^00 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 



pie. J7, 



10 flowered. Peduncles stior^ 



S—4 br cteas at the base of each roroUa long, slightij an led, 



white, sometimes tinged with red. Filaments very hairy. JSerrigs- 

 small, black. *^ 



Grows in damp, close soils. 



Flowers March. Ripens its fruit In June, 



14. Tene 



^^ V. ramis aiigiilatis ; fo- 1 Branches angled ; leaves 

 His sessilibus, ovato-lan- j sessile, ovate lanceolate, 

 ceolatis, niucronatis, ser- 

 rulatis, utrinque lucidis; 

 fasciculis suhterminali- 



m 



cid on each side ; fasci- 



ewhat terminal.. 



bus, confertifloris. Pursh, j closel}' flowered 



4. p. 288. 



Sp. pi. 2. p. 353. 



V. Pennsjlvanicum .» Mich. 1 p. 232. 



A low, branching shrub ; branches green. Cahjx ^r^Ga. Corolla 

 ovate, pale red. Berries large, bluish black. Pursh. 

 Grows m drj, gravelly soils. Georgia; Mich. 

 1' lowers 



.l 



1». Myrtilloides ? Mich. 



V. foliis lanceolatis, I Leaves lanceolate, 



membranaceis, crenula- | membranaceous, crcnii- 

 tis, glabris ; floribus spar- late, glabrous ; flowers 

 sfe, subsolitariis. \ scattered, ffenerally soU- 



Micl 



Pursh, 1. p. 288. 



tary 



*^^amm ' f'l' 7'? ?"u'' hesitation, a shrub found in our deep river 

 tra^sLsik llf',^^^^?,'''"^ '^'•^'^^'^^^ «^«"der, diflused. leaves 



The corolla I have not seen. 



blowers R,^ens its fruit in June! 



EPIG^A. Gen. pl. 748. 



J^alyjv 5 pai titus, extus I Calyx 5 parted, \vith S 

 tnbracteatis. Corolla hy. | bracteas at base. Cord- 



t- 



