VINES AND SHRUBS 



— Family, Heath. Color, white, or sometimes tinged with pink. 

 Leaves, alternate, thick, evergreen, broader at apex, narrowing at 

 base, entire, small, smooth, dark green on both sides. Calyx, 

 5-parted. Corolla, urn-shape, with 5 short teeth, turning back- 

 ward. Stamens, 10; anthers with minute bristles near the top, 

 opening by terminal pores. Fruit, a red, berry-like drupe, with 



5 to 10 bony seeds. These berries make winter food for birds. 

 Flowers, in a raceme on the ends of trailing stems, with scaly 

 bracts underneath. May. 



A trailing shrub, 6 to 24 inches long, in dry, sandy, or rocky 

 soil, from New Jersey and Pennsylvania northward into the 

 arctic regions, westward to Missouri. (See illustration, p. 

 416.) 



Alpine Bearberry 



A, alpina.. — This is a tufted, dwarf species, with black, edible 

 fruit. Found in New England and farther north upon Alpine 

 summits. 



Deerberry. Squaw Huckleberry 



Vaccinium stamineum. — Family, Heath. Color, greenish white, 

 or with a purplish tinge. Leaves, oval or ovate, pointed at apex, 

 round or slightly obtuse at base, smooth, with short petioles, pale 

 green underneath, 1 to 4 inches long. Calyx, 5 -toothed, clinging 

 to the ovary and forming a berry with a 5 -rayed star at the 

 top, as in Gaylussacias. Corolla, bell-shape, open. Stamens, 8 

 or 10, with the style protruding. Flowers, on long pedicels, 

 drooping, numerous near the tops of branches, with many leaves, 

 forming racemes. Fruit, a large greenish or yellowish, few- 

 seeded, pear-shaped berry, scarcely edible. 



A shrub, 2 to 5 feet high, found in dry woods from Maine 

 to Florida and westward. 



Farkleberry 



V. arboreum, — A Southern species, becoming a small tree, from 



6 to 30 feet high, with oval or ovate, entire, pointed, glossy leaves, 

 evergreen in the far South. Corolla, bell - shape, white, the 

 style but not the stamens protruding. Flowers, drooping, on 

 slender pedicels, in leafy racemes. Berries, black, many-seeded, 

 mealy, not edible. May and June. 



In sandy soil, North Carolina to Kentucky. Called spar- 

 kleberry. 



Blueberry 

 V. vtrgatam. — Color, white or light pink. (See under Pink 

 Shrubs, p. 444.) 



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