20 ERICACEAE. Vaccinium. 



G. ursina, Torr. & Gray. Somewhat pubescent, 2 to 4 feet Iiigh : leaves green and 

 membranaceous, lanceolate-obovate or oblong, acuminate (2 to 4 inches long), loosely 

 veiny : bracts lather scaly, caducous: anthers with very short tips: fruit reddish, turning 

 black, insipid (Bear Hlcklebkrry). — Gray, Chloris, 49, t. 10; Chapm. Fl. 258. Vac- 

 cinium ursinum, iV[. A. Curtis in Amer. Jour. Sci. xliv. 82. — Moist woods, confined to the 

 mountains of the southern part of North Carolina and adjacent parts of South Carolina, 

 Curtis, Buckle//, &c. 

 •i— -i— Branches erect : flowers short-pedicelled in short sessile racemes: corolla ovate-conical and 



5-angular, becoming campanulate or cyliiulraceous, reddish, as are Ihe scale-like caducous 



ovate bracts. 



G. resinosa, Torr. & Gray. A foot to a yard high, rigid, glabrous or minutely pubes- 

 cent, when young very clammy : leaves yellowish-green, from oval to lanceolate-oblong, 

 commonly obtuse, raucronulate, of rather firm texture and paler bencatli when mature : 

 racemes secund, drooping, 5-8-flowered : corolla 2 or o lines long : anthers with tubular 

 tips : fruit black, rarely varying to white, witliout bloom, pleasant (the common IIuckle- 

 BEURY or Clack Huckleberry of the market). — Vaccinium resinosum. Ait. Kew. 1. c. ; 

 Michx. Fl. i. 232 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1238. V. parviflomm, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 12-3. Andromeda 

 baccata, Wang. Amer. Ill, t. 30, fig. Gd. Decameriuni resinosum, Nutt. 1. c. — Rocky wood- 

 lands and swamps, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan and south to Upper Georgia. Tlie 

 only species in the northern Mississippi States, where it is rare. 



2. VACCfNIUM, Li. Blueberry, Bilberry, or .sometimes Huckle- 

 berry, and Cranberry. (Classical Latin name.) — Shrubs or sutfruticose plants 

 (chiefly of the northern hemisphere), with either deciduous or evergreen leaves ; 

 the flowers white or reddish, either solitary in the axils, or in racemes or fascicles, 

 mostly nodding. Corolla small, of thinnish texture, and various in form. Sta- 

 mens 8 or more, commonly 10 : filaments usually hairy or ciliate : anthers awned 

 on the back or awnless, opening by a terminal hole or slit of the. tubular apex of 

 each cell. Flowers in spring: berries ripe in summer or autumn, sweetish or 

 sometimes acid, mostly edible. — Vaccinium & Oxycoccus, Pers. ; Benth. & Hook, 

 Gen. ii. 573, 575. The following are excluded, viz.: — 



V. MUCRONATiTM, L., wliicli was founded, not on "one of the Mespilus or Pi/rus tribe," as 

 Smith opined, but on a fruiting specimen of Nemopanthes Canadensis. 



V. ALBUM, L., founded on a specimen of Lonicera ciliata, from Kalm, who sent it as a Vac- 

 cinium with white berries. 



V. LiGUSTRiNUM, L., foundcd on a specimen of Andromeda paniculata, also from Kalm. 



V. GLABRU.M, Wats. Dcndr. Brit. t. 125, d., probably Gai/lussacia resinosa. 



V. OBTUsuM, Pursh, from Oregon, collected by Menzies, probably Gaidtheria Mipsinitcs. 



V. niiMirusuM, Graham in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 1831, 8, probably also G'ault/ieria ^/lJrsinilcs. 



§ 1. Batodenpron, Gray. Corolla open-campanulate, 5-lobed : anthers 

 tipped with long and slender tubes, and 2-awned on the back : ovary and (hardly 

 edible or mawkish) berry spuriously 10-celled (ripening in autumn) : leaves decidu- 

 ous, but of rather firm texture: flowers axillary and solitary or in leafy-bracted 

 racemes, slender-pedicelled : bractlets minute or none. — Chloris, 1. c. 52. 



* Flower articulated with its pedicel: anthers included: berry black, many-seeded. { Bntodcndron, 

 Nutt. Tnins. .\ni. rtiil. Soc, ser. 2, viii. 20L) 



V. arboreum, Marshall. (Farkle- or Sparkle-berrv.) Shrub to 25 feet high, 

 with spreading branches, glabrous or .somewiiat pubescent : leaves tliinnish-coriaceous, very 

 smontli and shining above, reticulate-veiny, obscurely glandidar-denticnlate or entire, from 

 obovate or round-oval to oblong: flowers profuse, axillary along the branches and leafy- 

 racemose : corolla white, moderately 5-lobed : awns of anthers more than half the length 

 of the tubular tips : berry globose, small, with a dry rather astringent pulp. — Arbust. 157 ; 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1885. V. diffusum, Ait. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1G07. V. mucronalum, Walt., not L. 



