DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 4 
slender racemes, with moderately long pedicels of short, somewhat 
ege-shaped flowers; fruit bluish black with a bloom, sweet, com- 
monly gathered for sale. : 
II. VACCINIUM, BLUEBERRY, CRANBERRY. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla urn-shaped, bell-shaped, or cylin- 
drical, the limb 4 or 5-cleft, reflexed. Stamens 8 or 10, each 
of the anther-ceils prolonged into a tube opening at the 
top. Ovary several to many-ovuled, ripening into a com- 
monly many-seeded berry. The fruit of all the species here 
described excepting V. stamineum, the deerberry, is much 
valued. 
a. (V. PENNSYLVANICUM), Common DwarF BLUEBERRY. A low, 
delicate shrub, 6-15 in. high, with green branches, shining oblong 
leaves, bristly-serrulate and acute at both ends ; flowers in short, close 
racemes, oblong or nearly so, with the anthers enclosed in the corolla- 
tube; berries 10-celled, many-seeded, somewhat flattened, usually 
with much bloom, sweet, the earliest blueberries in the market. 
b. (V. VACILLANS), Low BLUEBERRY. A low bushy shrub, 1-3 
ft. high; leaves obovate to oval, acute, entire or nearly so, dull, pale 
green, smooth beneath ; racemes dense, appearing before the leaves 
are fully grown; berries 10-celled, not large, sweet, bluish black. 
ce. (VY. CORYMBOSUM), SwAMP BLUEBERRY, HiGH BLUEBERRY. 
A tall, rather erect shrub, 5-10 ft. high ; leaves from oval to broadly 
lanceolate, in some varieties smooth, in others downy ; berries 10- 
celled, generally with a bloom, more acid and frequently larger than 
in the two preceding species, ripening later. Occurs in low wet 
woods or in swamps ; very variable. 
d. (V. STAMINEUM), DEERBERRY, SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY. A 
somewhat downy shrub, 2-35 ft. high; leaves ovate, oval or oval- 
lanceolate, acute, dull and pale, smooth beneath ; pedicels solitary 
in the axils; corolla spreading, bell-shaped, greenish or whitish ; 
anthers 10, projecting from the corolla-tube ; fruit greenish white, 
10-celled, few-seeded, barely eatable. 
e. (V. MACROCARPON), CRANBERRY. A delicate creeping plant, 
with barely woody stems 1—5 feet long; leaves evergreen, oblong, 
obtuse, white beneath, with the edges somewhat rolled under ; 
pedicels slender, axillary, 1-flowered; corolla_pale rose-color, parted 
into 4 linear-lanceolate, reflexed divisions; stamens 8; berries 4- 
celled, many-seeded, somewhat spherical or ellipsoidal, large, in some 
localities reddish purple, in others deep purple, very acid. Grows 
usnally in peat-bogs or in meadows which are sometimes overflowed. 
