170 POPULAR FLORA. 



Huckleberry. Gaylussacia. 

 Differing from Blueberries in the rather spicy and sweet berry having 10 large seeds, or rather 

 small stones. The foliage and young shoots in the common species are sprinkled with waxy or sticky 

 dots. Flowers purplish in racemes. 



1. Black or Common H. Branches, leaves, &c. clammy when young; racemes and pedicels short; 



fruit black, without any bloom. Very common, furnishing the principal huckleberries of the 

 market, ripe late in summer. G. resijidsa. 



2. Pale H. or Blue-Tangle. Leaves and fruit glaucous; pedicels long and drooping. G.fronddsa. 



3. DwAEF H. Branches rather hairy ; leaves thickish and shining ; racemes long, with leaf-like 



bracts. E. near the coast. G. dumdsa. 

 Blueberry. Vaccinium. 



Flowers white or tinged with pink, in short clusters, rather earlier than the leaves. Berries blue or 

 black, and generally with a bloom, many-seeded. Leaves deciduous. 



1. Common Blueberry. Stem 5° to 1 0° high ; leaves ovate, oval, or oblong. Swamps. V. corymidsum. 



2. Low B. Stems 1° high, and obovate or oval glaucous leaves smooth. V. vacillans. 



3. Dwarf B. Stems i° to 1° high, smooth, leaves lance-oblong, fringed with fine bristle-pointed teeth, 



smooth, shining both sides. Dry woods, &c. This is the eariiest blueberry or blue huchleberry 

 in the market. V. Pennsylvdnicum. 



4. Canada B. Stems 1° or 2° high ; branchlets and lance-oblong leaves downy : otherwise much like 



the last. N. ' . V. Canadense. 



Cranberry. Vaccinium, § Oxycdccus. 



Slender, almost herbaceous, creeping or trailing, growing in bogs, with their small leaves rather 



crowded, entire, thickish, and evergi'een, whitened beneath. Flowers single, nodding on the summit of 



a slender stalk, pale rose-colored, the corolla almost divided into 4 long and narrow petals turned back. 



Berries ripe in autumn. 



1. Large Cranberry. Stems 1° to 3° long; leaves oblong, blunt, nearly flat, almost V long; berries 



A' to 1' long, deep red (the principal cranberry of the market). V. macrocdrpon. 



2. Small Ckanherry. Stems hardly 1° long; leaves ovate, acute, not half as large as those of No. 1, 



the margins more rolled back; berries much smaller, often speckled. N. and in mountain bogs. 



V. Oxycdccus^ 

 Kalmia or American Laurel. Kdlmia. 



Flowers (in early summer) showy, in corymbs or umbels: an anther is at first lodged in each of the 

 10 pouches of the corolla. Leaves evergreen, very smooth. 



1. Mountain L. or K. Leaves lance-ovate, bright green both sides; flowers large, pale or deep rose- 



color, in terminal corymbs; pedicels, &c. clammy. Stems 4° to 10° high. K. latifdlia. 



2. Sheep L. or Lamekill. Leaves lance-oblong, blunt, pale beneath, petioled, mostly opposite, 



flowers small, purple; the corymbs becoming lateral; shrub 1° or 2° high. K. angustifblia. 

 8. Pale L. Leaves oblong, sessile, opposite, white-glaucous beneath; flowers few, large, lilac-purple. 

 Swamps, N. S. glauca. 



Rhododendron (or Rose-Bay). Rhododendron. 



Calyx very small or obscure. Corolla large, B-lobed. Stamens 10, more or less bent to one side, 

 slender. Shrubs or low trees, with evergreen leaves and a corymb or umbel of large and handsome 

 flowers from a terminal scaly bud, in early summer. We have only one common species, viz. : — 



