S60 EnicACF.^. (heath family.) 



boiuMth ; calyx-tocth obtuse, and, like the pedicels ami broadly oval bracts, red- 

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

 Low pine barrens, Georgia and Florida. March and April. — iSteni l°-a° high. 

 Leaves ^' long. 



7. V. mjnrsinites, 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, purjjlish in the bud ; berry globose, blue. 

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

 A])ril. — t>hi-ub 6' - 1 8' high. Leaves ^' - 1 ' long. 



* * Leaves deciduous. 

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

 branches jiubeseent ; 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-hnear ; beny globose, black or with a 

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

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

 of pine-barren swamps, Florida 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 obtu.'se or rounded 

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

 cylindrical, sliort-pedieelled; calyx-teeth triangular; berry mostly solitary, small, 

 globose, black. (V. myitilloidcs, Ell., not of Michx.) — Kivcr-swamps, Florida 

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

 mostly flexuous. Leaves ^'-|' 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 brandies ; corolla cylindrical or oblong ; berry globose, black 

 or blue. — Margins of ])onds and swam])S, Florida, and northward. Feb. to 

 A]jril. — Varies greatly in the thickness, pubescence, and form uf the leaves, and 

 includes several nominal species. 



11. V. Constablsei, Gray. Stem low (lO-.^^j; leaves oval, pale, glau- 

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

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

 Mountain, North Carolina. July. — Leaves lV-2' long. Kacenies 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 

 Clierokee County, North (,'arolina. Bucklnj. 



