Vor. II] HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 581 
2 CHIOGENES Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. onde 294. | 1815. 
Creeping prostrate evergreen branching shrubs, with alternate 2-ranked oval or ovate 
small leayes, and solitary axillary small white flowers, on short recurved peduncles. Calyx- 
tube adnate to the lower half of the ovary, 2-bracted at the base, its limb 4-cleft. Corolla 
short-campanulate, 4-cleft, its lobes rounded, Stamens 8, included; filaments short, nearly 
orbicular, roughish; anthers not awned nor prolonged into tubes, each sac 2-cuspidate at 
the apex and opening by a slit down to the middle. Ovary 4-celled, surmounted by the 8- 
lobed disk; style short. Berry globose to oval, snow-white, many-seeded, rather mealy. 
(Greek, snow-born, in allusion to the berries. ] 
A monotypic genus of North America and Japan. 
1. Chiogenes hispidula (L.) T. & G. 
Creeping Snowberry. (Fig. 2798.) 
Vaccinium hispidulum 1. Sp. Pl. 352. 1753. 
C. serpyllifolia Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 2: 94. 1815. 
Chiogenes hispidula T. & G.; Torr. Fl. N. Y. 1: 450. 1843. 
Chiogenes Japonica A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 26. 1878. 
Branches strigose-pubescent, very slender, 3/—r12’ long. 
Leaves coriaceous, persistent, oval, ovate, or slightly ob- 
ovate, short-petioled, acute at the apex, rounded or nar- 
rowed at the base, dark green, glabrous above, entire, 
sprinkled with appressed stiff brownish hairs beneath and 
on the revolute margins, 2’’-5’’ long; flowers few, solitary, 
axillary, nodding, about 2’’ long; berry aromatic, usually 
minutely bristly, crowned by the 4 calyx-teeth, becoming 
almost wholly inferior, about 3/’ in diameter. 
In cold wet woods and bogs, Newfoundland to British Co- 
lumbia, south to North Carolina and Michigan. Ascends to 
5200 ft. in New Hampshire. May-June. Fruit ripe Aug.- 
Sept. Flavor of Sweet Birch. 
4. OXYCOCCUS Hill, British Herbal, 324. 1756. 
([ScHOLLERA Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. 1: 170. 1788.] 
Glabrous, or slightly pubescent, trailing or erect shrubs, with alternate nearly sessile 
leaves, and axillary or terminal, solitary or few, pendulous or cernuous, slender-peduncled 
red or pink flowers. Calyx-tube nearly hemispheric, adnate to the ovary, the limb 4-5-cleft, 
persistent. Corolla long-conic in the bud, 4-5-parted or 4-5-divided into separate or nearly 
separate petals, these narrow and revolute. Stamens 8 or to, the filaments distinct; anthers 
connivent into a cone, long-exserted when the flower is expanded, upwardly prolonged into 
hollow tubes dehiscent by a pore at the apex. Ovary 4-5-celled; style slender or filiform. 
Fruit an oblong or globose many-seeded juicy red berry. [Greek, sour berry. ] 
Four species, natives of the northern hemisphere. 
Trailing bog shrubs; leaves evergreen, entire; flowers 1-6 from terminal buds. 
Leaves ovate, acute, 2’’-4'’ long; berry globose. 1. O. Oxycoccus. 
Leaves oval or oblong, obtuse, 3'’~7'’ long; berry ovoid or oblong. 2. O. macrocarpa. 
Erect mountain shrub; leaves deciduous, serrulate; flowers solitary, axillary. 3. O. erythrocarpa. 
1. Oxycoccus Oxycoccus (I,.) MacM. Small 
or European Cranberry. (Fig. 2799.) 
Vaccinium Oxycoccus I, Sp. Pl. 351. 1753. 
Oxycoccus palustris Pers. Syn. 1: 419. 1805. 
Schollera Oxycoccus Roth, Fl. Germ. 1: 170. 1788. 
O. Oxycoccus MacM. Bull. Torr. Club, 19:15. 1892. 
Stems very slender, creeping, rooting at the 
nodes, 6/-18’ long. Branches ascending or 
erect, 1/-6/ high; leaves thick, evergreen, ovate, 
entire, acutish at the apex, rounded or cordate 
at the base, dark green above, white beneath, 
2//-4/’ long, 1//-2’’ wide, the margins revolute; 
flowers 1-6, mostly umbellate, rarely racemose, 
from terminal scaly buds, nodding, on erect 
mostly 2-bracteolate filiform pedicels; corolla 
pink, about 4/’ broad, divided nearly to the 
base; filaments puberulent, about half the 
length of the anthers; berry globose, 3//-5’’ in 
diameter, acid, often spotted when young. 
In cold bogs, Labrador to Alaska, New Jersey, 
Michigan and British Columbia. Alsoin Kurope and 
Asia. May-July. Fruitripe Aug-Sept. Also called 
Bog- or Marsh-wort, Moss-, Bog-, Fen- or Moor-berry. 
