616 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Synonyme. Vaccinium sp. of Lin. and others. 
Deniuations From ozus, sharp, and kokkos, a berry; in reference to the sharp acid taste of the 
Gen. Char. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla 4-parted, with nearly linear revolute 
segments, Stamens 8, with connivent filaments. Anthers tubular, 2-parted. 
Berries many-seeded. (Dons Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, sub-evergreen; small. Flowers pro- 
duced at the base of the spring branchlets, in short gemmaceous racemes ; 
pedicels filiform, conspicuously bibracteate. Berries red, rarely white, acid.— 
Shrubs, small, prostrate, creeping, growing in sphagnous morasses. Natives 
of Europe and North America. 
2 1.0, patu’stris Pers. The Marsh, or common, Cranberry. 
Identefication. Pers. Ench., 1. p. 419. 3 Don’s Mill., 3. p. 858. 
Synonymes. O. vulgaris Pursh Sept. 1. p. 263., O. europe‘us Nutt. Gen. Amer. 1. p. 251.3; Vac- 
efnium Oxycéccus Lin. Sp. 500.; Vaccinium Oxycéccus var. « ovalifdlius Michz. Fl. Bor. Amer. 
1. p. 228.5; Vaccinia palistris Ger. Emac. 1419.; Oxycéccum Cord. Hist. 140. 2. f.1.; Moss- 
berries, Moorberries, Fenberries, Marshworts, or Whortleberries, Cornberries, Eng.; Airelle 
canneberge, J'7.; gemeine Moosebeere, Ger. 
Derivation. The name of Cranberry is supposed to be given from the peduncles of the flowers being 
crooked at the top, and, before the expansion of the flowers, resembling the head and neck of a 
crane (Smith and Withering) ; or because they are much eaten by cranes. 
Engravings. F). Dan., t. 80.; Eng. Bot., t. 319. ; and our fig. 1195. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stems filiform, trailing. Leaves small, ovate, entire, acute, 
smooth, with revolute margins. Pedicels terminal, 1-flowered, of a delicate 
pink or rose colour. Segments of corolla oval. Leaves convex, and dark 
shining green above, and glaucous beneath. Stems reddish. Pedicels 
few together, about the tops of the branches, red, slightly hoary. Corolla 
pink, with reflexed oblong segments. Stamens with purple downy filaments, 
and yellow anthers. Berries pear-shaped, globular, often spotted, crimson, 
of a peculiar flavour, with a strong acidity, grateful. (Don’s Mill.) A low, 
trailing, sub-evergreen shrub. Europe, Siberia, and North America, in turfy 
mossy bogs on the mountains. Height 3in. to 6in. Flowers pink ; May 
and June. Fruit crimson ; September, remaining on during the winter. 
The plant is readily increased by laying 
sandy soil on its shoots, at the distance of 
5 or 6 inches from its main stem, when it 
will send down roots abundantly. When it 
is to be grown for its fruit, a bed of peat 
soil should be prepared in an open airy situ- 
ation, where it can be kept moist; or the 
margin of a pond may be made choice of, 
and the plants planted there in peat soil, in 
a bed encircling the pond, 1 or 2 inches 
above the level of the water, and about 1 ft. 
distant from it. The cranberry may also be 1195. 0. palustris. 
grown in beds of dry sandy peat ; and it is 
alleged by some who have tried this method in British gardens, that the fruit 
produced, though smaller in quantity, is of a better flavour 
2. 2, O. macroca’rpus Pursh. The large-fruited, or American, Cranberry. 
Identification. Pursh F1, Amer. Sept., 1. p. 263. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 858, 
Synonymes. Vaccinium macrocarpum A?t, Hort. Kew. ed. 1. vol. 2. p. 13. t.7.; Vaccinium his- 
pidulum Wanghs Amer. t.30. £.67.; Vaccinium Oxycéccus 6 oblongifolius Michz. Fl. Bor. 
mer. 1. p. 228. P 
Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 122.; Bot. Mag., t. 2586.; our Jig. 1196., and our fig. 1197. from Bot. 
ag. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stems filiform, trailing. Leaves elliptic-oblong, nearly flat, 
and obtuse, distantly sub-serrulated on the margins, glaucous beneath, downy 
at the points when young. Segments of the corolla linear-lanceolate. 
Flower-bearing branches erect, proliferous. Pedicels lateral. Points of 
young leaves, peduncles, and the margins of the calyx and bracteas, downy. 
Berries spherical, red, often remaining throughout the winter. (Don’s Mill.) 
