DECANDRTA MONOGYNIA* 



49? 



'4vhorlle or huckle berries. They are among the most agreeable fruite 

 which our forests produce. 



Grows in dry soils, moderately fertile. 



Flowers April 



y — Jun 



7. DCMOSUM. 



V. punctatum ; foliis 



Dotted 

 neato-obovatis, mucrona- ! ate obov 



foil 



fl 



leaves cune*i 



e, mucronate^ 



acemes leafy; 



flowers solitary, axillary ; 



ilIarii)us;antherisiiHlusis. anthers included 



Botan. Mag. 1106. Pursh, l.p. 285. 

 V. frondosum Mich. 1. p. 230- 



A small shrub, with creeping roots. iS^^m erect, about a foot high ;^ 

 the young branches, with the leaves, peduncles and calyx, roughened 

 ^,^u -.i«„.i..t-_ .i.x. Leaves nearly sessile, finely serrulate, witli the 



CoroUa angled, white; Uti/U 



^vith glandular dots. 



margins revolute. Flowers nodding. 



its long as the corolla. 



Berries nt . ^ 



Grows in dry* s^ndy soils. 



Flowers April. Ripens its fruit in June. 



8. Frondosum. 



V. foliis ovali-lanceo- 



Leaves oval lanceolate^ 

 latis, iiitegeiTimis, obtu- | entire, obtuse, rugose^ 

 sis, rugosis, subglaucis, | somewhat glaucous, pu- 

 pubescentibus, glandulis- | bescent, and sprinkled 

 que irroratis ; raceniis | with glandular dots ; ra- 

 paucifloris, bracteatis ; CO- t cemes few flowered, brae- 



rollis globoso-campanula- 



tis: antheiis inclusi 



s. 



E. 



teate ; corolla globose 

 canipanulate ; anthers in-^ 

 rluded. 



Sp. pL 2. p. S52. Pursh, 1. p. £85* 

 V. glaucum, Mich. 1. p. 2SI. 



A shrub about 3 feet high- branching, with the young branches pUr 

 bescent. Leaves nearly sessile, slightly pubescent, sprinkled, as <vell as 

 the short petioles and young branches, with glandular dots. Racemes 

 €-"8 flowered, proceeding from the summit of the last year's wood, 

 therefore below the leaves, liraeteas^ one obovate, pubescent, at the 

 base of each petiole, and txvo linear, glabrous, on each potiole. fV 

 rolla white, tinned with red, contracted at the mouth, and approach* 

 ing to the urceolate form. Berries large, blue. 



This is our most common species of Vaccinium. and produces tfe^ 



best flnvmirpf! frill* 



Grows in close soils. 



Fl 



Ripens its fruit in J«n 



V 3 



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