140 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



trailing very slender shrubby plant, -with ovate acute ever- 

 green leaves only J of an inch long, the margins revolute. 

 Corolla rose-ccloured, 4-parted, the lobes reflexed. Anthers 

 8. Stem 4-9 inches long. Berry only about J of an inch 

 across, often speckled with white. — Bogs. 



2. V. maeFOear'pon, Ait. (Oxycoccus macrocarpus, 

 Pursh, in Maooun's Catalogue.) (Large or American Cran- 

 berry.) Different from No. 1 in having prolonged stems 

 (1-3 feet long) and the flowering branches lateral. The 

 leaves also are nearly twice as large, and the herry is fully ^ 

 an inch hroad. — Bogs. 



3. V. Vitis-Idsea, L. A low plant with erect branches 

 from tufted creeping stems. Leaves evergreen, ohovate, 

 with revolute margins, shining above, dotted with blackish 

 bristly points beneath. Corolla hell-shaped, 4-lobed. An- 

 thers 8-10. Flowers in a short braoted raceme. — Northward 

 and eastward. 



4. V. Pennsylvan'ieum, Lam. (Dwaee Blueberry.) 

 Stem 6-15 inches high, the branches green, angled and 

 warty. Corolla cylindrical, bell-shaped, 5-toothed. An- 

 thers lO. -Flowers in short racemes. Leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong, serrulate with bristly-pointed teeth, smooth and 

 shining on both sides. Berry blue or black, with a bloom 

 — Dry plains and woods. 



5. V. Canaden'se, Kalm. (Canadian Blueberry.) Stem 

 1-2 feet high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, entire, 

 downy both sides, as are also the branchlets. — A very com- 

 mon Canadian species. 



6. V. vaeil'lans, Solander. (Low Blueberry.) Stem 

 1-2 feet high, glabrous, with yollowish-green branchlets. 

 Leaves ohovate or oval, very pale or dull and glaucous, at 

 least beneath. Corolla between bell-shaped and cylindl-a- 

 ceous, the mouth somewhat contracted. — Dry soil ; western 

 Ontario mostly. 



7. V. eorymbo'sum, L., (Swamp Blueberry) is a, tall 

 shrub (3-10 feet) growing in swamps and low grounds, witn 



