AQUIFOLIACE^. 633 



Order ERICACE^. 



VACCINIUM, L. 



V. formosum, Andr. Stem smooth ; leaves thickish (partly peren- 

 nial), ovate or oblong, entire, smooth, or pubescent beneath ; racemes 

 axillary; corolla cylindrical, red. — Florida (//eri. Durand). —Stem 2°-3° 

 high. Leaves Y-2' long. 



V. virgatum, Ait. Stem smooth, the branches and young leaves 

 downy; leaves thickish, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire; racemes 

 mostly on naked branches ; corolla cylindrical, wiiite, or red like the bracts ; 

 berry black. — Low pine barrens, Florida to South Carolina. March. — Stem 

 2° -4° high. Leaves V or less long. 



V. vacillans, Solander. Stem smooth, with yellowish shining brandies ; 

 leaves ovate or obovate, nearly entire, pale and glaucous ; corolla oblong- 

 bell-shaped, wliite ; berry blue. — Mountains of Georgia and North CaroUna, 

 and northward. April. — Stem l°-2° higli. Leaves l'-2' long. 



CHIOGENES, Salisb. Creeping Snowberry., 



Calyx 4parted. Corolla bell-shaped, 4-cleft. Stamens 8 : anther-cells 

 unawned, opening from tlie tip to tlie middle. Berry white, globular, 4-celled, 

 many-seeded. — A small creeping evergreen. Leaves ovate, acute, the mar- 

 gins revolute, the lower surface, like tlie margins, bristly. Flowers small, 

 axillary, white, nodding. 



G. hispidula, Torr. & Gray. — Damp woods. Mountains of North Car- 

 olina, and northward. 



RHODODENDRON, L. 



R. Vaseyi, Gray. Low and bushy ; branches smooth : leaves thin, ovate- 

 oblong, acuminate, acute at base; pedicels glandular, at length recurved; 

 calyx siiort, truncate; corolla smooth, rose-color, rotate-campanulate, nearly 

 equally 5-parted, the lobes obovate ; stamens and style slightly exserted ; 

 capsule oblong, smooth. {Grai/.} — Balsa Mountain, North Carolina (R. 

 Vasey). 



Order AQUIFOLIACE^. 



ILEX, L. 



I. mollis, Gray. Leaves thin, oval or oblong, acuminate, sharply ser- 

 rulate, downy ; sterile flowers very numerous, in umbel-like clusters, the 

 pedicels shorter than the petiole, soft-downy, like the calyx ; fertile pedun- 

 cles very short. — Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. 



I. montieola, Gray. Leaves thin, ovate or lance-oblong, acuminate, 

 smooth, sharply serrate ; fertile flowers very short-peduncled ; calyx ciliate. 

 (I. ambigua, Toir.) — Mountains of North Carolina (Gray). — Leaves 8' -5' 

 long. 



