1168 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
V. montanum Pohl is a diffuse shrub, a native of Brazil, in dry places, with leaves 8 lines long, 
and 4 broad. 
V. cereum Forst. is a small shrub, 6 in. high, a native of Otaheite and Owyhee. 
V. reticulatum Smith is a native of the Sandwich Islands, on the high mountains, where it was 
collected by Mr. Menzies. Leaves 1 in. long, with revolute margins. 
V. pendulifldrum Gaud. is an erect glabrous shrub, a native of the Sandwich Islands, at the alti- 
tude of 500 hexapodes. 
V. microphgllum Herb. Reinwdt. is a shrub, a native of the Celebes, on the mountains. 
V. dentaitum Smith is a native of the Sandwich Islands, on lofty mountains, where it was dis- 
covered by Mr. Menzies. 
V. empetrifilium H. B. et Kunth isa creeping shrub, a native of the western declivity of the 
burning mountain Aritisana, between Pintoc and Pinantura. 
V. pene@oides, V. acumindtum, and V. alaterndides H. B. et Kunth, are South American species, 
of which very little is known, 
Genus XXVII. 
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OXYCO’CCUS Pers. Tue Cranperry. Lin. Syst. Octandria Monogfnia. 
Identification. Pers. Syn., 1. p. 419. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 263.; Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 250. ; 
Don’s Mill, 3. p. 857. 
Synonyme. Vaccinium sp. of Lin. and others. 
Derivation. From owus, sharp, and kokkos, a berry; in reference to the sharp acid taste of the 
berries, 
Description. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla 4-parted, with nearly linear, revo- 
lute segments. Stamens 8, with connivent filaments. Anthers tubular, 
2-parted. Berries many-seeded.—Small, prostrate, trailing, evergreen shrubs, 
with small leaves, growing in boggy morasses, often among living masses of 
Sphagnum. Branches filiform, proliferous. Flowers produced at the base 
of the spring branchlets, in short gemmaceous racemes. Pedicels filiform, 
conspicuously bibracteate. Berries red, rarely white, acid. (Don’s Mill, iii. 
p- 858.) Natives of Britain and North America. 
% 1. O. patu’srris Pers. The marsh, or common, Cranberry. 
Identification. Pers. Ench., 1. p. 419. ; Don’s Mill, 3. p. 858. 
Synonymes. O. vulgaris Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 263., O. europe us Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 251. ; 
Vaccinium Oxycéccus Lin. Sp., 500., Smith Eng. Bot., t. 319.; Cid. Fl. Dan., t. 80.; Vacciniune 
Oxyeéccus var. « ovalifdlius Miche. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 228. ; Vaccinia palastris Ger. Hmac., 1419. 
Lob. Icon., 2. t. 109. ; Oxyeéccum Cord. Hist., 140. 2. f. 1. ; Mossberries, Moorberries, Fenberries, 
Marshworts, or Whortleberries, Cornberries, Eng.; Airelle canneberge, Fr.; gemeine Moose- 
beere, Ger. 
Derivation. The name of Cranberry is supposed to be given from the peduncles of the flowers being 
crooked at the top, and, before the expansion of the flowers, resembling the head and neck of a 
crane (Smith and Withering) ; or because they are much eaten by cranes. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 319. ; Cid. Fl. Dan., t. 80.; Lob. Icon., 2. t. 109. ; and our fig. 992. 
Spec. Char., §c, Stems filiform, trailing. Leaves small, ovate, entire, acute, 
smooth, with revolute margins. Pedicels terminal, 1-flowered, of a delicate 
pink or rose colour. Segments of corolla 
oval. Leaves convex, and dark shining 
green above, and glaucous beneath. Stems 




reddish. Pedicels few together, about the NAL, : 
tops of the branches, red, slightly hoary. va 
Corolla pink, with reflexed oblong seg- UNG ay 


ments. Stamens with purple downy fila- 992 
ments, and yellow anthers. Berries pear- 
shaped, globular, often spotted, crimson, 
of a peculiar flavour, with a strong acidity, 
grateful. (Don’s Mill., iii. p.858.) A low, 
trailing, subevergreen shrub; seldom rising 
higher than 3 in. or 4.in. ; flowering in May and June, and ripening its fruit in 
August and September. It is a native of turfy mossy bogs in the mountainous 
parts of Europe; common in Switzerland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, and the 
north of England, as well as in the east, as in Lincolnshire and the neighbour- 
ing part of Norfolk. Pursh speaks of it as common on the boggy mountains of 
North America, from Canada to Pennsylvania, and in the Island of Oonalashka, 

