WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 93 



55. Leaves ('neither opposite, wanting, nor from root only) simple, 



flowers in cluster, plant upright, shrub, not over 5 ft., 



flower urn- or bell-shaped. 



Black Huckleberry {Gaylussaciaresinosa) . Heath fam. 

 Flowers in short clusters or one-sided racemes; 

 leaves oval-egg-shaped. Spring, early summer. 



Bearberry {Arciostaphylos Uva-ursi). Heath family. 

 Flowers in short raceme-like clusters; corolla urn- 

 shaped; leaves evergreen, thick, broadening at end, 

 with short stalks; fruit red. Rocks and hills. 

 Spring, early summer. 



Marsh Axdromeda (Andromeda polifolia). Heath fam. 

 Shrub; av. ht. i ft.; flowers small, urn-shaped, in 

 pendulous clusters; corolla 5-toothed; leaves ever- 

 green, linear to lance-shaped, oblong, short-stalked, 

 edges rolling back, white on under side. Bogs. 

 Spring, early summer. 



Marsh andromeda (.Andromeda polifolia). 



Low Blueberry (Vaccinium vacillans). Heath family. 

 Max. ht. 4 ft.; branches covered with warts; 

 leaves inversely egg-shaped or oval, blunt-pointed 

 at both ends; flowers urn-shaped, rather long, on 

 short stalks, not many in a cluster. 



