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V, disoinorphum. «J£r. Am. Up. 231. Also] BigeL Boat. p. 151. 



V. fuscatum. Ait. Kew. 2. /;. 356. Also 1 Jf'illd. Sp. 2. p. 351. Pere. 



Sun.U p- *79. 3fttW, C</f<i.'. p. 39. Purah, Am. Up. 287. JVWf. 



Gen. Up* 203. Etf. 5*. Up. 499. Torr.Fl. l.p.416, j^'utd. Com/;. 



/;. 180. Lindl. Ency.p* 320. 



^foo? V. amqenura. mUd.$p.2.p.353. Ait. Kcw. 2. p. 35S. Pureh, 



I. c. JVutt. I. c. Lindl. Ency. p. 322. 



Corymbose Vaccixium. Vulgo — Swamp, or Tall Huckleberry. 



Stem 5 to 8 or 10 feet high, often stout, with irregular straggling branches; the 

 young Leafing branches pubescent, the flower bearing ones somewhat angular and 

 verrucose. Leaves 1 to 2 or 2 and a half inches long, and 3 fourths of an inch to 

 an inch and quarter wide, generally elliptic, sometimes obovate and obtuse, 

 always mucronate by a short obtuse projection of the midrib at apex, entire, pu- 

 bescent when young, particularly on the midrib and nerves, at length smoothish, 

 destitute of resinous dots, acid to the taste, on short pubescent petioles. Raceines 

 from lateral buds, unaccompanied with leaves; pedicels 1 fourth to 1 third of an 

 inch Long, with purplish bracts somewhat resembling bud-scales at base. Corolla 

 white, mostly tinged with purple, Larger than the preceding (1 third to half an inch 

 long), nearly cylindrical, contracted at the orifice ; lobes short, tooth-like. Stamens 

 included ; filaments pubescent, nearly as long as the anthers ; anthers naked and 

 free at base, the terminal tubes opening laterally and becoming flat linear acute 

 membranes. Style longer than the stamens, but scarcely as long as the corolla 

 (exserted, 7 W.), somewhat persistent ; stigma capitate, glandular. Berries rather 

 large (often 1 third of an inch in diameter), purplish black when mature, sub-acid. 

 Seeds rugose-punctate, or rough with reticulated ridges and depressions. 



llab. Shaded swamps, and rivulets: frequent* Fl. May. jFV. July. 



Obs. This is often a stout shrub ; but appears to be subject to some varieties,— 

 which probably have been described as distinct species, under the names here 

 quoted as synonyms. 



5. V. pexnsylvaxicum, Lam. Branches angular, yellowish green, 

 the flower-bearing ones elongated, mostly leafless; leaves subsessile, 

 hmce-oval, mucronate, often slightly serrulate, smooth and shining on 

 both surfaces ; racemes sessile, numerous, rather crowded, subfascicu- 

 late, bractcatc; corolla tubular, ovoid. Beck,'Bot. p. 224. Not of 

 Marsh. 



V. virgatum. IHlld. Sp. 2./;. 353. AiU Zew.%% 358. Muhl. CataL 

 % 40. H \~utt? Gen. 1. /;. 2G3. Ell? Sk. 1. p. 498. jBigeL Bost. p. 

 152. Lindl Ency. p. 322. Also, Pere. Sun. U p. 479. Eat. Man. p. 

 381. Not otPursh. 



V. tcnellum, Pursh f Am. Up. 288. Bart.Phil. Up. 197, Also,JW/. 

 /. c. Ell. Sk. Up. 500. Lindl. I. c. Not of JVilld. Ait. Pern. Muhl. 

 Big el. Tow. nor EaU 

 PsxxsrLVAXiAX Vaccixium. Vulgo — Sugar Huckleberry. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, much branched ; branches more or less augular, with a 

 green verrucose bark. Leaves an inch to an inch and half long, and half an inch 

 U> 3 quarters wide, elliptic, and mostly acute at each end, sometimes olnivalcand 

 obtuse, mucronate, entire, or obsolete ly serrulate, rather thin and membranaceous, 

 very smooth, with reticulated pellucid veins, nearly sessile. Racemes 4 to 8- 

 flowered, terminal and lateral; numerous, from buds without leaves, and often uu 



