HEATH FAMILY. 211 
ovate, oval, Coe or pt AA ee id mostly entire ; racemes short, 
clustered on naked branchle 
Couiriencse Vaccrinim™. “nae Blueberry. Tall Huckleberry. 
10 feet high, often a with ve straggling branches—the young 
Stem 5-8 0 
leafing branches : pubescent—the flow r-beari ing ones somewhat angular, naked and 
clining to a ish bronze shies, ‘oe saat srl ches long, ark elliptic, entire, and 
oO i pubescen t when n yo 
rather large, black with a bluish bl when mature, very agreeable to the 
Swamps and moist woods : Canada to Georgia. FI. May. Fr. July -A' 
Obs. This species presents several varieties, which have been consid- 
ered by so ree, as = eee es differi ee in the pbescnce of 
the leaf. One variety, var. atrocar’ pun, @ ray, has the 
even when and: ton black berries without any bloom. 
species of v ne Nsremge those here enumerated are found in differ- 
ent partsis of the ry, but these are the most useful 
descriptions of the a must be sought in works of a more extended 
— than the present one. 
3. ARCTOSTA’PHYLOS, Adans.. Bearperry. 
ga Seen and Staphyle, a grape.] 
Corolla ovate and urn-shaped, with a short, yore eer limb. 
oo 10, included ; i panther Seer tv ne eflexed a ae _ e back near 
ing by ‘terminal pores. yoni i 
sate, © Sheube with alternate iting: and fb cataly bis racted nearly white 
flowers in terminal racemes or ruit austere. Ki 
1. A. Uva-ur'’si, Spreng. Procumbent; leaves obo- 
pots or palate entire, thick, smooth, evergreen ; fruit 
Bearberry. Upland Cranberry. Uva-u 
Stems branched, trailing on the ground, the pene branches 
8 feet tong, the ‘flow Sie ae ones shorter. ut 3 = pe an a 
long, pre or somewhat sonree 
drooping ; ‘color, somewhat transparent at base, hairy 
inside. Fruit arose as size of a 2 pea, ore 5 closely-coher- 
Dp. 
Fic. 144 An enlarged anther of the Bearberry (Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi each of the 
a aN 
nished with 
