12 VACCINIACEZ VACCINIUM 
oxycoccus 
pact: leaves rigid. In the mountains of Brit. Columbia and Washington 
VY. ovalifolium Smith in Rees’s Cycl. No. 2. Glabrous and glaucescent, 
4-12 feet high, straggling: branchlets more or Jess angled : leaves thin, oval 
to oblong, mostly obtuse or rounded at both ends, merely mucronulate, 
entire, or with a few irregular serratures, 1-2 inches long, pale and glau- 
cescent: limb of the calyx minutely 10-toothed: corolla ovoid-urceolate- 
pedicels recurved in fruit :. berries depressed-globose, 3-5 lines in diameter: 
blue with a bloom, acid but very good. Moist woods, Oregon to Alaska, 
Quebee and Michigan. 
V. Alaskaensis. Stem erect, 2-12 feet high, with erect branches and 
spreading sharply angled branchlets: leaves thickish, 1-3 inches long when 
mature, mostly ovate or oblong, not rarely acute at both ends, mucronu- 
late, on very short petioles, dark green above, paler beneath: limb of the 
calyx obscurely 10-toothed : corolla globular, 2 lines long: pedicels noddin 
in flower, erect in fruit: berries black, globular 4-6 lines in diameter, aci 
but fine for table use. In‘the Cascade Mountains of Oregon to Alaska. 
Y. parvifolium Smith 1. c. 3. Stem 3-12 feet high, with straggling 
angled green branches and branchlets: leaves oblong or oval, obtuse or 
rounded at both ends, 3-8'lines long, entire, pale green, dull beneath, often 
sparse: lin:b of the calyx 5-lobed: corolla globular: pedicels nodding in 
fruit: berries bright red, acid, but fine for table use. Common in damp 
forests west of the Cascade Mountains, Oregon to Alaska. 
§ 2 Virts-Ip#a Koch. Leaves coriaceous and persistent. 
Flowers in short racemes or clusters from separate buds, bracte- 
ate and 2-bracteolate. Stamens with hairy filaments and awnless 
anthers. 
‘VY. Vitis-Idea L. Fil. Dan. t. 40. Almost glabrous: branches tufted, 
4-10 inches high from creeping stems: leaves crowded, obovate or oval, 
emarginate, shining above, pale and bristly dark-dotted beneath, 3-6 lines 
long, the margins revolute, entire or obscurely serrulate: flowers crowded 
in a short terminal secund and nodding bracteate raceme, 4-merous and 
8-androus: bracts reddish, nearly persistent: limb of the calyx deeply 4- 
lobed : corolla white or rose-color, open-campanulate, rather deeply 4-lobed : 
berries dark red, acid and bitterish, edible when cooked. In marshes, 
northern Washington to Alaska and across the continent. 
V. ovatum Pursh Fl i, 290. Stems erect or ascending, 2-8 feet high, 
with rather rigid branches; branchlets pubescent: leaves thick and firm, 
very numerous, trom ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, minutely and acute- 
ly serrate, glabrous or nearly so, bright green both sides, 6-12 lines long: 
flowers in short and close axillary clusters: bracts and bractlets deciduons, 
usually red: corolla campanulate 2 lines long, rose-color or nearly white, 
barely thrice the length of the acute red calyx-lobes: berries black, acid. 
In moist woods near the coast, Brit. Columbia to California. 
2 OXYCOCCUS Hill British Herbal, 324. (CRANBERRY.) 
Low trailing or erect shrubs with alternate leaves, and axillary 
or terminal nodding flowers on long filiform pedicels, Calyx- . 
tube adherent to the ovary, the limb 4—5-eleft, persistent. Corolla 
4-5-parted, with long narrow reflexed segments. Stamens 8-10, 
the distinct filaments puberulent at base. Anthers conniyent 
into a cone, awnless, upwardly prolonged into hollow tubes and 
opening by oblique pores at the top. Ovary 4—-5-celled, destitute 
of false partitions. Fruit a many-seeded juicy berry. 
