AMERICAN CRANBERRY 



CREEPING SNOWBERRY 



Chiogencs serpyllifblia. Chidgenes hispidula. 



Chiogones, snow born, in allusion to the white berries. 



A trailing and creeping evergreen, with slender 



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

 small leaves and solitary, axillary, 

 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 ; 

 calvx 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 Snowberrv. Chiosienes 

 hispidula. Leaves jV to \i' 

 long. 



AMERICAN CRANBERRY 



Oxycdccus macroccirpus. 



Oxy coccus, 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, and petals, as 

 the bud is about to unfold, and the neck, head, and bill 

 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 peduncles, pale pink flowers. The leaves are 



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