ER1CACE5:. 238 VACCINIUM. 



3. V. PeNNSYLVA'NICUM. Lam. V. tenellum. A. 



Leaves subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, often serrulate ; rticevies 

 fasciculate, bracteate, subterminal, sessile ; corolla ovoid ; branches angular, 



freen. The common blue-berry is abundant in dry, hilly pastures, and on 

 io-h mountains, covering extensive patehes. Stems seldom more than a 

 foot high, very branching and leafy. Leaves shming, thin, smooth, an inch 

 or more in length and half as vi^ide. Flowers numerous, in terminal and 

 lateral racemes, often naked. Pedicels shorter than the corolla. Corolla 

 reddish white, contracted at the mouth, longer than the stamens but equaling 

 or shorter than the style. Berries large, blue and somewhat glaucous, sweet 

 and nutricious. May, June. Low Bive-berry. 



* Leaves deciduous. 1 Corolla urceolate. X X Inflorescence solitary. 



4. V. ULIGINO'SUM. L. V. uliginosum, /3. alpinum. Bid. 



Procumbent; leaves obovate, very obtuse, entire, smooth, glaucous and 

 veiny beneath; flowers mostly solitary, axillary; corolla ovoid-globose, 

 4-eleft; stamens 4 ; anthers a.wned at the base. A low, alpine shrub. White 

 Mts. Stems with numerous, rigid branches. Leaves 3 lines long, 2 lines 

 wide near the apex, scarcely petiolate, crowded near the ends of the branches 

 and of a bluish green. Flowers half as long as the leaves, subsessile, some- 

 times 2 together. Berries oblong, deep blue, crowned with the style. June, 

 July. (April, May. Deck.) Mountain Blue-berry, 



* Leaves deciduous, t t Corolla campanulate. 



5. V. STAMI'NEUM. L. v. stamineum &■ album. P. 



Young branches pubescent ; Ipmvcs oval-lanceolate, acute, glaucous beneath ; 

 perficcis solitary, axillary, nodding; corolla campanulate-spreading, segments 

 acute, oblong ; a^iZAcrs exseiled, 2-awned near the base. Dry woods. Shrub 

 2 — 3 feet high, very branching. Leave.s 1—2 inches long, one fourth to ene 

 halt as wide,broadest in tlie upper half, mostly rounded at base and on very short 

 petioles ; those on the slender flowering-branches very much smaller. Flow- 

 ers on long, slender pedicels, arranged in loose, leafy racemes. Corolla white, 

 spreading, stamens conspicuously exserted, but shorter than the style. Ber- 

 ries large, greenish white, bitter. May, June. Deer-berry. 



6. V. FRONDO'SUM. L- V. glaucum. Mz. 



Leaves oblong-obovate, .obtuse, entire, glaucous beneath, covered with 

 minute, resinous dots; ractmes loose, bracteate; perf/cc/^ filiform, bracteate 

 near the middle ; corolla ovoid-campanulate, including the stamens. Grows 

 in open woods. A shrub 3—5 feet high, with round, smooth and slender 

 branches. Leaves twice as long as wide, tapering to each end but broadest 

 in the upper half, the margin slightly revolute. Racemes lateral, few-flow- 

 ered. Pedicels 5—10 lines in length. Flowers emal], nearly globose, reddish 

 white, succeeded by large, globose, blue and sweet berries, covered with a 

 glaucous bloom wlien mature. May, June. High Blue-berry. 



* * Leaves evergreen. 



7. V. VlTlS-lDiE'A. 



Stem creeping ; leaves obovate, denticulate, revolute, dotted underneath, 

 sessile; rorcmcs terminal, nodding. A low, creeping, evergreen shrub, with 

 erect, angular branches. Leaves coriaceous and shining, dark green above, 

 pale bent'ath, 1-2 inch in length, rounded at the apex, and tapering -to the 

 base. Flowers small, nearly sessile. Corolla pale red, oblong-campan-ulate, 

 4-cleft, including the 8 stamens. Berries deep red, very acid and astringent. 

 Grows near the notch of the White Mts. June, July. Cow-berry. 



