248 ekicacejE. (heath family.) 



i 1. 0XYC6CCUS, Toum. — Ouaty 4-celled : corolla i^rted, Hie long and nar- 

 row divisions revolute : anthers 8, aumless, tapering upwards into very long tvhes 



* Stems very slender, creeping or trailing ; leaves small, entire, whitened beneath, ever- 

 green : pedicels erect, with the pale rose-colored flower nodding on their summit ; 

 corolla deeply 4-parted ; berries red, acid. 



1. v. Oxycdccus, L. (Small Ceanberkt.) Stems very slender 

 (4' -9' long); leaves ovate, acute, with strongly revolute margins (2" -3" long); 

 pedicels 1-4, terminal; filaments more than half the length of the anthers. 

 (Oxycoccus vulgaris, Pursh.) — Peat-bogs, New England and Penn. to Wis- 

 consin, and northward. June. — Berry 3" -4" broad, spotted when young, sel- 

 dom sufficiently abundant to be gathered for the market. (Eu.) 



2. T. macrocdrpon, Ait. (Comjuok Amukican Cbanbekby.) 

 Stems elongated (l°-3° long), the flowering branches ascending; leaves oblong, 

 obtuse, glaucous underneath, less revolute (4" - 6" long) ; pedicels several, be- 

 coming lateral; filaments scarcely one third the length of the anthers. (0. ma- 

 crocarpus, Pers.) — Peat-bogs, Virginia to Wisconsin, and everywhere north- 

 ward. June. — Berry J' - 1 ' long. 



* * Stem upright and leaves deciduous, as in common Blueberries : flowers axillary 



and solitary ; corolla deeply 4-cleft ; berries turning purple, insipid. 



3. V. erythroc&rpon, Michx. Smooth, divergently branched (1°- 

 4° high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, taper-pointed, bristly serrate, thin. — Wooded 

 hills, mountains of Vii-ginia and southward. July. 



§ 2. VITIS-IDjEA, Toum. — Ovary 4- 5-celled: corolla bell-shaped, 4 - 5-Mied : 

 anther's 8-10, aumless : filaments hairy : flowers in short and bracted nodding ra- 

 cemes : leaves evergreen : berries red or purple. 



4. y. VitiS-Ideea, L. (Cowbekrt.) Low (6'- 10' high); branches 

 erect from tufted creeping stems ; leaves obovate, with revolute margins, dark 

 green, smooth and shining above, dotted with blackish bristly points under- 

 neath; corolla bell-shaped, 4-cleft. — Higher mountains of New England, also 

 on the coast of Maine, and at Danvers, Massachusetts (Oalces), and northward. 

 June. — BeiTies dark red, acid and rather bitter, mealy, barely edible. (Eu.) 



§ 3. BATOD^fcNDRON. — Chary mare or less completely lO-cdled by flilse parti- 

 tions : corolla spreading-campanulate, 5-lobed : anthers 2-awned on the back : fila- 

 ments hairy : berries mawkish and scarcely edible, ripening few seeds : fioujers soli- 

 tary on slender pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves, forming a sort of leafy 

 racemes. 



5. V. stamineum, L. (Deekeerht. Squaw Hucklbbeeet.) 

 Diffusely branched (2° -3° high), somewhat pubescent; leaves ovate or oval, 

 pale, whitish underneath, deciduous ; tubes of the anthers much longer than the 

 corolla, short-awned ; berries globular or pear-shaped, greenish. — D17 woods, 

 Maine to Michigan, and southward. May, June. 



(V. aeb6eedm, Michx., the Earklb-bbeet, a tall species of this section, 

 with evergreen leaves, probably extends northward into Virginia.) 



