Vacciniaceae 221 



corolla lobes, inserted at the base; filaments 

 mostly short; anthers attached on the back 

 2-celled; fruit a globose berry or drupe. 



Erect deciduous shrubs; corolla cylindric or urn-shaped, 

 white, pink or greenish. Vaccinium, 



Low evergreen shrub ; corolla open-campanulate, pink ; 

 berry red. Vitis-Idaea. 



Trailing or creeping evergreen shrubs. 



Corolla short-campanulate, white; berry white. 



Chiogenes. 



Corolla with spreading curved petals, pink; berry 

 red. Oxycoccus. 



A shrub 3-7 inches high, much 

 Vaccinium 

 csespitosum branched and nearly smooth 



Michx. throughout. Leaves obovate or 



Dwarf oblong, cuneate, obtuse or acute, 



green and shining on both sides, 

 nearly sessile, serrulate, with close bluntish 

 teeth. Flowers white or pink, small bell- 

 shaped, | of an inch long, mostly solitary 

 in the axils and longer than their drooping 

 pedicels; berry J of an inch or more in di- 

 ameter, blue with a bloom. 



On slopes and in alpine meadows through- 

 out the Rockies at the higher altitudes; 



