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in clusters, with corolla cylindrical, wliito or pink-tinged, 5-toothed: 

 anthers 10, included: berry many seeded, blue-black with a bloom, edible. 



V. corymbdsum, Linn. High-bush, or swamp, huckleberry. Blueberry. 

 Tiill busli, witli obloni^ or elliptical leaves: berries blue, sweei, usually with 

 a thick l)Iooiii. 



V. macrocdrpon, Ait. Cranberry. Creeping, slender, scarcely woody: 

 leaves small, about }/i in. lonj;;, evergreen, oval or oblong and margins 

 rolled: flowers solitary, on slender erect pedicels, pale pinkish, deeper 

 colored within, with 4 narrow reflexed segments. 



3. GAULTHfiRIA. Wintergreen. Checkerberry. 



Stem procumbent, with leafy branches erect: leaves alternate, evergreen 

 and tasting spicj' and aromatic; flowers wliite or pink, nodding on axillary 

 pedicels: corolla oblong or short-cylindrical with 5 short lobes; anthers 10, 

 awned at top: fruit berry-like, with capsule inside the thickened calyx. 



G. procumbens, Linn. Leaves oval or obovate, much sought for their 

 spicy Havor, as well as the edible red, mealj' berries, which last all winter. 

 In low and evergreen woods, 6 in. or less tall. 



4. EPIG.ffiA. Trailing Arbutus. Mayflower. 



Trailing close to the ground, with rusty-hairy stems, and alternate 

 evergreen rounded leathery leaves: flowers dimorphous, in clusters at 

 ends of branches, bracted, sessile: sepals 5, persistent but scale-like: corolla 

 salver-forra, with 5 lobes: stamens 10: ovary 5-lobed. 



£. ripens, Linn. A favorite flower of very early spring, white to pink, 

 /4-in. broad, spicy-scented and wax-like, in small clusters from axils of the 

 rusty leaves. Mostly North. 



5. KALMIA. American Laurel. 



Shrubs, native (belonging to East and South), with entire evergreen 

 leaves: flowers in umbels: corolla open, saucer-like, 5-angIed with 10 little 

 pits in which the anthers of the 10 stamens are caught until mature, or 

 disturbed by insects, when the curved filaments spring upward, discharging 

 the pollen: style long and slender. 



K. latifolia, Linn. Common mountain laurel. Stout shrub, 4-20 ft.: 

 often forming great patches on wild or rocky hillsides; also cultivated: 

 flowers about 1 in. across, rosy, or white and red-spotted, in terminal c( m- 

 pound corymbs: leaves mostly alternate, thick, acute, green on both sides, 

 lance-ovate: lilooms in early summer. East and North. 



K. angustifblia, Linn. Sheep laurel. LambkiU. Low shrub with 

 flowers about >2-in. across, crimson or purplish, in lateral corymbs: leaves 

 narrow, obtuse, short petioled, opposite or in threes, pale beneath. Hillsides. 



6. AZALEA. 



Shrubs, with deciduous leaves: flowers showy, in terminal, umbel-like 

 clusters: calyx minute, 5-parted : corolla cylindrical-tubed: stamens usu- 

 ally 5: style long, slender, exserted. Rhododendron is closely allied, 



