446 ERICACEAE. Vaccinium. 



5. Vaccinium Canadense, Kalm. Black Bilberry. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oval, perfectly entire, clothed (as wrell as the branches) 

 with a soft whitish pubescence, acute ; racemes clustered, very short ; corolla ovate- 

 campanulate. — Kalm in herb. Banks ; Richards, appx. Frankl. journ. ed. 2. p. 2 ; Hook, 

 fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 32, and bat. mag. t. 3446 ; DC prodr. 7. p. 572. V. dissomorphum, 

 Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 151 ? not oi Michx. 



A shrub 1-2^ feet high, much branched ; the bark of the twigs of a greenish color, and 

 slightly warty. Leaves 1 - IJ inch long, thin, dull. Racemes numerous, few-flowered. 

 Corolla short, white tinged with red, about as large as in V. Pennsylvanicum. Berries bluish 

 black, sweet and palatable. 



Swamps in the western part of the State. Fl. May - June. Fr. July. This species is 

 probably not uncommon ; being often confounded with the preceding, the dwarf pubescent 

 forms of which it much resembles. 



§3. PiCROCOCCus, Nutt. Ovary 5-eelled ; the cells divided longitudinally into two, by the deep 

 introfiexion of the dorsal suture : corolla spreading-campanulate : anthers 2-awned on the 

 back : flowers solitary and axillary, on slender lateral branches, awl appearing as if in leafy 

 racemes: cells of the berry few-seeded : leaves deciduous, 



6. Vaccinium stamineum, Linn. Deer-berry. Squaw Huckleberry. 



Leaves oval or ovate, acute, entire, pale and glaucous underneath ; flowers on slender 

 lateral branches resembling leafy racemes ; the pedicels solitary and axillary, filiform, nodding; 

 corolla spreading-campanulate, with rather obtuse lobes ; anthers much exserled, with two 

 awns on the back, the lobes tubular and slender. — Linn. sp. 1. p. 350 ; Ait. Kew. (ed. 1 ) 

 2.J9. 10 ; Michx. fl. \.p. 227; Bot. repos. t. 263; Pursh, fl. \.p. 284; Ell. sk. l.p. 496; 

 Torr. fl. \. p. 414 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 153 ; Beck, bot. p. 223 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 255 ; 

 DC. prodr. 7. p. 567. Picrococcus stamineus, Nutt. in trans. Amer. phil. soc. (n. ser.) 8. 

 p. 262. 



• A shrub 2-3 feet high, diffusely branched ; the branches terete, of a greenish color, and, 

 when young, pubescent. Leaves about an inch and a half long, mostly obtuse at the base, 

 pubescent underneath and ciliate when young, finally almost smooth on both sides. Pedicels 

 about half an inch long, pubescent. Calyx with short acute segments. Corolla white, and 

 widely spreading. Stamens erect : anthers slender, with two spreading subulate horns on the 

 back ; the long tubular lobes perforated, and 2-toothed at the summit. Berry large, globose, 

 often somewhat pyriform from the base being a little produced, usually greenish but some- 

 times purplish, of a bitterish and somewhat astringent taste, but not unpleasant when fully 

 ripe : the cells divided almost completely into two cavities by a process or introfiexion of the 

 dorsal suture ; each half-cell 2 - 3-seeded. Seeds rather large, compressed. 



Woods, and on rocky hills ; common in the valley of the Hudson ; rare in the western 

 counties. Fl. Latter part of May - June. Fr. September. V. album, Pursh and authors 



