444 ERICACEAE. Vaccinium. 



Flowers nearly sessile, often solilary, but in luxuriant specimens fasciculate. Calyx 4 - 5- 

 toothed. Corolla small, pale rose-color, with 4-5 revolute teeth. Stamens 8, sometimes 10, 

 included : anthers with 2 long ascending horns arising from the middle of the back. Berries 

 deep blue ; the tubular appendages very short. 



Clefts of rocks along the sources of the Hudson, in the mountains of Essex county. Fl. 

 July. It is found also on the Wiiite Hills, and in the northern parts of both hemispheres. 



& 2. Ovary 5-celkd ; the back of the cells more or less introflexed : corolla urceolate or ovoid-cylindrical: 

 anthers not atcned on the back : flowers in short racemes or fasciculate, often appearing before 

 the leaves : seeds oval, compressed, reticulate-pitted. 



2. Vaccinium \ accillans, Kalm. Low Blue Huckleberry. 

 Branches angular (greenish), smooth ; leaves oval, elliptical or obovate, serrulate, dull, 



smooth on both sides, acute or rather obtuse, mucronulate ; racemes very short, clustered ; 

 corolla campanulate-cylindraceous. — Kalm, mss. in Herb. Banks. V. Pennsylvanicum, 

 Torr. fl. 1. p. 416 (in part). V. virgatum, Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 152. 



Stem 1^-2 feet high, much branched ; the branches of a dull greenish color, and either 

 smooth or very slightly roughened with minute warts. Leaves deciduous, 1-1^ inch long, 

 rather obscurely serrulate ; the serratures more distinct towards the apex, and there sometimes 

 mucronulate. Racemes usually appearing before the leaves are more than half expanded, 

 arising from scaly buds distinct from those of the leaves ; the pedicels shorter than the flowers, 

 smooth. Calyx smooth, greenish or reddish ; the segments short and rather acute. Corolla 

 about 3 lines long, rather open, greenish white and often lingcd with red. Stamens included : 

 anther-lobes with long tubular appendages, which are very obliquely truncated or slit on one 

 side. Ovary smooth ; the false dissepiment of each cell extending nearly to the placenta : 

 style often a little exserted : stigma capitate. Berries dark blue, glaucous, very sweet and 

 well flavored. 



Open woods and thickets ; common in the vicirJty of New-York, and along the Hudson, 

 but rare in the western and northern counties. Near Oriskany, Dr. Knieskern found a var. 

 with small lanceolate-elliptical leaves. Fl. May. Fr. July. This species has probably been 

 confounded by most of our botanists with the following. They are both known by the name 

 of Sugar Huckleberry, in some parts of the country. 



3. Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, Lam. Dwarf Blue Ilucldehcrry. 

 Branches verrucose, smooth (greenish), somewhat angular ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or 



elliptical-lanceolate, acute at each end, glandularly mucronate, conspicuously serrulate with 

 ciliate-mucronate serratures, smooth and shining on both sides, prominently veined ; racemes 

 short and clustered ; corolla cyliiidraceous-campanulate. — Lam. diet. 1. p. 72 ; Miclix. fl. 1. 

 p. 223 ; Hook. ft. Bur.-Am. 2. p. 32, and bot. mag. t. 3434 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 257 ; 



