260 ERICACEAE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



beneath ; calyx-teeth obtuse, and, like the pedicels and broadly oval bracts, red- 

 dish ; corolla ovoid or obovate, white ; berry somewhat pear-shaped, black. 

 Low pine barrens, Georgia and Florida. March and April. Stem 1 - 2 high. 

 Leaves ' long. 



7. V. myrsinites, Michx. Stem much branched, pubescent ; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, oblong, or obovate, bristly-serrulate, shining above, paler beneath, glau- 

 cous when young ; calyx-teeth acute, reddish, like the pedicels and oblong bracts ; 

 corolla cylindrical or obovate, white, purplish in the bud ; berry globose, blue. 

 Sandy pine barrens, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. March and 

 April. Shrub 6' - 1 8' high. Leaves ' - 1 ' long. 



* * Leaves deciduous. 



8. V. tenellum, Ait. Stem much branched; the spreading greenish 

 branches pubescent ; leaves oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, mucronate, acute at 

 the base, slightly serrulate near the apex, pubescent when young ; corolla oblong, 

 white ; calyx-teeth obtuse ; bracts oblong-linear ; berry globose, black or with a 

 blue bloom. Varies with the branches and leaves more pubescent, almost vil- 

 lous, and the calyx-teeth narrower and acute. (V. galezans, Michx.) Margins 

 of pine-barren swamps, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April. 

 Shrub l-3 high. Leaves '-1' long, commonly thin and deciduous, but 

 along its southern limits mostly coriaceous and persistent. 



9. V. Elliottii. Stem tall, slender, with spreading branches ; leaves dis- 

 tichous, ovate-lanceolate, very acute, bristly serrulate from the obtuse or rounded 

 base, pubescent on the veins ; clusters sessile, 2 - 4-flowered ; corolla reddish, 

 cylindrical, short-pedicelled ; calyx-teeth triangular ; berry mostly solitary, small, 

 globose, black. (V. myrtilloides, Ell., not of Michx.) River-swamps, Florida 

 to South Carolina. March. Shrub 4 -8 high; the branches smooth and 

 mostly flexuous. Leaves ^' - f ' long. 



10. V. corymbosum, L. Stem tall (4 -10); leaves varying from 

 ovate-lanceolate to broadly oval, entire or nearly so, pubescent when young, be- 

 coming smoothish especially above (!' -2' long) ; racemes or clusters numerous, 

 mostly on leafless branches ; corolla cylindrical or oblong ; berry globose, black 

 or blue. Margins of ponds and swamps, Florida, and northward. Feb. to 

 April. Varies greatly in the thickness, pubescence, and form of the leaves, and 

 includes several nominal species. 



11. V. Constablsei, Gray. Stem low (l-3); leaves oval, pale, glau- 

 cous, glandular- mucronate, entire or obscurely serrulate, ciliate ; racemes very 

 short, sessile ; corolla short-cylindrical ; berry blue. On the summit of Roan 

 Mountain, North Carolina. July. Leaves l'-2' long. Racemes 5-10- 

 flowered. 



12. V. hirsutum, Buckley. Hirsute throughout; stem low (1 high), 

 much branched ; leaves ovate, entire, slightly mucronate ; racemes short; corolla 

 oblong, contracted at the apex, the teeth short; berry globose. Mountains of 

 Cherokee County, North Carolina. Buckley. 



