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* * Flowers not articulated with the pedicel ; anthers exserted. 



- Leaves and branchlets pubescent. 



2. V. stamineum L. (DEERBERRY, SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY.) Diffusely 

 branched, 3-9 dm. high, somewhat pubescent ; leaves ovate or oval, pale, 

 glaucous or whitish underneath ; calyx glabrous or essentially so ; corolla 

 greenish-white or purplish ; anthers much exserted ; berries greenish or yellowish, 

 globular or pear-shaped, large, few-seeded, tart. (Polycodium Greene ; P. 

 candicans Small.) Dry woods and plains, Mass, to Ont., and southw. 



3. V. melanocarpum Mohr. (SOUTHERN GOOSEBERRY.) Similar, the young 

 parts minutely white-pubescent ; calyx white-tomentose ; fruit dark purple, 

 lustrous, palatable. (Polycodium Small.) Upland woods, N. C. to Mo., and 

 southw. 



- -i- Leaves and branchlets glabrous. 



4. V. neglSctum (Small) Fernald. Glabrous essentially throughout ; leaves 

 thin, at most ciliolate, becoming slightly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly 

 obovate, short-acuminate, green to slightly glaucous beneath ; calyx glabrous ; 

 corolla white or pink ; fruit greenish or yellowish, hardly edible. (Polycodium 

 Small.) Dry woods, Va. to Kan., and southw. 



2. CYANOC6CCUS Gray. (BLUEBERRIES.) Corolla cylindraceous to cam- 

 panulate, 5-toothed; filaments hairy; anthers included, awnless ; berry 

 edible, mostly blue or black, completely or incompletely W-celled ; flowers in 

 fascicles or short racemes, short-pediceled, appearing from large scaly buds 

 with or before the leaves. 



* Leaves coriaceous, evergreen,' bracts firm, tardily deciduous. 



6. V. Myrsinites Lam. (EVERGREEN B.) Low (2-6 dm. high), with branches 

 puberulent when young ; leaves from obovate to oblong-lanceolate or spatulate, 

 1-3 cm. long, smooth and shining above, puberulent or glabrate and strongly 

 veiny beneath, entire or denticulate ; calyx with acute teeth ; corolla cylindra- 

 ceous, 6-8 mm. long; fruit globose, blue-black. Sandy barrens, Va. to Fla. 

 and La. 



* * Leaves deciduous ; bracts scaly, early deciduous. 



.1- Corolla cylindraceous when developed. 



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

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

 least above, in maturity 2.5-5 cm. long ; flower-clusters sometimes virgate on 

 naked branches ; corolla rose-color, 7-10 mm. long ; berry black. In swamps 

 and pine barrens, Staten I. and N. J. (according to Mackenzie) to Fla., etc. 



Var. tenlllum (Ait.) Gray. Lower ; the mostly small (1-3 cm. long) leaves 

 and smaller (6-8 mm. long) nearly white flowers in shorter or closer clusters. 

 Va. to 111., Mo., and southw. 



-t- -- Corolla globose-urceolate to ellipsoid. 

 M- Low shrubs, mostly less than I m. high. 



7. V. pennsylvanicum Lam. (Low SWEET B., EARLY SWEET B.) Dwarf 



(2-6 dm. high); the green warty stems and branches glabrous (or pubescent 

 northward) ; leaves lanceolate or oblong, distinctly serrulate with bristle-pointed 

 teeth (rarely entire), bright green, smooth and shining both sides (or some- 

 times hairy on the midrib beneath), in maturity 2-3.5 cm. long, 8-15 mm. 

 broad; corolla short (6-7 mm. long), cylindric-bell-shaped ; berries bluish- 

 black and glaucous, varying to black or red, either with or without a bloom, 

 and rarely dull white (forma LEUCOCARPUM Deane). Dry hills, barrens, etc., 

 Nfd., to Sask., s. to Va., 111., and Wise. The lowest and earliest ripened of 

 the blueberries. Var. ANGusTir6LiuM (Ait.) Gray. A dwarf er high-mountain 

 or northern form, with narrower lanceolate leaves, 7-2 mm. long, 3-7 mm. 

 broad. Ct. (Graves) mts. of N. Y. and N. E. to Nfd., and far north w. 



Var. nigrum Wood. (Low BLACK B.) Leaves firmer, bliie-green, glaucous 



