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Though in reaUty a shrub, — which means that it is a woody- 

 plant whose stems do not die down to the ground in the 

 winter, — the Httle Mountain Cranberry is placed in this Sec- 

 tion, where most readers will look for it. 



SMALL CRANBERRY 



Oxy coccus vitlgan's. Huckleberry Family 



Branches ascending. Stems: very slender, creeping, rooting at the 

 nodes. Leaves: thick, evergreen, ovate, entire, the margins revolute. 

 Flowers: umbellate, nodding on erect filiform pedicels; corolla pink. 

 Fruit : berry globose, acid. 



A creeping shrub, with alternate leaves that are dark green 

 above and white beneath. It is very delicately formed and 

 resembles a slender trailing vine far more than a shrub, which 

 latter word we are accustomed by common usage to apply only 

 to tall, stout, or bushy plants. The four or five tiny, narrow, 

 pink divisions of the corolla are spread wide open and reveal the 

 anthers con\-erging into a cone, which is extremely prominent 

 when the flower is expanded. The fruit is a round, red, juicy, 

 many-seeded berry. This Cranberry grows chiefly in marshy 

 places and swamps, also along the margins of lakes and pools. 



RED BEARBERRY 



A)xiostap]iyIos Ui'a-iirsi. Heath I-'amily 



Diffusely much branched, and rooting at the nodes. Leaves: oblong- 

 spatulate, obtuse, tapering into a short ])ctiole. Flowers: few, in short 

 racemes; corolla ovoid, constricted at the throat. Fruit: globose, drupe 

 red, glabrous, containing five coalescent nudets. 



Another trailing shrub which is exceedingly handsome ; it 

 grows in depressed patches several feet in diameter, from a 

 single main root. It is usually foimd creeping over dry gravelly 

 places, and covering the rocks with its bright little evergreen 

 leaves. In the autunm these leaves tin-n bronze, and lovely 

 .scarlet, dry, berry -like fruits gem the spreading branches. 



