222 VACCINIACE.E. 



5. V. vaccillans Kalvi : branches angular, smooth ; leaves oval, elliptic or 

 obovate, serrulate, smooth on both sides, acute or rather obtuse, mucronu- 

 late ; racemes very short, clustered ; corolla campanulate-cylindric. ( Torr. 

 N. Y. Fl.) % 



Woods and thickets. N. Y. Torr. May. \i.—Stem 1—2 feet high, much 

 branched. Leaves an inch or more long, deciduous. Flowers greenish-white 

 tinged with red, on short pedicels. Berry dark-blue, glaucous, very sweet. It 

 has probably been confounded with V. Pennsylvanicum. 



Sugar Whortleberry. 



6. V. Pennsylvanicum Lam. : branches angular, (green ;) leaves sessile, 

 ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, mucronate, serrulate, smooth and 

 shining on both surfaces ; fascicles of flowers subterminal ; corolla ovoid. 

 V. virgatum Ait. V. ten£llum Pursh. 



Dry hills. N. Y. to Geor. May, June, f^ .—Stem 12—18 inches high, much 

 branched. Flowers pale red, 6—8 in a fascicle. Berry large, bluish-black, 

 somewhat glaucous, sweet. Low Blue Whortleberry. 



7. V. co7-ymbosum Linn. : flower-bearing branches almost leafless ; leaves 

 oblong-oval, rather acute at each end, nearly entire, the young ones pu- 

 bescent ; racemes short, sessile, bracteate ; corolla cylindric-ovoid. V. 

 amxnum Pursh. V. disomorphum Mich. 



Swamps and wet woods. Can. to Virg. June. T^. — Stem 4 — 8 feet high, 

 with a few straggling branches. Flowers purplish-white, in racemes which are 

 crowded near the summit of the naked branches. Berry large, purplish-black 

 subacid. High Swamp Whortleberry. 



8. V. Canadense Kalm : flower-bearing branches leafy ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, very entire, acute, and with the branches covered with a white 

 pubescence; flowers in crowded racemes ; corolla ovoid-campanulate. {Torr. 

 N. Y. Ft.) V. disomorphum Big. not of Mich. 



Swamps. Can. and Western N. Y. May,#une. Yi.—Stem 1—2 feet high, 

 with numerous warty branches. Leaves about an inch and a half long. Ra- 

 cemes numerous, few-flowered. Corolla reddish-white. Berry bluish-black, 

 sweet. - Resembles- the preceding, for which it has probably been mistaken. 



Black Bilberry. 



9. V. tenellum Ait. : leaves oblong-elhptic, subcuneiform, serrulate, nearly 

 omooth ; racemes bracteate, sessile, few-flowered. 



Boston, Mass. Big. IN. J. and Penn. Muhl. April, May. — A low shrub 

 growing in patches. Howjcrs in short crowded clusters, reddifih- white. Berry 

 large, blue, agreeable. Dwarf Whortleberry. 



10. V. ligustrinum Mich. : branches angular and erect ; leaves subses- 

 sile, erect, lanceolate, mucronate, serrulate jMbcicles gemmaceous, sessile ; 

 flowers nearly sessile ; corolla oblong-ovoid. 



Dry woods. Penn. and Virg. May, June. — A small shrub with straight 

 and slender branches. FZo?«ers purphsh-red. .Berry black. It is said to vary 

 very much in the shape and size of its leaves. Privet-like WhortM)erry. 



b. Flowers solitary and axillary. 



11. V. uliginosum Linn. : procumbent; branches rigid; leaves obovate, 

 very obtuse, entire, smooth above, veined and glaucous beneath; flowers 

 subsolitary, octandrous ; corolla short, urceolate, 4 — 5-cleft ; anthers awned 

 on the back. V. uliginosum var. alpinum Big. 



White Hills, N. H. Essex county, N. Y. N. to Arct. Amer. July ^— A pro- 

 cumbent shrub with numerous erect branches 6 — 12 inches high. Leaves about 



