VACCINIACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



short-campanulate, 4-cleft, its lobes rounded. Stamens 8, included; filaments short, nearly 

 orbicular, roughish; anthers not awned nor prolonged into tubes, each sac 2-cuspidate at 

 the apex and opening by a slit down to the middle. Ovary 4-celled, surrounded by the 

 8-lobed disk; style short. Berry globose to oval, snow-white, many-seeded, rather mealy. 

 [Greek, snow-born, in allusion to the berries.] 



A monotypic genus of North America and Japan. 



i. Chiogenes hispidula (L.) T. & G. Creeping 

 Snowberry. Ivory-plums. Fig. 3274. 



V actinium hispidulum L. Sp. PI. 352. 1753. 

 C. serpyllifolia Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 2 : 94. 1814. 

 Chiogenes hispidula T. & G. ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i : 450. 1843. 

 Chiogenes japonica A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part i, 26. 1878. 



Branches strigose-pubescent, very slender, 3'-i2' long. 

 Leaves coriaceous, persistent, oval, ovate, or slightly 

 obovate, short-petioled, acute at the apex, rounded or 

 narrowed at the base, dark green, glabrous above, entire, 

 sprinkled with appressed stiff brownish hairs beneath and 

 on the revolute margins, 2"-$" long; flowers few, soli- 

 tary, axillary, nodding, about 2" long, berry aromatic, 

 usually minutely bristly, crowned by the 4 calyx-teeth, 

 becoming almost wholly inferior, about 3" in diameter. 



In cold wet woods and bogs, Newfoundland to British Co- 

 lumbia, south to North Carolina and Michigan. Ascends to 

 5200 ft. in New Hampshire. May-June. Fruit ripe Aug.- 

 Sept. Flavor of sweet birch. Mountain partridge-berry. 

 Running birch. Moxie-berry. Maidenhair-berry. 



7. OXYCOCCUS [Tourn.] Hill, British Herbal, 324. 1756. 



Glabrous, or slightly pubescent, trailing or erect shrubs, with alternate nearly sessile 

 leaves, and axillary or terminal, solitary or several, pendulous or cernuous, slender-peduncled 

 red or pink flowers. Calyx-tube nearly hemispheric, adnate to the ovary, the limb 4-5-cleft, 

 persistent. Corolla long-conic in the bud, 4~5-parted or 4~5-divided into separate or nearly 

 separate petals, these narrow and revolute. Stamens 8 or 10, the filaments distinct ; anthers 

 connivent into a cone, long-exserted when the flower is expanded, upwardly prolonged into 

 hollow tubes dehiscent by a pore at the apex, not awned. Ovary 4-5-ceIled ; style slender or 

 filiform. Fruit an oblong or globose many-seeded juicy red acid berry. [Greek, sour berry.] 



About 6 species, natives of the northern hemisphere. Type species : Oxycoccus vulgaris Hill. 

 Trailing bog shrubs ; leaves evergreen, entire ; flowers 1-6 from terminal buds. 



Leaves ovate, acute; berry globose. i. O. Oxycoccos. 



Leaves oval or oblong, obtuse; berry ovoid or oblong. 2. O. macrocarpus.. 



Erect mountain shrub ; leaves deciduous, serrulate ; flowers solitary, axillary. 3. O. erythrocarpus. 



i. Oxycoccus Oxycoccos (L.) MacM. 

 Small or European Cranberry. Fig. 3275. 



Vaccinium Oxycoccos L. Sp. PI. 351. 1753. 



V. Oxycoccus intermedium A. Gray. Syn. Fl. ed 2 



a 1 : 396. 1886. 



Oxycoccus palustris Pers. Syn. i : 419. 1805. 

 O. Oxycoccus MacM. Bull. Torr. Club 19: 15. 1892. 

 Sterns^ very slender, creeping, rooting at the 

 nodes, 6'-i8' long. Branches ascending or erect, 

 1-6 high; leaves thick, evergreen, ovate, entire, 

 acutish at the apex, rounded or cordate at the 

 base, dark green above, white beneath, 2"-8" long, 

 i"-3i" wide, the margins more or less revolute; 

 flowers r-6, mostly umbellate, rarely racemose, 

 from terminal scaly buds, nodding, on erect fili- 

 form pedicels, 2-bracteolate at or below the 

 middle; corolla pink, about 4" broad, divided 

 nearly to the base; filaments puberulent, about 

 half^the length of the anthers; berry globose, 

 3 -5 in diameter, often spotted when young. 



^ In cold bogs, Newfoundland to Alaska, New Jersey, 

 Xorth Carolina, Michigan and British Columbia! 

 Also in Europe and Asia. May-July. Fruit ripe 

 Aug.-Sept. Bog- or marsh-wort. Moss-, bog-, fen- 

 Or ., moor -|? err 7- Marsh-berry. Crone, cran-, cram- or crane-berry. Crow or craw-berry. Moss- 



ullions [melons]. Sow- or sour-berry. Swamp red-berry. 



