210 ERICACE^. 



Order 61. ERICACEJE.— Heath family. 



Shrubs, sometimes herbs, with simple alternate or opposite, leaves, often evergreen, 

 Ufitltout stipules, and regular flowers or nearly so, Vie stamens as many or twice as 

 mvny as the 4 to b-lobed corolla, and inserted with it. Amthees 2-celled, mostly ap- 

 pendaged, opening by chinks or pores. Ovary -L to 10-cclled ; sttlb 1. tfituiT cap- 

 sular, baccate, or drupaceous. 



Sub-order 1. VAOCINEiE. Whortleberry Family. 



Ovary adherent to the tube of the calyx, becoming a ber- 

 ry or drupe-like fruit, crowned with the calyx-teeth. Shrubs 

 with scattered leaves. 



1. VACCINIUM, Linn. Whortleberry. 



Calyx adherent to the ovary, 4 to 5-toothcd. Corolla 

 ovoid, bell-shaped, urn-shaped or cylindrical, 4 to 5-clcft. 

 Stamens 8 to 10. Style erect, longer than the stamens. 

 Berry globose, 4 to 5-(rarely 10)-celled; cells many-seeded. — 

 Shrubs or wilder '-shrubs, w ith scattered, leaves, solitary or race- 

 mose, white or reddish flowers } and succulent many-seeded 

 berries. 



Sec. 1. G A ylussacia, Torr. d- Gray. Flowers in laier&l bracted raccTrus. CorcEa 

 i-cieft ; stamens 10. 



* Leaves thie'e and evergreen, not resinous dotted. 



1. V. BRACHYCERUM, Michx. Box-leaved Huckleberry. 



Low, very smooth; leaves oval, finely crenat3-toothcd; racemes short and nearly 

 ■e?sile; pvliccls very short; corolla cylindrical-bell-shaped. (Gaylussacia brachy. 

 cera, Torr & Gr.) 



Hillsides, rare. May— June, I found this species in the summer of 1S50 very 

 abundant on a small hill near Bloomfield, Perry County. Stem 8 to 12inches bigh, 

 with leaves resembling those of the Bos. 



* * Leaves deciduous, entire; wlwle plant more or less resinous dotted. 



2. V.. frondosum, Willd. Blue-tangle. High Blue- 

 berry. 



Smooth; branches slender «nd divergent; leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, pale, 

 glaucous beneath ; racemes slender, loose, with oblong or linear bracts ; corolla 

 gtobular-kell-shaped. (Gaylussacia frondosa, Torr. A Gr.) 



Low sandy woods, common. May— June Shrub 3 to 6 feet bigh, with smooth 

 deader brauches and grayish bark. Leaves twice as longaji wide. Jtacemes lateral, 

 few-flowered. Flowers small, nearly globose, reddish-white. Berries largo, glo- 

 bose, blue, covered with a glaucous bloom when mature, sweet. 



3. V. RESINOSUM, Ait. Black Huckleberry or Whor- 

 tleberry. 



Much branched, rigid, slightly pubescent when young; leave* petiolate, oral, 

 •WoDg-fTftte or oblong, obtu*e, Tory entire, sprinkled with »hining w#inon*.doW;. 



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