290 ERICACE^:. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



# # Stem upright and leaves deciduous, as in common Bluberries : flowers axillary 

 and solitai-y : corolla deeply 4-cleft: berries turning purple, insipid. 



3. V. erythrocarpon, Michx. Smooth, divergently branched (l-4 

 high); leaves oblong-lanceolate, taper-pointed, bristly serrate, thin. Wooded 

 hills, mountains of Virginia and southward. July. 



2. VITIS-ID^EA, Tourn. Ovary 4-5-celled: corolla bell-shaped, 4-5-lobed: 

 anthers 8-10, awnless : filaments hairy : flowers in short and bracted nodding 

 racemes : leaves evergreen : berries red or purple. 



4. V. Vitis-Idsea, L. (COWBERRY.) Low (6' -10' high) ; branches erect 

 from tufted creeping stems ; leaves obovate, with revolute margins, dark green, 

 smooth and shining above, dotted with blackish bristly points underneath ; co- 

 rolla bell-shaped, 4-cleft. Higher mountains of New England, also on the 

 coast of Maine, and at Danvers, Massachusetts (Oakes), and northward. June. 

 Berries dark red, acid and rather bitter, mealy, barely edible. (Eu.) 



3. PICROC6CCUS, Nutt. Ovary more or less 10-celled by false partitions : ber- 

 ries greenish, hardly edible, ripening few seeds: corolla open-bell-shaped, 5-lobed: 

 anthers 10, extended into very long much exserted tubes, 2-awnedon the back: flow- 

 ers on slender pedicels, singly in the axils of the upper leaves or leaf-like bracts, 

 forming leafy racemes, not articulated: leaves thin, deciduous. 



5. V. Stamineum, L. (DEERBERRT. SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY.) Dif- 

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

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

 globular or pear-shaped, large, greenish, mawkish. Dry woods, Maine to 

 Michigan and southward, mainly eastward. May, June. 



4. BATODENDRON, Nutt. Ovary more or less 10-celled by false partitions : 

 berries black: corolla short-bell-shaped, 5-toothed: anthers 10, included, conspicu- 

 ously 2-awned on the back, and extended into slender tubes : filaments hairy : flow- 

 ers on slender pedicels singly in the axils of coriaceous shining leaves, or racemed 

 at the end of the branches, articulated just below the ovary! 



6. V. arb6reum, Marshall. (FARKLE-BERRY.) Tall (8 -15 high), 

 smoothish; leaves oval or obovate, entire or denticulate, mucronate, bright 

 green and shining above, at the South evergreen ; corolla white ; berries mealy, 

 insipid, ripening late. Dry ground, Makanda, S. Illinois (Dr. Vasey), proba- 

 bly also in Virginia, and southward. June. 



5. EUVACCf NIUM. Ovary 4 - 5-celled, with no trace of false partitions : corolla 

 urn-shaped or globular, 4 -5-toothed: anthers 2-awned on the back: filaments 

 smooth : flowers axillary, solitary, or 2 or 3 together: berries blue or black, edible: 

 northern or alpine plants, with deciduous leaves. 



* Parts of the flower mostly in fours: stamens 8. 



7. V. Uligin6sum, L. (Boa BILBERRY.) Low and spreading (4' -18' 

 high), tufted ; leaves entire, dull, obovate or oblong, pale and slightly pubescent 

 underneath; flowers single or 2-3 together from a scaly bud, almost sessile; 

 corolla short, urn-shaped ; berries black with a bloom, sweet. Alpine tops of 

 the high mountains of New England and New York, shore of Lake Superior, 

 and northward. (Eu.) 



