312 ERICACE^. (heath FAMILY.) 



2. VACCINIUM, L. Blueberry. Bilberry. Cranberry. 



Corolla various in shape; the limb 4-5-cleft, revolute. Stamens 8 or 10; 

 anthers sometimes 2-awne(l on the back ; the cells separate and prolonged up- 

 ward into a tube, opening by a hole at the apex. Berry 4-5-celled, many-seeded, 

 or sometimes 8- 10-celled by a false partition stretching from the back of each 

 cell to the placenta. — Shrubs with solitary, clustered, or racemed flowers ; the 

 corolla white or reddish. (Ancient Latin name^of obscure derivation.) 



§ 1, BATODENDRON. Corolla open-campanulate, 5-lobed ; anthers with long 

 tubes, and 2-aicned on the back; berrtj {hardly edible) spuriously lO-celled ; 

 leaves deciduous but firm ; flowers solitary or in leafy-bracted racemes, 

 slender-ped icelled . 



1. V. arboreum, Marshall. (Farkle-berry.) Tall (6-25° high), 

 smoothish ; leaves obovate to oblong, entire or denticulate, mucronate, briglit 

 green, shining above, at the south evergreen; corolla ichite; anthers included ; 

 berries black, globose, small, many-seeded. — Sandy soil, S. 111. to Tex., Fla., 

 and N. C. 



2. V. stamineum, L. (Deerberry. Squaw Huckleberry.) Dif- 

 fusely branched (2-3° high), somewhat pubescent; leaves ovate or oval, pale, 

 glaucous or whitish underneath; corolla greenish-white or purplish; anthers 

 viuch exserfed ; berries greenish or yellowish, globular or pear-shaped, largo, 

 few-seeded. — Dry woods, ]\Iaine to Minn., south to Fla. and La. 



§ 2. CYAN0C6CCUS. (Blueberries.) Corolla cylindraceous to campan- 

 ulate, ^-toothed ; filaments hairy; anthers included, aicnless ; berry (siveet 

 and edible) blue or black with bloom, completely or incompletely lO-celled ; 

 fiowers in fascicles or short racemes, short-ped icelled, appearing from large 

 scaly buds ivith or before the leaves. 



* Corolla cylindraceous when developed. 



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

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

 at least above ; flower-clusters sometimes virgate on naked branches ; corolla 

 rose-color ; berry black. — In swamps, south of our range, but represented by 



Var. tenellum, Gray. Low form, mostly small-leaved, with smaller 

 nearly white flowers in shorter or closer clusters. — Va. to Ark., and southward, 

 « * Corolla shorter and broader. (Blueberries or Blue Huckleberries.) 



4. "V. Pennsylvanieum, Lam. (Dwarf Blueberry.) Dwarf (6- 

 15' high), smooth, with green warty stems and branches; leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong, distinctly serrulate icith bristle-pointed teeth, smooth and shining both sides 

 (or sometimes downy on the midrib underneath) ; corolla short, cylindrical- 

 bell-shaped; berries bluish-black and glaucous. — Dry hills, X. J. to 111., north 

 to Xewf . and Sask. The lowest and earliest ripened of the blueberries. — Var. 

 angustif6lium, Gray ; a dwarfer high-mountain or northern form, with nar- 

 rower lanceolate leaves. — White Mts. of N. H., Newf ., and far northward. 



5. V. Canadense, Kalm. Low (l -2° high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or 

 elliptical, entire, downy both sides, as Avell as the crowded branchlets ; corolla 

 shorter ; otherwise as the last. — Swamps or moist woods, N. New Eng. to 

 mountains of Penn., 111., Minn., and northward. 



