410 VACCINIACEA VACCINIUM 
and setaceous-subulate lobes: corolla 6-8 lines long, its lanceolate acute 
lobes longer than the tube: capsule 3-4 lines long, strongly angled. Com- 
mon in coniferous woods, Vancouver Island to California. 
C. prenanthoides Durand Jour. Acad Philad. n. ser. ii, 93 Glabr- 
ous or roughish-puberulent: stem erect, 1-3 feet high: leaves numerous, 
6-18 lines long, from ovate-oblong to lanceolate, the cauline mainly sessile: 
flowers racemose, scattered or clustered, generally numerous, bright blue, 
on short pedicels: corolla slender-cylindrical in bud, twice the length of 
the slender calyx-lobes, almost 5-parted, its lobes narrowly lanceolate, 2-4 
times as long as the tube: capsule thin-walled and with broad and retuse 
base. Coniferous woods and open places, southern Oregon to California. 
OrveR LIV, VACCINIACEZ® Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 757. 
Shrubs or small trees, with alternate simple leaves, and small 
pink or white perfect flowers in clusters, or solitary. Calyx- 
tube adnate to the ovary, the limb 4-5-lobed or 4-5-cleft. do 
rolla gamopetalous, 4-5-lobed, or rarely divided into separate 
petals, deciduous. Stamens twice as many as the lobes of the 
corolla, epigynous, or inserted on the base of the corolla; fila- 
ments usually flattened, anthers dorsally attached, 2-celled, 
the connective entire or 2-awned. Ovary inferior, 2-10-celled, 
with: placentae in the axis, with one to several anatropous 
ovules in each cell, crowned by the epigynous disk. Style fil- 
iform: stigma simple, or minutely 4-5-lobed. Fruit a berry or 
drupe in our genera. Seeds compressed. Embryo small, in 
fleshy albumen. 
1 Vaccinium Corolla urceolate, subglobose, cylindric, or campanulate. 
2 Oxycoceus Corolla deeply 4-cleft or 4-divided, the lobes reflexed. 
1 VACCINIUM L. Sp. 349. 
Branching shrubs or small trees with alternate often coriace- 
ous leaves and small white pink or red flowers. Calyx-tube glo- 
bose, hemispheric or turbinate, not angled, adnate to the ovary, 
the limb 4—5-toothed or lobed, persistent. Corolla urn-shaped, 
campanulate, cylindric, or subglobose, its limb 4—5-toothed or 
lobed. Stamens as many or twice as many as lobes of the corolla 
Anthers awned or awnless, upwardly prolonged into tubes, open- 
ing by aterminal hole or slit of the tubular apex of each cell. 
Ovary 4—5-celled, or 8-10 celled by false partitions ; ovules several 
or numerous in each cell. | . 
§ 1 Evuvacctntum Gray. Leaves deciduous. Flowers on 
drooping pedicels, solitary or 2-4 together, developing with or 
soon after the leaves. Corolla from ovate to globular, and more 
or less urn-shaped, 4—5-toothed. Filaments glabrous: anthers 
2-awned on the back, included. Ovary and berry 4-5-celled, 
with no false partitions. 7 
* Leaves quite entire and usually almost sessile: flowers 1-4 in a 
fascicle from a distinct scaly bud, more commonly 4-merous and 8-and- 
rous: limb of the calyx deeply 4-5-parted. 
