5o8 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



91. Deerberry. Squaw Huckleberry 



Vacc'mium stamineum. — Color, whitish or greenish. leaves, 

 oval or ovate, pointed at apex, round or heart-shaped at base, 

 slightly turned back along the margins, on short, downy peti- 

 oles, whitish underneath. Time, May and June. 



Calyx, 5-toothed, clinging to the ovary and forming a berry 

 with a 5-rayed star at the top, as in gaylussacias. Corolla, 

 bell-shaped, open. Stamens, 8 or 10, protruding. Flowers, 

 single or in racemes, with ieafy bracts. Fruit, a large, green- 

 ish or yellowish, few-seeded, pear-shaped berry, scarcely 

 edible. 



This bush is about 2 feet high, found in dry woods from Maine 

 to Florida and westward. 



92. Farkleberry 



V. arbbreum is a Southern species, with oval or oblong, 

 entire, pointed, glossy leaves, evergreen in the far South. 

 Corolla, bell-shaped, 5-lobed, white. Berries, black, many- 

 seeded, mealy. 



A tall and smooth shrub, 6 to 25 feet high. Found in North 

 Carolina and Florida to Texas, in sandy soil. 



93. Blue Huckleberry 



V. virgatum is one of our commonest species, growing in 

 rocky woods, furnishing sweet, delicious fruit in August. The 

 berries are large, covered with blue bloom, lo-celled, flattened. 

 They grow in rather close clusters along the ends of the leaf- 

 less branches. The younger, reddish berries and maturer 

 black or blue grow together, and in such numbers that the 

 plant often appears to have more fruit than leaves. Flowers, 

 whitish, tinged with pink, open, bell-shaped. A plant 2 to 3 

 feet high, with pale green, broadly-elliptical leaves. Of edible 

 blueberries we have 5 species. 



