266 HEATH FAMILY. 



» • » « Cranberry ; creeping or trailing, very slender, hardly woody 

 plants, icith small evergreen leaves whitish beneath, single flnirers in 

 summer, borne on slender erect pedicels, pale rose corolla, deeply parted 

 into 4 narroio reflexed divisions, 8 anthers with very long tribes, but no 

 awns on the back, and acid red berry i-celled, ripe in autumn. (Lessons, 

 Fig. 274.) 



V. Oxyc6ccus, Linn. Small C. Cold peat bogs N. and E. ; a 

 delicate little plant, flowering at the end of the stems, the ovate acute 

 leaves (only ^' long) with strongly revolute margins ; berry only half as 

 large as in the next, often speckled with white, seldom gathered for market. 



V. macrocdrpon, Ait. Large or American C. Stems 1° to 3° 

 long, growing on so that the flowers become lateral, oblong obtuse leaves 

 .sometimes ^' long, and with less revolute margins, and berries §' or more 

 long ; largely cultivated for the market. Bogs from N. C, N, (Lessons, 

 Fig. 371.) 



3. CHIOGENES. (Greek-made name, alluding to the snow-white 



berries.) 11 



C. serpyllifdlia, Salisb. Creeping Snowberry. Peat bogs and mossy 

 woods N., and S to N. C. in Mts. ; nearly herbaceous, slender, creeping 

 stems, very small, ovate, pointed evergreen leaves, their lower surface 

 and the branchlets beset with rusty bristles, minute axillary flowers in 

 late spring, and white berries ripe in summer ; these and the foliage have 

 the flavor of Wintergreen. 



4. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, BEARBERRY (the name in Greek). 2/ 



A. Uva-Ursi. Spreng. Trailing over rocks and bare hills N., forming 

 mats, with thick, smooth, and entire obovate and spatulate evergreen 

 leaves, and small scaly-bracted nearly white flowers in a short raceme, 

 in early spring, followed by the red austere berries. Leaves used in 

 medicine, astringent and somewhat mucilaginous. 



5. GAULTHERIA, WINTERGREEN. (Named for Dr. Gaulthier 

 of Quebec.) (Lessons, Figs. 366, 367.) 2/ 



G. procdmbens, Linn. Creeping W., Boxberry, Checkerberry, 



etc.; commiin in evergreen and low woods, spreading by long and slender 

 mostly subterranean runners, sending up stems 3'-5' high, bearing at 

 summit a few obovate or oval leaves and in summer one or two nodding 

 white flowers in the axils, the edible red " berries" lasting over winter; 

 these and the foliage familiar for their spicy flavor, yielding the oil of 

 wintergreen. 



6. EPIG.S3A. (Greek: on the ground, trom the growth.} 11 



E. ripens, Linn. Trailing Arbutus (jiTonounced. Ar'butus), Ground 

 Laurel, or, in N. Eng., Mayflower. Sandy or rocky woods, chiefly 

 E., under pines, etc. ; prostrate, with rusty-bristly shoots, somewhat 

 heart-shaped leaves, slender-petioled, and small clusters of rose-colored 

 or almost white spicy-fragrant flowers (which are dimorphous) in early 

 spring. 



7. ANDROMEDA. (Mythological name.) Flowers white, rarely 

 tinged with rose, mostly in spring. 



« Flowers in umbel like clusters,' leaves evergreen; anthers 2-awned. 



A. polif6lia, Linn. Cold wet bogs N. ; 6'-18' high, smooth and glau- 

 cous ; lanceolate entire revolute leaves white beneath : flowers in a simple 

 terminal umbel, the corolla almost globular. 



