POLYCODIUM AND BATODENDRON. 325 
t. 263. It is credited with having among other characters 
that of a globose berry, that of true P. stamineum being 
pyriform. 
9. P. Frorrpanum. Picrococcus Floridanus, Nutt. l. c. 
The V. stamineum of Elliott may be either this or the pre- 
ceding. It is described as having blue berries that are 
edible, and therefore it cannot be any form of the real P. 
stamineum ; for in all the northern shrubs the berries are 
hard, sour, and astringent even in their fullest maturity. 
4. P. oBLONGUM. Vaccinium oblongum, Greene, Pitt. iii. 
250 (1897). Western Tennessee. | 
5. P. cæsium. Vaccinium cæsium, Greene, l.c. 249. Known 
only from Florida. 
6. P. RevotutuM. Vaccinium revolutum, Greene, l. c. 250. 
Florida. 
BATODENDRON. 
Nuttall, in Transactions of the American Philosophical 
Society, 2 ser. viii. 261 (1843). A genus perhaps more imi- 
tative of Polycodium than closely allied to it; the inflores- 
cence similar, but corollas rather urceolate-campanulate 
than open-eampanulate, not open in the bud ; the stamens 
as in Polycodium, nearly, but berries very different, having 
a sweet, but dry granular pulp; their pedicels jointed near 
the summit and just below the calyx, this being a most im- 
portant character. 
1. B. ARBOREUM, Nutt. l. c. Vaccinium arboreum, Mar- 
shall, Arb. 157 (1785) Leaves dark-green, remotely and 
obscurely callous-denticulate: racemes with large bracts 
almost equalling the pedicels: corolla exactly campanulate. 
From North Carolina to southern Illinois and southward to 
the Gulf States. 
