248 ERICACEAE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



* 1. OXYC6CCUS, Tourn. Ovary 4-cdled: con.Ua 4-panid, the long and nar 

 row divisions revolute : anthers 8, awnless, tapering upwards into very long kibes 

 pedicels slender. 



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

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

 corolla deeply 4-parted : berries red, acid. 



1. V. Oxyc6cctlS, L. (SMALL CRANBERRY.) Stems very slender 

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

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

 (Oxycoccus 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. macrocarpoii, Ait. (COMMON AMERICAN CRANBERRY.) 

 Stems elongated ( 1 - 3 long), the flowering branches ascending ; leaves oblong, 

 obtuse, glaucous 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-cle/l : berries turning purple, insipid. 



3. V. erythrocarpon, Michx. Smooth, divergently branched (1 

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

 hills, mountains of Virginia and southward. July. 



$ 2. VITIS-ID^A, 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. VHiS-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 W-celled by false parti- 

 tions : corolla spreading -campanulate, 5-k>bed : anthers 2-awned on th&back: fila- 

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

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

 racemes. 



5. V. stamincum, L. (DEIRBERRY. 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-awncd ; berries globular or oear-shaped, greenish. Dry woods, 

 Maine to Michigan, and southward. May, June. 



(V. ARBOREUM, Michx., the FARKLE-BEr.uY, a tall species of this section, 

 with coriaceous and shining oval lc;iv-^. anth.-rs included in the white corolla, 

 and black berries, is found ia S. Illinois by Dr. Vascy.) 



