Vaccinium. ERICACEAE. 21 



Batodendron arhoreum, Nutt. 1. c, & Sylv. iii. 43. — Sandy soil, Florida and Texas to N. 

 Carolina and S. Illinois. There is an unusually narrow-leaved form in Texas. 

 * * Flower not articulated with the pedicel : anthers much exserted: berry greenish or yellowish, 

 ripening few and proportionately large seeds. (Pici-ococcus, Nutt. 1. c.) 



V. Stamineum., L. (Deeebeery.) Shrub 2 or 3 feet high, with divergent branches, 

 minutely pubescent, or at length glabrous : leaves pale and dull or glaucous, especially 

 beneath, from oval to lanceolate-oblong : ovary glabrous : flowers nearly all axillary : 

 corolla dull purplish or yellowish-green, deeply 5-cleft : awns of the anthers very much 

 shorter than the elongated tubes : berry large, pear-shaped or globular, mawkish. — Andr. 

 Bot. Rep. t. 263. V. elevatum, Solander; Dunal, in DC. 1. c. 567 (excl. var.) V. cdhum, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 28, not L. Picrococcus stamineus, elevatus, & Floridanus, Nutt. 1. c. — Dry woods, 

 Maine to Michigan and south to Florida and Louisiana : rare west of the Alleghanies. 

 ( V. Kunthianum, lilotzsch, the V. stamineum, HBK. t. 353, has much shorter anther-tubes, and 

 a hairy ovary.) 



§ 2. Cyanococcus, Gray. (Blueberry.) Corolla from cylindraceous to 

 campanulate-oblong or ovoid, 5-toothed : filaments hairy : anthers included, awh- 

 less : ovary and berry completely or incompletely 10-celled by a spurious par- 

 tition or projection from the back of each carpel: berry blue or black with a 

 bloom, juicy, sweet and edible, many-seeded : flowers (white or rose-color) in 

 fascicles or very short racemes, developed with or a little before the leaves from 

 large and separate scaly buds, short-pedicelled : scaly bractlets as well as bracts 

 mostly caducous or deciduous. (Atlantic North-American with one exception.) 



* Evergreen leaves coriaceous : bracts of firmer texture, reddish, and tardily deciduous. 

 V. nitidum, Andr. Diffusely much branched and very leafy, a foot or two high : leaves 

 thick-coriaceous, sliining, at least above, slightly veined, from obovate to oblanceolate- 

 oblong, a fourth to half inch long, obscurely denticulate and glandular : calyx-teeth and 

 almost persistent bracts roundish and very obtuse :, corolla rose-red or turning white, rather 

 short and broad (2 lines long) : berry " somewhat pear-shaped, black." — Bot. Rep. t. 480 ; 

 Dunal in DC. 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. 259. — Low pine barrens, Florida and Georgia. Near to or 

 passing into the next. 

 V. Myrsinites, Lam. A span to 2 feet high, much branched : branchlets, &c., when 

 young puberulent ; leaves from obovate and obtuse to oblong-lanceolate and acute or spat- 

 ulate, often cuspidate, from a third to a full inch long, sometimes denticulate, moderately 

 coriaceous, mostly shining above, dull or paler and sometimes glaucous underneath, more 

 veiny : bracts from ovate to lanceolate, less persistent ; calyx-teeth acute or acutish : 

 corolla at length cylindraceous, 2 or 3 lines long, soon white : " berry globose, blue." — 

 Diet. i. 73; Michx. Fl. i. 233; Pursh, Fl. i. 290 (with vars. /anceofatum and ohlusum) ; Dunal, 

 1. c. ; Chapm. 1. c. V. nitidum, var. decumbens, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1650 ? — Sandy pine 

 barrens, Florida to Louisiana and N. Carolina. 



Var. glaucum. A low form, with small leaves dull or glaucous above and very 

 glaucous beneatli,"at least when young. — New Orleans ? (Drummond) to Alabama, &c. 



# * Leaves thinner, deciduous : scalj' bracts more deciduous. 

 ^— Corolla when developed cylindrical or cylindraceous. Southern species, the leaves far south- 

 ward sometimes persisting until flowering" the next spring. 

 V. formosuin, Andr. Two or 3 feet high : leaves ovate or oblong, entire (an inch or 

 two long), smooth and bright green above, either glabrous or pubescent beneath, of firmer 

 texture than in the others of the section : flower-clusters loose : calyx and tardily decidu- 

 ous bracts red or reddish: corolla rose-red, 4 or 5 lines long. — Bot. Rep. t. 97. — Georgia 

 or Florida, " Wm. Young," James Reed: specimens by the latter with flower-clusters in tlie 

 axils of persistent leaves. Related to large-leaved forms of the preceding, and may 

 probably pass into the next. 

 V. virgatum, Ait. Low, or a yard or so high, more or less pubescent : leaves from 

 ovate-oblong to cuneate-lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, usually acute or pointed and 

 minutely serrulate, thinnish, lucid at least above, commonly an incli or so in length : flower- 

 clusters sometimes virgate on naked branches : bracts more deciduous : corolla rose-color, 



