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ERICACEJE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 
or sometimes 8-10 celled by a false partition stretching from the 
back of each cell to the placenta. — Shrubs with solitary, cluster¬ 
ed, or racemed flowers : the corolla white or reddish. (An an¬ 
cient Latin name, of obscure derivation.) 
§ 1. Oxycoccus, Tourn. — Ovary 4-celled : corolla 4-paried , the don - 
gated divisions renolute : anthers 8, aicnless : filaments smooth : pe¬ 
duncles slender. (Berries red and acid; stems trailing , and the 
small leaves evergreen with revolute margins in the true Cranberries.) 
1. V. Oxycoccus, L. (Small Cranberry.) Stems very 
slender, creeping; leaves ovate , acute , glaucous underneath; pedun¬ 
cles (2-4 together) terminal; filaments more than half the length of 
the anthers. (Oxycoccus vulgaris, Pursh.) —Peat-bogs, N. England 
to Wisconsin northward. June. — Much rarer than the next, and 
smaller in all its parts. Berry globular, purple-scarlet, hardly broad, 
seldom sufficiently abundant to be collected for the market. 
2. V. macroc&rpon, Ait. (Common American Cranber¬ 
ry.) Stems elongated, creeping, the flowering branches ascending; 
leaves oblong , obtuse , glaucous underneath ; peduncles lateral , from the 
base of the young shoots; filaments scarcely one third the length of 
the anthers. (O. macrocarpus, Pers .) — Peat-bogs, common, espe¬ 
cially northward. June. — Stems 2°-39 long; the leaves about £' 
long. Corolla rose-color. Berry fully broad, often oblong, light 
scarlet. 
§2. Vitis-Id&a, Tourn. — Ovary 4-5 -celled: corolla bdl-shaped 
or globular , 4-5 -lobed: anthers 8 — 10, awnless: filaments hairy: 
flowers in short bracted racemes: leaves evergreen; berries red or 
purple. 
3. V. Yitis-Id^a, L. (Cowberry.) Low ; branches erect 
from tufted creeping stems; leaves obovate, with revolute margins, 
smooth and shining above, dotted with blackish bristly points under¬ 
neath; flowers crowded in terminal and one-sided nodding racemes; 
corolla bell-shaped, 4-cleft. — Higher mountains of New England, 
also on the coast of Maine, and at Danvers, Massachusetts, Oakes . 
June.— Plant 6'-10'high, dark green; the berries dark red, acid 
and rather bitter, mealy, barely edible. 
§ 3. Batod£ndron.— Ovary more or less completely 10 -celled by f* lse 
partitions: corolla spreading-campanulate , 5 -lobed : anthers 2 -awn- 
ed on the back: filaments hairy : berries mawkish and scarcely edible', 
ripening few seeds: flowers solitary on slender bractlets in the axils 
of the upper leaves, forming a sort of leafy racemes. 
4. V. stamineuin, (Deerberry. Squaw Huckleberry ) 
Diffusely branched (29 - 39 high), somewhat pubescent; leaves ovate 
or oval, pale, whitish underneath, deciduous; tubes of the anthers 
much longer than the corolla, short-awned ; berries globular or pear 
