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* * Flowers not articulated with the pedicel ; anthers exserted. 

 *- Leaves and branchlets pubescent. 



2. V. stamfneum L. (DEERBERRY, SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY.) Diffusely 

 branched, 3-9 dm. high, somewhat pubescent ; leaves ovate or oval, pale, 

 glaucous or whitish underneath ; calyx glabrous or essentially so ; corolla 

 greenish-white or purplish ; anthers much exserted ; berries greenish or yellowish, 

 globular or pear-shaped, large, few-seeded, tart. (Polycodinm Greene ; P. 

 candicans Small.) Dry woods and plains, Mass, to Ont., and southw. 



3. V. melanocdrpum Mohr. (SOUTHERN GOOSEBERRY.) Similar, the young 

 parts minutely white-pubescent; calyx white-tomentose ; fruit dark purple, 

 lustrous, palatable. (Polycodium Small.) Upland woods, N. C. to Mo., and 

 southw. 



- - Leaves and branchlets glabrous. 



4. V. neglSctum (Small) Fernald. Glabrous essentially throughout ; leaves 

 thin, at most ciliolate, becoming slightly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly 

 obovate, short-acuminate, green to slightly glaucous beneath ; calyx glabrous ; 

 corolla white or pink ; fruit greenish or yellowish, hardly edible. (Polycodium 

 Small.) Dry woods, Va. to Kan., and southw. 



2. CYANOC6CCUS Gray. (BLUEBERRIES.) Corolla cylindraceous to cam- 

 panulate, 5-toothed; filaments hairy,' anthers included, awnless; berry 

 edible, mostly blue or black, completely or incompletely 10-celled; flowers in 

 fascicles or short racemes, short-pediceled, appearing from large scaly buds 

 with or before the leaves. 



* Leaves coriaceous, evergreen ; bracts firm, tardily deciduous. 



6. V. Myrsinites Lam. (EVERGREEN B.) Low (2-6 dm. high), with branches 

 puberulent when young ; leaves from obovate to oblong-lanceolate or spatulate, 

 1-3 cm. long, smooth and shining above, puberulent or glabrate and strongly 

 veiny beneath, entire or denticulate ; calyx with acute teeM; corolla cylindra- 

 ceous, 6-8 mm. long ; fruit globose, blue-black. Sandy uarrens, Va. to Fla. 

 and La. 



* * Leaves deciduous ,- bracts scaly, early deciduous. 



- Corolla cylindraceous when developed. 



6. V. virgatum Ait. Low, more or less pubescent ; leaves ovate-oblong to 

 cuneate-lanceolate, usually acute and minutely serrulate, thinnish, shining at 

 least above, in maturity 2.5-6 cm. long ; flower-clusters sometimes virgate on 

 naked branches ; corolla rose-color, 7-10 mm. long ; berry black. In swamps 

 and pine barrens, Staten I. and N. J. (according to Mackenzie) to Fla. , etc. 



Var. tenellum (Ait.) Gray. Lower; the mostly small (1-3 cm. long) leaves 

 and smaller (6-8 mm. long) nearly white flowers in shorter or closer clusters. 

 Va. to 111., Mo., and southw. 



*- *- Corolla globose-urceolate to ellipsoid. 

 ++ Low shrubs, mostly less than 1 m. high. 



7. V. penosylvanicum Lam. (Low SWEET B., EARLY SWEET B.) Dwarf 

 (2-6 dm. high); the green warty stems and branches glabrous (or pubescent 

 northward) ; leaves lanceolate or oblong^ distinctly serrulate with bristle-pointed 

 teeth (rarely entire), bright green, smooth and shining both sides (or some- 

 times hairy on the midrib beneath), in maturity 2-3.5 cm. long, 8-15 mm. 

 broad; corolla short (6-7 mm. long), cylindric-bell-shaped ; berries bluish- 

 black and glaucous, varying to black or red, either with or without a bloom, 

 and rarely dull white (forma LEUCOCARPUM Deane). Dry hills, barrens, etc., 

 Nfd., to Sask., s. to Va., 111., and Wise. The lowest and earliest ripened of 

 the blueberries. Var. ANGUSTIF^LIUM (Ait.) Gray. A dwarfer high-mountain 

 or northern form, with narrower lanceolate leaves, 7-20 mm. long, 3-7 mm. 

 broad. Ct. (Oraves) ; mts. of N. Y. and N. E. to Nfd., and far northw. 



Var. nigrum Wood. (Low BLACK B.) Leaves firmer, blue-green, glaucous 



