Ord. 46. ERICACEAE. 



1. VACCINIUM, Linn. 

 1. Vaccinium ovatum, Pursh. 



Hab. Washington Territory, in woods around Puget Sound and 

 Gray's Harbor ; also on rocks near San Francisco. — A beautiful ever- 

 green shrub, which attains its greatest perfection to the north. At 

 Puget Sound it is sometimes twelve feet high, while in California 

 it is usually only one or two feet. Douglas states that the fruit is 

 black, and pleasant to the taste; while Nuttall remarks that it is 

 dry and scarcely edible. 



2. Vaccinium pakvifolium, Smith. 



Hab. Washington Territory ; very common in woods about Puget 

 Sound ; also in the southern part of British Columbia. — A shrub 6 

 to 12 feet high, with slender, spreading, much divided, and very 

 angular branches. The leaves are thin, and vary from half an inch 

 to more than an inch in length. The berries are red, and apparently 

 so dry as to be scarcely edible; the cells 15-20-seeded. 



3. Yaccinium membranaceum, Dough 



V. foliis ovato-oblongis utrinque acutiusculis membranaceis serrulatis 

 glabris, adultis nitidis ; floribus solitariis modice pedicillatis ; corollis 

 globoso-ovatis. 



Vaccinium membranaceum, Dougl. ex Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2, p. 32. 

 V. myrtilloides, Hook. 1. c. (vars.) excl. syn. Michx. 



Hab. Washington Territory, Nisqually, and eastward to the Cas- 

 cade Mountains. — This species is very distinct from V. myrtilloides 



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