260 ERICACE^. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



beneath ; calyx-teeth obtuse, and, like the pedicels and broadly oval bracts, red- 

 dish; corolla ovoid or obovate, white; berry somewhat pear-shaped, black. — 

 Low pine barrens, Georgia and riorida. March and April. — Stem 1° - 2° high. 

 Leaves ^' long. 



7. V. myrsinites, Michx. Stem much branched, pubescent ; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, oblong, or obovate, bristly-serrulate, shining above, paler beneath, glau- 

 cous when young ; calyx-teeth acute, reddish, like the pedicels and oblong bracts ; 

 corolla cylindrical or obovate, white, purplish in the bud ; berry globose, blue. 

 — Sandy pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. March and 

 April. — Shrub 6' - 1 8' high. Leaves ^' - 1 ' long. 



* * Leaves deciduous. 



8. V. tenellum, Ait. Stem much branched , the spreading greenish 

 branches pubescent ; leaves oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, mucronate, acute at 

 the base, slightly serrulate near the apex, pubescent when young ; corolla oblong, 

 white ; calyx-teeth obtuse ; bracts oblong-linear ; berry globose, black or with a 

 blue bloom. — Varies with the branches and leaves more pubescent, almost vil- 

 lous, and the calyx-teeth nan-ower and acute. (V. galezans, Michx.) — Margins 

 of pine-barren swamps, Plorida to North Carolina, and westward. April. — 

 Shrub l°-3° high. Leaves ^'-1' long, commonly thin and deciduous, but 

 along its southern limits mostly coriaceous and persistent. 



9. V. !Elliottii. Stem tall, slender, with spreading branches ; leaves dis- 

 tichous, ovate-lanceolate, very acute, bristly serrulate from the obtuse or rounded 

 base, pubescent on the veins; clusters sessile, 2-4-flowercd; corolla reddish, 

 cylindrical, short-pedicellcd ; calyx-teeth triangular ; berry mostly solitary, small, 

 globose, black. (V. myrtilloides. Ell., not of Michx.) — Kiver-swamps, Florida 

 to South Carolina. March. — Shrub 4° -8° high; the branches smooth and 

 mostly flcxuous. Leaves j'-i' long. 



10. V. corymbosum, L. Stem tall (4°-10°); leaves varying from 

 ovate-lanceolate to broadly oval, entire or nearly so, pubescent when young, be- 

 coming smoothish especially above (1' -2' long) ; racemes or clusters numerous, 

 mostly on leafless branches ; corolla cylindrical or oblong ; berry globose, black 

 or blue. — Margins of ponds and swamps, Florida, and northward. Feb. to 

 April. — Varies greatly in the thickness, pubescence, and form of the leaves, and 

 includes several nominal species. 



11. V. Constablsei, Gray. Stem low (l°-3°); leaves oval, pale, glau- 

 cous, glandularmucronate, entire or obscurely serrulate, ciliate ; racemes very 

 short, sessile ; corolla short-cylindrical; berry blue. — On the summit of Roan 

 Mountain, North Carolina. July. — Leaves li'-2' long. Kacemcs 5-10- 

 flowered. 



12. V. hirsutum, Buckley. Hirsute throughout; stem low (1° high), 

 much branched ; leaves ovate, entire, slightly mucronate , racemes short, corolla 

 oblong, contracted at the apex, the teeth short; berry globose. — Mountains of 

 Cherokee County, North Carolina. Buckley. 



