 

 to be infested by the larva of insects. 6. pallidum. T.resi- 

 nosum. Flowers reddish, angular. Fruit not much esteem- 

 ed. 8. corymbosum. Fruit subacid, and agr.-eable, as well 

 ■ as that of the following. 9. amoetum. \Q. virgatuin. 11. 

 fuscaium. 12. galezans. 13. liffustrinum. 14. teneUnm. 

 Sometimes called " Sugar Huckleberries," small aud ra- 



