AMERICAN CRANBERRY 



CREEPING SNOWBERRY 



Chioi^incs scrpyllifblia. Chioi^em-s Ju'spidula. 

 Chioi^oncs, snow born, in allusion to the white berries. 



A trailing and creeping evergreen, witli slender 

 hairy branches and alternate two-ranked, oval or ovate, 

 small leaves and solitary, axillar}^ 

 small, greenish white flowers on 

 short recurved peduncles. A na- 

 tive of cold, wet woods, it ranges 

 across the continent from New- 

 foundland to British Columbia and 

 southward to Michigan and North 

 Carolina. The flowers appear in 

 May and June, are bell-shaped ; 

 calyx four-cleft ; corolla four-lobed ; 

 stamens eight ; ovary four-celled. 

 The berry is snow white, aromatic, 

 many-seeded, rather mealy ; usual- 

 ly minutely bristly. 



Creeping Snowberry, C.bio^cnes 

 biipidnla. Leaves I'o' to Y/ 

 long. 



AMERICAN CRANBERRY 



Oxycoccus macrocdrpus. 



Oxycocctis, sharp berry, of Greek derivation, referring to 

 the sharp acid of the fruit. Cranberry is referred to a fan- 

 cied resemblance between the stem, calyx, ami petals, as 

 the bud is about to unfold, and the neck, head, and l)ill 

 of a crane ; hence craneberry, soon corrupted into cran- 

 berry. 



A trailing evergreen shrub with short, erect fruiting 

 branches, alternate, nearly sessile leaves, and nodding 

 slender })eduncles, pale pink flowers. I'he leaves are 



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