ERICACEAE (hEATH FAMILY) 



* Leaves thick and evergreen^ somewhat serrate,, not resinous-dotted. 



1. G. brachycera (Michx.) Gray. (Box H.) Very smooth, 2-4 dm. high; 

 leaves oval, finely crenate-toothed ; racemes short and nearly sessile ; pedicels 

 very short; corolla cylindrical-bell-shaped. — Wooded hills. Perry Co., Pa., to 

 Del. and Va. May. — Leaves, resembling those of the Box. 



* * Leaves deciduous, entire, sprinkled more or less with resinous or waxy atoms. 



2. G. dumbsa (Andr.) T. & G. (Dwarf H.) Somewhat hairy and glan- 

 dular, low, 2-15 dm. high, from a creeping base, bushy; leaves obovate-oblong, 

 mucronate, green both sides, rather thick and shining when old ; racemes elon- 

 gated ; bracts leaf-like, oval, persistent, as long as the pedicels; ovary bristly or 

 glandular ; corolla bell-shaped ; fruit black. — Sandy swamps, Nfd. to Fla. and 

 La., mostly on the coastal plain. June. 



Var. hirtella (Ait. f.) Gray. Young branchlets, racemes, and often the 

 leaves bristly-hairy. — Va. to Fla., etc. 



3. G. frondbsa (L.) T. & G. (Blue Tangle, Dangleberry.) Slender, 

 5-L5 dm. high ; branches smooth, divergent; leaves obovate-oblong, blunt, pale, 

 finely pubescent and glaucous beneath, in maturity 2.5-6.5 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. 

 broad ; racemes slender, loose ; bracts oblong or linear, deciduous, shorter than 

 the slender drooping pedicels ; corolla globular-bell-shaped ; fruit dark blue with 

 a white bloom, sweet and edible. — Low copses, coast of N. H. to O. and La. 

 May, June. 



4. G. ursina (M. A, Curtis) T. & G. (Bear H.) Similar; branches smooth 

 or slightly hairy ; leaves green both sides, thin, oblong to lance-obovate, acumi- 

 nate, in maturity 5-12 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. broad; fruit reddish, becoming 

 black, insipid. — Woods, Ky. to N. C. and Ga. May, June. 



5. G. baccata (Wang.) C. Koch. (Black H.) Much branched, rigid, 

 slightly pubescent when young, 0.3-1 m. high ; leaves oval, oblong-ovate, or 

 oblong, thickly clothed and at first clammy, as well as the flowers, with shining 

 resinous globules ; racemes short, clustered, one-sided ; pedicels about the length 

 of the flowers ; bracts and bractlets reddish ; corolla ovoid-conical, or at length 

 cylindrical with an open mouth ; fruit black, without bloom, pleasant. {G. 

 resinosa T. & G.) — Rocky woodlands and swamps, Nfd. to Man., s. to e. la., 

 Wise, Mich., 111., and Ga. May, June. Forma glaucocArpa (Robinson) Mac- 

 kenzie. (Blue H.) Fruit blue, with a bloom, generally larger and juicier, — 

 Me. to N. C. Forma leucocArpa (Porter) Fernald. (White H.) Berries 

 white to pinkish, somewhat translucent. — Local, but occasionally abundant Jtnd 

 fruitful. 



9.1. VACCINIUM L. Blueberry. Cranberry 



Corolla various in shape; the limb 4-5-cleft, revolute. Stamens 8 or 10 ; 

 anthers sometimes 2-awned on the back ; the cells opening by a hole at the 

 apex. Berry 4-5-celled, many-seeded, or sometimes S-lO-celled by a false 

 partition stretching from the back of each cell to the placenta. — Shrubs with 

 solitary, clustered, or racemed flowers, in spring or early summer; the corolla 

 white or reddish. (Ancient Latin name, of obscure derivation.) 



§ 1. BATODENDRON (Nutt.) Gray. Corolla open-campanul ate, 5-lohed ; an- 

 thers vnth long tubes, and 2-awned on the back; berry spuriously lO-celled; 

 leaves deciduous but firm; flowers solitary or in leafy-bracted racemes, 

 slender-pedicel ed. 



* Flowers articulated with the pedicel; anthers included. 



1. V. arbbreum Marsh. (Farkleberry.) Tall (2-9 m. high), smoothish ; 

 leaves obovate to oblong, entire or denticulate, mucronate, bright green, shining 

 above, at the South evergreen ; corolla white ; berries black, globose, small, 

 manv-seeded. (Batodendron Nutt. ; B. andrachneforme Small.) — Sandy soil 

 8, lU. to Tex., Fla . and N. C. 



