224 Vacciniaceae 



A low evergreen shrub with 

 Vitis-idsea 



Vitis-idsea creeping stems, the branches 

 (L.)Britton. erect, 3-8 inches high, nearly 

 Mountain smooth. Leaves thick and 

 leathery, crowded, green and 

 shining above, paler and black-dotted be- 

 neath, ovate or oval, short-petioled and 

 entire or sparingly serrulate J-f of an inch 

 long, the margins re volute. Flowers in 

 short terminal i -sided racemes or clusters, 

 nodding, longer than their pedicels; corolla 

 white or pink nearly J of an inch long, open 

 campanulate, 4-lobed; berries dark red, acid, 

 nearly J an inch in diameter. 



In bogs and moist mossy places through- 

 out the Rockies; flowering during June. 



Creeping, branches rough hairy, 



slender, 3-12 inches long. 

 hispidula 



(L.)T.andG. Leaves leathery, persistent, oval, 

 Creeping ovate or slightly obovate, acute 

 Snowberry. at t h e a pex, rounded or nar- 

 rowed at the base, dark green and smooth 

 above, sprinkled with stiff, brown hairs be- 



