Vaccinlum. ERICACE.E. 21 



Batodendron arboreum, Xutt. 1. c, & Sylr. iii. 43. — Sandy soil, Florida and Texas to X. 

 Carolina and S. Illinois. Tliere is an unusually narrow-leaved form in Texas. 



* * FlfAver not articulated with the pedicel : anther^ much exserted: berry greenish or yellowish, 

 ripeniiig few and proportionately hir^a seeds. (Picrococcus, Xuti. 1. c.) 



• V. staminenm, L. (Deerbekrv.) Slvrub 2 or 3 feet high, with divergent brandies, 

 minutely pubescent, or at length glabrous : leaves pale and dull or glaucous, especially 

 beneath, from oval to lanceolate-oblong : ovary glabrous : flowers nearly all axillary : 

 corolla dull purplish or yellowish-green, deeply 5-cleft : awns of the anthers very much 

 sliorter than the elongated tubes : berry large, pear-sliaped or globular, mawkish. — Andr. 

 Bot. Rep. t. 263. 1' devatum, Solander; Diuial. in DC. 1. c. -StiT (excl. var.) 1'. album, 

 Pursh, n. i. 28, not L. Picrococcus slamineus, elecatas, &■ Floridanus, Xutt. 1. c. — Dry woods, 

 Maine to Jlichigan and south to Florida and Louisiana: rare west of the AUeghanies. 

 ( I . Kunthiaimm, Klotzsch, the I', slamineum, HBK. t. 353, has much shorter anther-tubes, and 

 a hairy ovary. ) 



§ 2. CvAxococcrs. Gray. (Blceberrt.) Corolla from cylindraceous to 

 campanulate-obloiig or ovoid, .^-toothed: filaments hairy: anthers included, aw n- 

 le;s: ovary and berry completely or incompletely 10-ceIled by a spurious par- 

 ti :ion or projection from the back of each carpel: berry blue or black with a 

 bloom, juicy, sweet and edible, many-seeded: flower.? (white or rose-color) in 

 fascicles or very short racemes, developed with or a little before the leaves from 

 ]ari;e and separate scaly buds, short-pedicelled : scaly bractlets as well as bracts 

 mostly caducous or deciduous. (Atlantic Xorth-American with one exception.) 



* Evergreen lea^-es coriaceous : bracts of firmer texture, reddi>h, and tardily deciduous. 

 V. nitidum, Andr. Diffusely much branched and very leafy, a foot or two high : leaves 

 thick-coriaceous, sliining, at least above, slightly veined, from obovate to oblanceolate- 

 oblong, a fourth to half inch long, obscurely denticulate and glandular: calyx-teeth and 

 almost persistent bracts roundish and very obtuse : corolla rose-red or turning white, rather 

 sliort and broad ( 2 lines long) : berry " somewhat pear-shaped, black." — Bot. Rep. t. 4>>ri ; 

 Dunal in DC. 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. 230. — Low pine barrens, Florida and Georgia. Xear to or 

 passing into the next. 



►v. Myrsinites, Lam. -A. span to 2 feet high, much branched: branchlets, &c., when 

 young puberulent : leaves from obovate and obtuse to oblong-lanceolate and acute or spat- 

 ula te, often cuspidate, from a third to a full inch long, sometimes denticulate, moderately 

 coriaceous, mostly shining above, dull or paler and sometimes glaucous underneath, more 

 veiny: bracts from ovate to lanceolate, less persistent; calyx-teeth acute or acutish: 

 corolla at length cylindraceous, 2 or 3 lines long, soon white: "berry globose, blue." — 

 Diet. i. 73 ; !Michx. Fl. i. 2;]3; Pursli, Fl. i. 2''0 (with vars. lanceolaium and ohhisuw) : Dunal, 

 1. c. ; Cliapm. 1. c. I", nitidum, var. decumbens, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. l-S-SO i — Sandy pine 

 barrens, Florida to Louisiana and X. Carolina. 



Var. glaucum. A low form, with small leaves dull or glaucous above and very 

 glaucous beneatli, at least when young. — Xew Orleans ? (Drummond) to Alabama, &c. 



* * Leaves thinner, deciduous : scaly bracts more deciduous. 



•—- Ct^rolla when developed cylindrical or cylindraceous. S'tuthem species, the leaves far south- 

 ward sometimes persisung until tiowerinj tlie next spring. 



V. forraosum, Andr. Two or 3 feet liigb: leaves ovate or oblong, entire (an inch or 

 two long), smooth and bright green above, either glabrous or pubescent beneath, of firmer 

 texture than in the others of the section : flower-clusters loose : calyx and tardily decidu- 

 ous bracts red or reddish : corolla rose-red, 4 or 5 lines long. — Bot. Rep. t. ''7. — Georgia 

 or Florida, " ir»i. Yonnq," James R^ed: specimens by the latter with flower-clusters in the 

 axils of persistent leaves. Related to large-leaved forms of the preceding, and may 

 probably pass into the next. 



V. virgatum, Ait. Low, or a yard or so high, more or less pubescent : leaves from 

 ovate-oblong to cuneate-lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, usually acute or pointed and 

 minutely serrulate, thinnish, lucid at least above, commonly an inch or so in length : flower- 

 clusters sometimes ^irgate on naked branches : bracts more deciduous : corolla rose-color. 



