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the flower is opened, and conspicuous as the petals are recurved; anthers 

 opening by a pore at the apex. Fruit a globose or oblong, juicy, red berry, 

 many-seeded and acidulous, one-third to three-fourths of an inch long. 



In bogs or boggy meadows, Newfoundland to Ontario, south to Virginia 

 and Arkansas. Flowering in June and July. Fruit ripe in September 

 and October. Extensively cultivated in New England and New Jersey 

 for its fruit. 



The Small Cranberry (Oxycoccus oxycoccus (Linnaeus) 

 MacMillan) has smaller, thicker, ovate leaves and pink flowers about 

 one-third of an inch broad; the fruit is about one-third of an inch in 

 diameter or less and often spotted when young. It is found in cold bogs, 

 especially northward. 



The Creeping Snowberry (Chiogenes hispidula (Linnaeus) 

 Torrey & Gray) resembles somewhat the Small Cranberry and grows 

 in similar situations. It is somewhat hairy, and the small oval or ovate 

 leaves one-sixth to one-third of an inch long are smooth above but 

 sprinkled beneath with numerous, appressed, stiff, brownish hairs; flowers 

 few, nodding, about one-sixth of an inch long, white; fruit a small, snow- 

 white berry. 



Primrose Family 



Primulaceae 

 Mistassini or Dwarf Canadian Primrose 



Primula mistassinica Michaux 



Plate I5pb 



A small, perennial, scapose herb, i to 6 inches high. Leaves all basal, 

 spatulate to rhombic-ovate or obovate in shape, green on both sides, some- 

 what toothed, blunt at the apex, tapering at the base, sessile or with short 

 petioles, one-half to i^ inches long, one-eighth to one-half of an inch wide. 

 Flowers two to eight, forming a loose cluster at the summit of the scape. 

 Corolla pink or pale purple, with or without a yellow eye, funnelform, the 

 tube longer than the five-lobed calyx, the lobes of the corolla obcordate, 

 one-eighth to one-fifth of an inch long; stamens five, fastened to the inside 

 of the corolla tube. Fruit a small, erect, narrowly oblong capsule, one- 

 fifth to one-third of an inch long. 



