248 ERICACEAE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



1. OXYC6CCUS, Tourn. Ovary 4-fdkd : corolla 4-parted, tie long and nar- 

 row divisions revolute: unifiers 8, awnless, tapering upwards into very iong t-.ibes 

 pedicels slender. 



* Stems very slender, creeping or trailing ; leaves small, entire, whitened beneath, ever- 

 green: pedicels erect, with the pale rose-colored flower noddiny on their summit : 

 corolla deeply ^-parted : berries red, acid. 



1. V. Oxyctfccus, L. (SMALL CRANBERRY.) Stems very slender 

 (4' -9' long); leaves ovate, acute, with strongly revolute margins (2 1 -3" Ion.;); 

 pedicels 1-4, terminal; filaments more than half the length of the anthers. 

 (Oxycoceus vulgaris, Pursh.) Peat-bogs, New England and Penn. to Wis- 

 consin, and northward. June. Berry 3" -4" broad, spotted when young, sel- 

 dom sufficiently abundant to be gathered for the market. (Eu.) 



2. V. ill acrocfir poll, Ait. (COMMON AMERICAN CRANBERRY.) 

 Stems elongated (l-3 long), the flowering branches ascending; leaves oblong t 

 ofaiM^gUacom underneath, less revolute (4" -6" long); pedicels several, be- 

 coming lateral ; filaments scarcely one third the length of the anthers. (0. ma- 

 crocarpus, Pers.) Peat-bogs, Virginia to Wisconsin, and everywhere north- 

 ward. June. Berry ' - 1 ' long. 



* # Stem upright and leaves deciduous, as in common Blueberries : flowers axillary 



and solitary : corolla deeply 4-cleft : berries turning purjile, insipid. 



3. V. crytlirocarpon, Michx. Smooth, divergently branched (1- 

 4 high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, taper-pointed, bristly serrate, thin. Wooded 

 hills, mountains of Virginia and southward. July. 



$ 2. VITIS-ID^EA, Tourn. Ovary 4 - 5-celled : corolla bell-shaped, 4-5-lobed: 

 anthers 8-10, awnless : filaments hairy : flowers in short and bracted nodding ra- 

 cemes : leaves evergreen : berries red or purple. 



4. V. Vitis-Id&a, L. (COWBERRY.) Low (6'-10' high); branches 

 erect from tufted creeping stems ; leaves obovate, with revolute margins, dark 

 green, smooth and shining above, dotted with blackish bristly points under- 

 neath ; corolla bell-shaped, 4-cleft. Higher mountains of New England, also 

 on the coast of Maine, and at Danvers, Massachusetts (Oakcs), and northward. 

 June. Berries dark red, acid and rather bitter, mealy, barely edible. (Eu.) 



3. BATOD^NDRON. Ovary more or less completely 10-celled by false parti- 

 tions : corolla sprrtu/iiitj-aiinpanulate, 5-lobed : anthers 2-awned on the back: fila- 

 ments hairy : berries mawkish and scarcely edible, ripening few seeds : flowers soli- 

 tary on slender pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves, forming a sort of leafy 

 racemes. 



5. V. stamineum, L. (DEERBERRY. SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY.) 



Diffusely branched (2 -3 high), somewhat pubescent; leaves ovate or oval, 

 pale, whitish underneath, deciduous; tubes of the anthers much longer than the 

 corolla, short-awned ; berries globular or pear-shaped, greenish. Dry woods, 

 Maine to Michigan, and southward. May, June. 



(V. AUB<'' i\., the FAUKLK-BEHUY, a tall species of this section, 



ill .-liininir oval leaves, nnthTs included in the white corolla, 

 and black berries, is fouud in S. Illinois by Dr. Vasei/.) ' 



