DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS ETe 
a little narrowed at the throat, white or pinkish. Berry blue, with 
much bloom, ripening earlier than the other eatable species, sweeter 
than No. 1, but not so high-flavored. In dry or sandy soil, espe- 
cially N. 
3. V. stamineum, L. DEERBERRY, SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY. An 
erect shrub, 3-10 ft. high; branches widely spreading, twigs smooth 
or minutely downy. Leaves deciduous, oval or oblong, acute or 
taper-pointed at the apex, obtuse or slightly heart-shaped at the 
base, firm, smooth, and green above, pale and slightly downy 
-beneath, petioled. Racemes with leaf-like bracts. Flowers numer- 
ous, drooping, on jointed, slender pedicels. Corolla bell-shaped, 
purplish-green, 2-awned anthers and style projecting. Berry glo- 
bose or pear-shaped, inedible. Dry woods.* 
4. V. arboreum, Marsh. FARKLEBERRY. ‘Tree-like, sometimes 
30 ft. high; bark gray; twigs slender, smooth or downy. Leaves 
deciduous, ovate or oval, mucronate, entire or glandular-dentate, 
leathery, green above, often slightly downy beneath. Racemes with 
leaf-like bracts; pedicels slender, drooping. Corolla campanulate, 
white. Anthers included; style projecting. Berry globose, black, 
mealy, ripening in winter. Common in dry, open woods.* 
5. V. macrocarpon, Ait. CRANBERRY. Stems creeping, thread- 
like, 1-3 ft. or more in length, the branches not quite erect, some- 
times 8 in. high. Leaves usually oval or oblong, obtuse, thickish, 
evergreen, the younger ones with the margins somewhat rolled 
under. Flowers nodding. Petals strongly reflexed, deep rose-red 
inside at the base, pale pinkish or almost white at the tips. Sta- 
mens with the filaments hardly } as long as the anthers. Fruit red 
or reddish-purple, ellipsoidal or nearly globose, very acid, much 
valued for sauce, pies, and petties: Common in peat-bogs and wet 
meadows N. 
76. PRIMULACEZ. Primrose FAMILY. 
Herbs, with simple leaves, often most or all of them radi- 
cal. Flowers perfect and regular, generally gamopetalous. 
Stamens commonly 5, inserted on the corolla, opposite its 
lobes. Pistil consisting of a single stigma and style and a 
(generally free) 1-celled ovary, with a free central placenta. 
I. DODECATHEON, L.’° 
A smooth, perennial herb, with a cluster of oblong or spatu- 
late root-leaves, fibrous roots, and an unbranched scape, 
