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margins ; pedicels 1-4, terminal ; corolla deeply 4-parted, the lobes 

 reflexed ; anthers exserted, with very long terminal tubes ; berry 

 red, globose, Y^-Yz inch in diameter, 4-celled. (Figured: 

 Sowerby, Eng. Bot. ed. i, 5:319; Schlecht, Fl. von Deutch. 

 20:2039; Reich., Icon. Fl. Germ. 17, t. 1169.) Sphagnous 

 swamps, Europe, north and middle Asia, North America, Green- 

 land to Japan mostly in sub-arctic and alpine regions, Newfound- 

 land to Alaska and southward to mountains of Pennsylvania, 

 common on rocky islands along the coast of Maine. The cran- 

 berry of the old world. It is distinguished from the next species, 

 the American Cranberry, by its very small pointed leaves, rarely 

 Yn inch long, and by the short ovate segments of the corolla as 

 well as by the terminal inflorescence. Though smaller, its fruit 

 is by many considered superior to that of the next. 



V* macrocarpon, Ait. (Larger American Cranberry) 

 Aiton, Hort. Kew, 2: 13, 1789. 



(Synonyms: V. oxy coccus var. oblongifolius, Michx. Fl. Bor. 

 Am. i : 228; Oxycoccus macrocarpus, Pursh. Fl. 1 : 263.) 



Stems slender, creeping, elongated (1-4 feet), the flowering 

 branches ascending; leaves oblong or oval, obtuse or retuse, 

 Yz-Yz mcn l n g; whitened beneath; pedicels several, axillary and 

 lateral ; berry red or reddish, globose or pyriform, J^-i inch long. 

 (Figured: Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. i, 2: 13, t.7; Bot. Mag. t.2586; 

 Emerson, Trees and Shrubs of Mass., ed. 5, 2:456; Meehan, 

 Flowers and Ferns 2 : 28 ; Wein, III. Gart. Zeit. i : 81 ; as Oxy- 

 coccus macrocarpus Bart. Fl. i, t.17.) Peat bogs, Newfound- 

 land to North Carolina and westward. 



This is the common large fruited cranberry, under cultivation 

 in Massachusetts, New Jersey and elsewhere. 



V. Vitis-Idaea, L. (Cowberry, Mountain Cranberry, Foxberry) 

 Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 351, 1753. 



(Synonyms: V . Punctatum, Lam. Fl. Fr. 3 : 396 ; V. puncti- 

 folium, Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. 2 : 363 ; V. buxifolium, Gillb. Fl. 

 Lituan. 1:4; V. nemorosuni, Salisb. Prod. 291.) 



Plants low (6-10 inches) ; branches erect from tufted creeping 

 stems ; leaves coriaceous, persistent, obovate or oval, Y^A mcn 



