424 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



ee. Corolla bell-shaped, no pockets: flowers from 



terminal, scaly buds 6. Azalea 



aa. Parasitic herbs, destitute of green foliage, about the 



roots of trees 7. Monotropa 



1. GAYLUSSACIA. Low-bush Huckleberry. 



Shrubs, low and branching, leaves and branches sometimes with resinous 

 dots: leaves alternate, entire or serrate: flowers in lateral racemes, small, 

 white or pink, nodding on bracted pedicels, in late spring; corolla bell-like 

 or ovoid, with 5 lobes erect or reflexing; stamens 10, usually included; 

 ovary 10-celled: fruit berry-like, containing 10 little stones, blue or black, 

 sweet and edible, ripe in late summer. 



G. baccata, C. Koch. High-land huckleberry. Shrub, 1-3 ft., with 

 stiff branches and deciduous entire oval leaves, sprinkled with resinous 

 dots: flowers, in 1 -sided racemes; corolla white, tinged with pink, cylindrical 

 or somewhat 5-angled, and contracted at margin: berry black, not glaucous. 



G. frondosa, Torr. & Gray. Tangle-berry. Shrub, 1-3 ft., with stiff spread- 

 ing branches: leaves oblong to obovate, thin, smooth and pale below, 

 resinous-dotted; corolla white, tinged with pink, short: berry large, dark 

 blue, with a bloom. 



2. VACCINIUM. Blueberry. Cranberry. Bilberry. High-bush 



Huckleberry. 



Shrubs much resembling Gaylussacia, but the ovary only 4-5-celled, 

 although appearing to have twice as many cells by false partitions: fruit a 

 many-seeded berry, generally edible. Fruit ripe in summer and autumn. 



V. pennsylvanicum, Lam. Dwarf early blueberry. Shrub, 6-20 in., 

 with smooth green warty branches: leaves deciduous, lance-oblong, smooth 

 and glossy, but edges serrated and tipped with little bristly spines: flowers 

 in clusters, with corolla cylindrical, white or pink-tinged, 5-toothed; anthers 

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



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

 Tall bush, with oblong or elliptical leaves: berries blue, sweet, usually 

 with a thick bloom. 



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

 leaves small, about J^ in. long, evergreen, oval or oblong and margins 

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

 colored within, with 4 narrow reflexed segments. 



3. GAULTHERIA. Wintergreen. Checkerberry. 



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

 and tasting spicy and aromatic: flowers white 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. prociimbens, Linn. Fig. 22. Leaves oval or obovate, much sought for 

 their spicy flavor, as well as the edible red, mealy berries, which last all 

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



