312 EBICACE^. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



2. V ACCINIUM, L. BLUEBERRY. BILBERRY. CRANBERRY. 

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

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

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

 or sometimes 8 - 10-celled by a false partition stretching from the back 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. BATOD^NDRON. Corolla open-campanulate, 5-lobed ; anthers with long 

 tubes, and %-awned on the back; berry (hardly edible) spuriously IQ-celled ; 

 leaves deciduous but firm ; flowers solitary or in leafy-bracted racemes, 

 slender-pedicelled. 



1. V. arb6reum, Marshall. (FARKLE-BERRY.) Tall (6-25 high), 

 smoothish ; leaves obovate to oblong, entire or denticulate, mucronate, bright 

 green, shining above, at the south evergreen ; corolla white ; anthers included ; 

 berries black, globose, small, many-seeded. Sandy soil, S. 111. to Tex., Fla., 

 and N. C. 



2. V. stamineum, L. (DEERBERRY. SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY.) Dif- 

 fusely branched (2-3 high), somewhat pubescent; leaves ovate or oval, pale, 

 glaucous or whitish underneath ; corolla greenish-white or purplish ; anthers 

 much exserted ; berries greenish or yellowish, globular or pear-shaped, large, 

 few-seeded. Dry woods, Maine to Minn., south to Fla. and La. 



2. CYANOC6CCUS. (BLUEBERRIES.) Corolla cylindraceous to campan- 

 ulate, 5-toothed ; filaments hairy ; anthers included, awnless ; berry (sweet 

 and edible) blue or black with bloom, completely or incompletely IQ-celled ; 

 flowers in fascicles or short racemes, short-pedicelled, appearing from large 

 scaly buds with or before the leaves. 



* Corolla cylindraceous when developed. 



3. V. virgatum, Ait. Low, more or less pubescent ; leaves ovate-oblong 

 to cuneate-lanceolate, usually acute and minutely serrulate, thinnish, shining 

 at least above ; flower-clusters sometimes virgate on naked branches ; corolla 

 rose-color ; berry black. In swamps, south of our range, but represented by 



Var. tenellum, Gray. Low form, mostly small-leaved, with smaller 

 nearly white flowers in shorter or closer clusters. Va. to Ark., and southward. 

 # # Corolla shorter and broader. (BLUEBERRIES or BLUE HUCKLEBERRIES.) 



4. V. Pennsylvanicum, Lam. (DWARF BLUEBERRY.) Dwarf (6- 

 15' high), smooth, with green warty stems and branches; leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong, distinctly serrulate with bristle-pointed teeth, smooth and shining both sides 

 (or sometimes downy on the midrib underneath) ; corolla short, cylindrical- 

 bell-shaped ; berries bluish-black and glaucous. Dry hills, N. J. to 111., north 

 to Newf. and Sask. The lowest and earliest ripened of the blueberries. Var. 

 ANGUSTIF6LIUM, Gray ; a dwarfer high-mountain or northern form, with nar- 

 rower lanceolate leaves. White Mts. of N. H., Newf., and far northward. 



5. V. Canad^nse, Kalm. Low (1-2 high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or 

 elliptical, entire, downy both sides, as well as the crowded branchlets ; corolla 

 ihorter ; otherwise as the last. Swamps or moist woods, N. New Eng. to 

 mountains of Penn., 111., Minn., and northward. 



