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slender racemes, with moderately long pedicels of short, somewhat 

 egg-shaped flowers ; fruit bluish black with a bloom, sweet, com- 

 monly gathered for sale. 



II. VACCINIUM, BLUEBERRY, CRANBERRY. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla urn-shaped, bell-shaped, or cylin- 

 drical, the limb 4 or 6-cleft, reflexed. Stamens 8 or 10, each 

 of the anther-cells prolonged into a tube opening at the 

 top. Ovary several to many-ovuled, ripening into a com- 

 monly many-seeded berry. The fruit of all the species here 

 described excepting V. stamineum, the deerberry, is much 

 valued. 



a. (V. Pennsylvanicum), Common Dwarf Blueberry. A low, 

 delicate shrub, 6-15 in. high, with green branches, shining oblong 

 leavies, bristly-serrulate and acute at both ends ; flowers in short, close 

 racemes, oblong or nearly so, with the anthers enclosed in the corolla- 

 tube ; berries 10-celled, many-seeded, somewhat flattened, usually 

 with much bloom, sweet, the earliest blueberries in the market. 



h. (V. VAOiLLANs), Low BLUEBERRY. A low bushy shrub, 1-3 

 ft. high; leaves obovate to oval, acute, entire or nearly so, dull, pale 

 green, smooth beneath ; racemes dense, appearing before the leaves 

 are fully grown ; berries 10-celled, not large, sweet, bluish black. 



c. (V. corymbosum), Swamp Blueberry, High Blueberry. 

 A tall, rather erect shrub, 5-10 ft. high ; leaves from oval to broadly 

 lanceolate, in some varieties smooth, in others downy ; berries 10- 

 celled, generally with a bloom, more acid and frequently larger than 

 in the two preceding species, ripening later. Occurs in low wet 

 woods or in swamps ; very variable. 



d. (V. stamineum), Deerberry, Squaw . Huckleberry. A 

 somewhat downy shrub, 2-3 ft. high ; leaves ovate, oval or oval- 

 lanceolate, acute, dull and pale, smooth beneath ; pedicels solitary 

 in the axils ; corolla spreading, bell-shaped, greenish or whitish ; 

 anthers 10, projecting from the corolla-tube ; fruit greenish white, 

 10-celled, few-seeded, barely eatable. 



e. (V. macrocarpon). Cranberry. A delicate creeping plant, 

 with barely woody stems 1-3 feet long ; leaves evergreen, oblong, 

 obtuse, white beneath, with the edges somewhat rolled under ; 

 pedicels slender, axillary, 1-flowered ; corolla pale rose-color, parted 

 into 4 linear-lanceolate, reflexed divisions ; stamens 8 ; berries 4- 

 celled, many-seeded, somewhat spherical or ellipsoidal, large, in some 

 localities reddish purple, in others deep purple, very acid. Grows 

 usually in peat-bogs or in meadows which are sometimes overflowed. 



