Vox,. II. ] 



HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 



581 



3. CHIOGENES Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 2: 94. 1815. 



Creeping prostrate evergreen branching shrubs, with alternate 2-ranked oval or ovate 

 small leaves, and solitary axillary small white flowers, on short recurved peduncles. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to the lower half of the ovary, 2-bracted at the base, its limb 4-cleft. Corolla 

 short-campanulate, 4-cleft, its lobes rounded. Stamens 8, included; filaments short, nearly 

 orbicular, roughish; anthers not awned nor prolouged into tubes, each sac 2-cuspidate at 

 the apex and opening by a slit down to the middle. Ovary 4-celled, surmounted by the 8- 

 lobed disk; style short. Berry globose to oval, snow-white, many-seeded, rather mealy. 

 [Greek, snow-born, in allusion to the berries.] 



A monotypic genus of North America and Japan. 



i. Chiogenes hispidula (L,.) T. & G. 

 Creeping Snowberry. (Fig. 2798.) 



Vaccinium hispidulum L. Sp. PI. 352. 1753. 

 C. serpyllifolia Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 2: 94. 1815. 

 Chiogenes hispidula T. & G. ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i: 450. 1843. 

 Chiogenes Japonica A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part i, 26. 1878. 



Branches strigose-pubescent, very slender, 3 / -i2 / long. 

 Leaves coriaceous, persistent, oval, ovate, or slightly ob- <JN 

 ovate, short- petioled, acute at the apex, rounded or nar- 

 rowed at the base, dark green, glabrous above, entire, 

 sprinkled with appressed stiff brownish hairs beneath and 

 on the revolute margins, 2 // -5 // long; flowers few. solitary, 

 axillary, nodding, about 2" long; berry aromatic, usually 

 minutely bristly, crowned by the 4 calyx-teeth, becoming 

 almost wholly inferior, about 3" in diameter. 



In cold wet woods and bogs, Newfoundland to British Co- 

 lumbia, south to North Carolina and Michigan. Ascends to 

 5200 ft. in New Hampshire. May-June. Fruit ripe Aug.- 

 Sept. Flavor of Sweet Birch. 



4. OXYCOCCUS Hill, British Herbal, 324. 1756. 



[SCHOLLERA Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ, i: 170. 1788.] 



Glabrous, or slightly pubescent, trailing or erect shrubs, with alternate nearly sessile 

 leaves, and axillary or terminal, solitary or few, pendulous or cernuous, slender-peduncled 

 red or pink flowers. Calyx-tube nearly hemispheric, adnate to the ovary, the limb 4-5-cleft, 

 persistent. Corolla long-conic in the bud, 4~5-partcd or 4~5-divided into separate or nearly 

 separate petals, these narrow and revolute. Stamens 8 or 10, the filaments distinct; anthers 

 connivent into a cone, long-exserted when the flower is expanded, upwardly prolonged into 

 hollow tubes dehiscent by a pore at the apex. Ovary 4-5-celled; style slender or filiform. 

 Fruit an oblong or globose many-seeded juicy red berry. [Greek, sour berry.] 



Four species, natives of the northern hemisphere. 

 Trailing bog shrubs; leaves evergreen, entire; flowers 1-6 from terminal buds. 



Leaves ovate, acute, 2"~4" long: berry globose. i. O. Oxycoccus. 



Leaves oval or oblong, obtuse, 3," -7" long; berry ovoid or oblong. 2. O. macrocarpa. 



Erect mountain shrub; leaves deciduous, serrulate; flowers solitary, axillary. 3. O. erythrocarpa. 



Oxycoccus Oxycoccus (L.)MacM. Small 

 or European Cranberry. (Fig. 2799.) 



Vaccinium Oxycoccus L. Sp. PI. 351. 1753. 

 Oxycoccus palustris Pers. Syn. 1:419. 1805. 

 Schollera Oxycoccus Roth, Fl. Germ, i: 170. 1788. 

 O. Oxycoccus MacM. Bull. Torr. Club, 19: 15. 1892. 

 Stems very slender, creeping, rooting at the 

 nodes, 6'-iS' long. Branches ascending or 

 erect, i / -6 / high; leaves thick, evergreen, ovate, 

 entire, acutrsh at the apex, rounded or cordate 

 at the base, dark green above, white beneath, 

 2 // -4 // long, i // -2 // wide, the margins revolute; 

 flowers 1-6, mostly umbellate, rarely racemose, 

 from terminal scaly buds, nodding, on erect 

 mostly 2-bracteolate filiform pedicels; corolla 

 pink, about 4" broad, divided nearly to the 

 base; filaments puberulent, about half the 

 length of the anthers; berry globose, ^ // ~5 // in 

 diameter, acid, often spotted when young. 



In cold bogs, Labrador to Alaska, New Jersey, 

 Michigan and British Columbia. Also in Europe and 

 Asia. May-July. Fruit ripe Aug-Sept. Also called 

 Bog- or Marsh-wort, Moss-, Bog-, Fen- or Moor-berry. 



