ERICACE. 115 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
VACCINIUM. 
FLowers perfect; calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb 4 or 5-lobed; corolla 
gamopetalous, epigynous, 4 or 5-toothed, the teeth imbricated in estivation; stamens 
8 or 10; ovary inferior, 4 or 5 or imperfectly 8 to 10-celled; ovules numerous, attached 
to a central placenta. Fruit a many-seeded berry. Leaves alternate, membranaceous 
or coriaceous, destitute of stipules. 
Vaccinium, Linneus, Gen. 110 (1737). — Adanson, Fam. 
Pl. ii. 164. — A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 162. — Endlicher, 
Gen. 757. — Meisner, Gen. 243.— Bentham & Hooker, 
Gen. ii. 573.— Baillon, Hist. Pl. xi. 182. 
Oxycoccus, Adanson, Fam. Pl. ii. 164 (1763). — Endlicher, 
Gen. 757. — Bentham & Hooker, Gen. ii. 575. — Baillon, 
Hist. Pl. xi. 183. 
Schollera, Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. i. 170 (1788). 
Vitis-Ideea, Moench, Meth. 47 (1794). 
Cavinium, Petit-Thouars, Roemer Coll. Bot. 204 (1809). 
(?) Adnaria, Rafinesque, Fl. Ludovic. 56 (1817). 
Batodendron, Nuttall, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 
261 (1843). 
Picrococcus, Nuttall, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 
262 (1843). 
Metagonia, Nuttall, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 263 
(1843). 
Epigynium, Klotzsch, Linnea, xxiv. 49 (1851). 
Shrubs, sometimes epiphytal, or rarely small trees, with scaly buds and fibrous roots. Leaves simple, 
alternate, entire or dentate, membranaceous or coriaceous, deciduous or often persistent. Flowers small, 
bibracteolate, in many-bracted axillary racemes or in terminal or axillary fascicles, or solitary. Bracts 
small or rarely foliaceous. Calyx-tube terete, globose, hemispherical or turbinate, the limb short, four 
or five-lobed, the lobes equal or rarely unequal, persistent. Corolla white, rose-colored, or red, urceolate, 
campanulate, or occasionally tubular or conical, terete, or rarely costate or angled, the limb four or 
five-lobed or toothed, the teeth short, or rarely elongated and revolute. Stamens ten or sometimes 
eight, epigynous or inserted on the very base of the corolla; filaments filiform, free, short or elongated, 
usually hirsute; anthers attached and awned or muticous on the back, introrse, two-celled, the cells 
produced upwards into erect, rarely curved, tubes dehiscent by terminal transverse or oblique, rotund, or 
elongated pores, or rarely by elongated clefts; pollen-grains compound, of four united grains. Disk 
pulvinate or convex, rarely flat, glabrous or pilose, occasionally lobed or angled. Ovary four or five- 
celled, the cells sometimes imperfectly divided by the development from the back of a false partition ;+ 
style filiform, erect; stigma minute, simple or capitate; ovules few or many in each cell, attached to 
the interior angle by a two-lipped placenta, anatropous; raphe ventral; the micropyle superior. Fruit 
a dry or juicy globose berry crowned with the calyx-limb, four or five, or imperfectly eight or ten-celled, 
the cells few or many-seeded. Seed small or minute, compressed, ovoid or reniform; testa crustaceous. 
Embryo clavate, minute, surrounded by fleshy albumen, axile, erect; cotyledons ovate, radicle terete, 
turned towards the hilum.’ 
1 Gray, Mfem. Am. Acad. n. ser. iii. 52 (Chlor. Bor.-Am.). 
2 The genus has been divided into the following sections : — 
BATODENDRON. Flowers in leafy bracted racemes ; corolla open- 
campanulate, 5-lobed ; anthers awned on the back, tipped with 
slender tubes; ovary incompletely 10-celled. Leaves deciduous. 
Eastern North America. 
Cyanococcus. Flowers in fascicles or short racemes, appearing 
with the leaves ; corolla cylindrical to ovoid or oblong-campanu- 
late, 5-lobed ; anthers awned ; ovary completely or incompletely 
10-celled. Eastern North America. 
Evvaccintum. Flowers solitary or 2 to 4 together on drooping 
pedicels, appearing with the leaves ; corolla urceolate or subcylin- 
drical, 4 to 5-lobed; anthers awned on the back; ovary 4 or 
