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oblongr, mucronate, green both sides, rather thick and shining when old; racemes 

 elongated ; Imcts lenf-Uke, oval, persixleiit, as luiirj us the ]>edir.els ; ovuri/ biistlij or 

 (jianduhtr ; corolla bcll-shaped ; fruit black (insipid). — Var. iiiktklla has the 

 joung branclilets, racemes, and often tiic loaves hairy. — Sandy low soil, Maine 

 to IVnn. and Virginia, near the coast, and southward. June. 



3. G. frondbsa, Torr. &Gr. (Bluk TAXuLii. DANGi.unEnnY.) Smooth 

 (3°-C° high); branches slender and divergent; leaves obovate-oblong, bhiiit, 

 pnle, yluiicoits beneath : racemes slender, loose ; brads obloixj or linear, deciduous, 

 shorter than the slender drooping pedicels ; corolla globular-bell-shapcd ; fruit dark 

 blue with a white bloom (sweet and edible). — Low copses, coast of New Eng- 

 land to Kentucky, and southward. May, June. 



4. G. resinbsa, Torr. & Gr. (Black Huckleberry.) Much branched, 

 rigid, sHijIill)/ pubescent wlien young (10-3° high); leares oval, oblong-ovate, or 

 oblong, tiiickly clothed and at first clammy, as well as thejiowers, with shining res- 

 inous glolndcs ; racemes short, clustered, one-sided ; pedicels about the length of 

 the flowers ; bracts and bractlets (reddish) small and deciduous ; corolla ovoid-coni- 

 cal, or at length cylindrical with an open mouth; fruit black, without bloom 

 (pleasant, very rarely white). — Woodlands and swamps: common (except 

 southwestward towards the Mississippi). May, June. — The common //uciWe- 

 beirif of the North. 



2. VACCINIUM, L. Cranberry. Blueberry. Bilberry, 



Corolla various in shape; the limb 4-5-cleft, revolute. Stamens 8 or 10: 

 anthers sometimes 2-awned on the back ; the cells separate and prolonged up- 

 wards into a tube, opening by a hole at the apex. Berry 4 - 5-celled, many-seeded, 

 or sometimes 8-10-ceIlcd by a false partition stretching from the hack of each 

 Cell to the placenta. —Shrubs with solitary, clustered, or racemed flowers: the 

 corolla white or reddish. (Ancient Latin name, of obscure derivation.) 

 § 1. OXYCOCCUS, Tourn. Orari/ 4-celled: corolla 4-parted, the long nairoto 



dinsions revolute: anthers 8, awnless, tapering al>ove into very long tubes: pedi' 



eels slender. 

 * Steins very slendei; creeping or (railing : leaves small, entire, wliltened beneath, ever' 



green : pedicels ei-ect, with the pale rose-colored flower nodding on their summit : 



corolla dcrplij A-partcd : l>eiries red, acid. 



1. V. Oxyc6ecus, L. (Small Cranberry.) Stems very slender (4' - 

 9' long) ; hares ovate, acute, with strongly revolute margins (2" -3'' long) ; pedicels. 

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

 vulgaris, Pf^-.s/i.) — Peat-bogs, New England and Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, 

 and northward. June.- Rerry 3"- 4" broad, often speckled with white when 

 young; seldom gnthorpd for the market. (Eu.) 



2. V. macroc^rpon, Ait. (Large or American Cranberry.) Stems 

 elongated (l°-3" i.-ng), the flowering l)ranclics ascending ; leans olUig, ol,tuse, 

 glaucous underneath, less revolute (4" -6" long); pedicels several, In-coming 

 lateral ; filaments .scarcely one third the length of the anthers. (Oxycoccus 

 macrocarpus, Prr.s. ) — Pent-bogs, Virginia to Wi.sconsin, and everywhere north- 



•ward, but scarcely westward. June. — Berry i'- 1' long. 

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