410 VACCINIACE^E 



VACCINIUM 



and setaieous-subulate lobea : corolla 6-8 lines long, its lanceolate acute 

 lobes longer than the tube : capsule 3-4 lines long, strongly angled. Com- 

 mon in coniferous woods, Vancouver Island to California. 



C. prenanthoides Durand Jour. Acad Philad. n. ser. ii, 93 Glabr- 

 ous or roughish-puberulent: stem erect, 1-3 feet high: leaves numerous, 

 6-18 lines long, from ovate-oMong to lanceolate, the cauline mainly sessile: 

 flowers racemose, scattered or clustered, generally numerous, bright blue, 

 on short pedicels: corolla slender-cylindrical in bud, twice the length of 

 the slender calyx-lobes, almost 5-parted, its lobes narrowly lanceolate, 2-4 

 times as long as the tube : capsule thin-walled and with broad and retuse 

 base. Coniferous woods and open places, southern Oregon to California. 



Order LIV, VACCINIACE^ Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 757. 



Shrubs or small trees, with alternate simple leaves, and small 

 pink or white perfect flowers in clusters, or solitary. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to the ovary, the limb 4-5-lobed or 4-5-cleft. Co- 

 rolla gamopetalous, 4-5-lobed, or rarely divided into separate 

 petals, deciduous. Stamens twice as many as the lobes of the 

 corolla, epigynous, or inserted on the base of the corolla; fila- 

 ments usually flattened, anthers dorsally attached, 2-celled, 

 the connective entire or 2-awned. Ovary inferior, 2-10-celled, 

 with placentae in the axis, with one to several anatropous 

 ovules in each cell, crowned by the epigynous disk. Style fil- 

 iform : stigma simple, or minutely 4-5-lobed. Fruit a berry or 

 drupe in our genera. Seeds compressed. Embryo small, in 

 fleshy albumen. 



1 Vaccinium Corolla urceolate, subglobose, cylindric, or campanulate. 



2 Oxycoccus Corolla deeply 4-cleft or 4-divided, the lobes reflexed. 



1 VACCINIUM L. Sp. 349. 



Branching shrubs or small trees with alternate often coriace- 

 ous leaves and small white pink or red flowers. Calyx-tube glo- 

 bose, hemispheric or turbinate, not angled, adnate to the ovary, 

 the limb 4-5-toothed or lobed, persistent. Corolla urn-shaped, 

 campanulate, cylindric, or subglobose, its limb 4-5-toothed or 

 lobed. Stamens as many or twice as many as lobes of the corolla 

 Anthers awned or awnless, upwardly prolonged into tubes, open- 

 ing by a terminal hole or slit of the tubular apex of each cell. 

 Ovary 4-5-celled, or 8-10 celled b}^ false partitions ; ovules several 

 or numerous in each cell. 



§ 1 Eu vaccinium Gray. Leaves deciduous. Flowers on 

 drooping pedicels, solitary or 2-4 together, developing with or 

 soon after the leaves. Corolla from ovate to globular, and more 

 or less urn-shaped, 4-5-toothed. Filaments glabrous : anthers 

 2-awned on the back, included. Ovary and berry 4-5-celled, 

 with no false partitions. 



* Leaves quite entire and usually almost sessile: flowers 1-4 in a 

 fascicle from a distinct scaly bud, more commonly 4-merous and 8-and- 

 rous : limb of the calyx deeply 4-5-parted. 



