20 ERICACEAE. Vaccinium. 



G. ursina, Torr. & Gray. Somewhat pubescent, 2 to 4 feet high : leaves green and 

 membranaceous, lanceolate-obovate or oblong, acuminate (2 to 4 inches long), loosely 

 veiny: bracts rather scaly, caducous: anthers with very short tips: fruit reddish, turning 

 black, insipid (Bear Huckleberry). — Gray, Chloris, 49, t. 10; Chapm. Fl. 258. Vac- 

 cinium ursinum, M. A. Curtis in Ainer. Jour. Sci. xliv. 82. — Moist woods, confined to the 

 mountains of the southern part of North Carolina and adjacent parts of South Carolina, 

 Curtis, Buckley, &c. 



-K- -i— Branches erect : flowers short-pedicelled in short sessile racemes : corolla ovate-conical and 

 5-angular, becoming campanulate or cylinclraceous, reddish, as are the scale-like caducous 

 ovate bracts. 



G. resinosa, Torr. & Gray. A foot to a yard high, rigid, glabrous or minutely pubes- 

 cent, when young very clammy : leaves yellowish-green, from oval to lanceolate-oblong, 

 commonly obtuse, mucronulate, of rather firm texture and paler beneath when mature : 

 racemes secund, drooping, 5-8-flowered : corolla 2 or 3 lines long : anthers with tubular 

 tips : fruit black, rarely varying to white, without bloom, pleasant (the common Huckle- 

 berry or Black Huckleberry of the market). — Vaccinium resinosum, Ait. Kew. 1. c. ; 

 Michx. Fl. i. 232 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1288. V. parviflorum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 125. Andromeda 

 baccata, "Wang. Amer. Ill, t. 30, fig. 69. Decamerium resinosum, Nutt. 1. c. — Rocky wood- 

 lands and swamps, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan and south to Upper Georgia. The 

 only species in the northern Mississippi States, where it is rare. 



2. VACCINIUM, L. Blueberry, Bilberry, or sometimes Huckle- 

 berry, and Cranberry. (Classical Latin name.) — Shrubs or suffruticose plants 

 (chiefly of the northern hemisphere), with either deciduous or evergreen leaves ; 

 the flowers white or reddish, either solitary in the axils, or in racemes or fascicles, 

 mostly nodding. Corolla small, of thinnish texture, and various in form. Sta- 

 mens 8 or more, commonly 10 : filaments usually hairy or ciliate : anthers awned 

 on the back or awnless, opening by a terminal hole or slit of the tubular apex of 

 each cell. Flowers in spring: berries ripe in summer or autumn, sweetish or 

 sometimes acid, mostly edible. — Vaccinium & Oxycoccus, Pers. ; Benth. & Hook, 

 Gen. ii. 573, 575. The following are excluded, viz. : — 



V. mucronatum, L., which was founded, not on " one of the Mespilus or Pyrus tribe," as 

 Smith opined, but on a fruiting specimen of Nemopanthes Canadensis. 



V. album, L., founded on a specimen of Lonicera ciliala, from Kalm, who sent it as a Vac- 

 cinium with white berries. 



V. ligustrinum, L., founded on a specimen of Andromeda panicidala, also from Kalm. 



V. glabrum, Wats. Dendr. Brit. t. 125, d., probably Gaijlussacia resinosa. 



V. obtusum, Pursh, from Oregon, collected by Menzies, probably Gaultheria Myrsinites. 



V. humifusum, Graham in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 1831, 8, probably also Gaultheria Myrsinites. 



§1. Batodendron, Gray. Corolla open-campanulate, 5-lobed : anthers 

 tipped with long and slender tubes, and 2-awned on the back : ovary and (hardly 

 edible or mawkish) berry spuriously 10-celled (ripening in autumn) : leaves decidu- 

 ous, but of rather firm texture : flowers axillary and solitary or in leafy-bracted 

 racemes, slencler-pedicelled : bractlets minute or none. — Chloris, 1. c. 52. 



# Flower articulated with its pedicel: anthers included: berrv black, manv-seeded. (Batode?idron, 

 Nutt. Tvans. Am. Phil. Soc, sev. 2, viii. 261.) 

 V. arboreum, Marshall. (Farkle- or Sparkle-berry.) Shrub 6 to 25 feet high, 

 with spreading branches, glabrous or somewhat pubescent : leaves thinnish-coriaceous, very 

 smooth and shining above, reticulate-veiny, obscurely glandular-denticulate or entire, from 

 obovate or round-oval to oblong : flowers profuse, axillary along the branches and leafy- 

 racemose : corolla white, moderately 5-lobed : awns of anthers more than half the length 

 of the tubular tips : berry globose, small, with a dry rather astringent pulp. — Arbust. 157 ; 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1885. V. diffasum, Ait. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1607. V. mucronatum, Walt., not L. 



