20 ERICACEAE. Vaccinium. 



G. ursina, Torr. & Gray. Somewhat pubescent, 2 to 4 feet liigh : leaves green and 

 nienibranaceous, lanceolate-obovate or oblong, acuminate (2 to 4 inches long), loosely 

 veiny : bracts rather scaly, caducous: anthers with very short tips, fruit reddisii, turning 

 black, insipid (Bkar Hucklebkrrv). — Gray, Chloris, 40, t. 10; Cliapni. Fl. 258. Vac- 

 ciniuiii urfsinititi, M. A.Curtis in Ainer. Jour. Sci. xliv. 82. — Moist woods, confined to the 

 mountains of the southern part of North Carolina and adjacent parts of South Carolina, 

 Curtis, Buckley, &c. 



-i~- -i— Branches erect : flowers short-pedicelled in short sessile racemes : corolla ovate-conical and 

 5-aiigiilar, becoming campaniilate or cyliiulraceoiis, reddish, as are the scale-like caducous 

 ovate bracts. 



G. resinosa, Torr. & Gray. A foot to a yard high, rigid, glabrous or minutely pubes- 

 cent, when young very clannny : leaves yellowish-green, from oval to lanceolate-oblong, 

 commonly obtuse, mucronulate, of ratlier firm te.xture and paler bencatli when mature : 

 racemes secund, drooping, 5-8-flowered : corolla 2 or 3 lines long : anthers with tubular 

 tips: fruit black, rarely varying to wliite, witliout bloom, pleasant (the common Huckle- 

 berry or Black Hcckleberry of the market). — Vaccinium resinosum, Ait. Kew. 1. c. ; 

 Michx. Fl. i. 232 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1288. V. parvijiorum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 125.. Andromeda 

 haccata, Wang. Amer. Ill, t. 30, fig. 69. Decamerium resinosuni, Nutt. I.e. — Rocky wood- 

 lands and swamps, Newfoundland to Saskatcliewan and south to Upper Georgia. The 

 only species in the northern Mississippi States, where it is rare. 



2. "VACCINIUM, L. Blueberry, Bilberry, or sometimes Huckle- 

 berry, and Cranberry. (Classical Latin name.) — Shrubs or sutfruticose plants 

 (chiefly of the northern hemisphere), with either deciduous or evergreen leaves ; 

 the flowers white or reddish, either solitary in the axils, or in racemes or fascicles, 

 mostly nodding. Corolla small, of thiniiish texture, and various in form. Sta- 

 mens 8 or more, commonly 10: filaments usually hairy or ciliate : anthers awned 

 on the back or awnless, opening by a terminal hole or slit of the tubular apex of 

 each cell. Flowers in spring: berries ripe in summer or autumn, sweetish or 

 sometimes acid, mostly edible. — Vaccinium & Oxycoccus, Pers. ; Benth. & Hook, 

 Gen. ii. 573, 575. The following are excluded, viz. : — 



V. MUCKONATiTM, L., wliich was founded, not on " one of the Mespilus or Pi/rus tribe," as 

 Smith opined, but on a fruiting specimen of Xemopanlhes Canadensis. 



V. album, L., founded on a specimen of Lonicera ciliata, from Kalm, who sent it as a Vac- 

 cinium with white ben'ies. 



V. LiGUSTRiNUM, L., fouudcd ou a specimen of Andromeda paniculata, also from Kalm. 



V. GLABRUM, AVats. Dcudr. Brit. t. 125, d., probably Gaijlussacia resinosa. 



V. OBTUSUM, Pursh, from Oregon, collected by Menzies, probably Gaultlieria Mipsiniles. 



Y. nuMiFusuM, Graham in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 1831, 8, probably also Gaull/ieria ^fl/rsinites. 



§ 1. B.A.TODENDRON, Gray. Corolla open-campanulate, 5-lobed : anthers 

 tipped with long and slender tubes, and 2-awned on the back : ovary and (hardly 

 edible or mawkish) berry spuriously 10-celled (ripening in autumn) : leaves decidu- 

 ous, but of rather firm texture: flowers axillary and solitary or in leafy-bracted 

 racemes, slender-pedicelled : bractlets minute or none. — Chloris, 1. c. 52. 



* Flower articulated with its pedicel: anthers included: berry black, many-seeded. {Batodendron, 

 Nutt. Trails. Ain. rhil. Soc, ser. 2, viii. 2G1.) 



V. arboreum, Marshall. (Farkle- or Sparkle-berrv.) Shrub n to 25 feet high, 

 with spreading branches, glabrous or somewhat pubescent : leaves thinnish-coriaceous, very 

 smootli and sliining above, reticulate-veiny, obscurely glandular-denticulate or entire, from 

 obovate or ronnd-oval to oblong: flowers profuse, axillary along the branches and leafy- 

 racemose : corolla white, moderately 5-lobed : awns of anthers more than half the length 

 of the tubular tips : berry globose, small, with a dry rather astringent pulp. — Arbust. 157 ; 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1885. V. diffusum, Ait. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1G07. V. mucronatum, Walt., not L. 



