184 OCTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



or blossom colour. In boggy grounds and low meadows, eom.- 

 mon. On the Woodlands, and the lower or east end of Powel- 

 ton; abundant. Perennial. July. 



188. OXYCOCCOS. Persoon. Syn. 1. p. 419. (Erica.) 



Calix superior, 4-toothed. Corolla 4-parted ; 

 segments sublinear ? re volute. Filaments 

 connivent. Anthers tubulose, semibilid. 

 Berry many- seeded. — Nutt. 



m&eroearpus. 1 . O. repent ; stems assurgent; leaves oblong, 

 very entire, (distantly subserrulate, Nutt.) flat- 

 tish, obtuse, glabrous, white underneath ; pedi- 

 cels elongated; segments of the corolla lanceo- 

 late. — Pers. and Pursh. 



Vaccinium macrocapon. — Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 355. 



V. oxycoccos, /3 oblongifolius, Mich. 



Icon. Wang. Amer. t. 30. f. 67. (Pursh.) Pluk. 



aim. t. 326. f. 6. 



Cranberry. 



It is the fruit of this plant which is known so well to every 

 person under the name of cranberries. Flowers white. Ber- 

 ries large, bright-shining scarlet or carmine-red. In swamps 

 of Jersey, very abundant ; hence the places where the plant 

 grows are called Cranberry-swamps. In a swamp already so 

 often mentioned, half a mile south-east of Kaighn's-point, Jer- 

 sey, very abundant. Perennial. May. 



189. ACER. Gen. pi. 1590. (Jlcera.) 



Flowers mostly polygamous. — Calix about 

 5-cleft. Petals o, or none. Samarce 2, 

 sometimes 3, alated, united at the base, by 

 abortion 1 -seeded. — Nutt. 



rubrum. j, A. leaves generally 5-lobed, acute, serrate, 

 glaucous underneath ; flowers in umbels, erect; 

 germs glabrous. — Sp, PL 

 A. Carolinianum, Walt? 



Icon. Mich. Arbr. forest, vol. 2. p. 210. 1. 14. 



