BLUEBERRY FAMILY 87 



Menziesia Smith 1791 Menziesia 



(Named for Menzies, an English naturalist) 



PI. 15, fig. 1. 



Sepals 4, petals 4, greenish purple, united into an urn-shaped or globose 

 corolla, stamens 8, included, ovary mostly 4-celled, style slender, stigma 4- 

 lobed or 4-toothed, capsule subglobose or ovoid, 4-celled, 4-valved ; flowers 

 solitary ; leaves alternate, entire, deciduous ; shrubs. 

 Stems 2-6 ft. high ; leaves oblong to elliptic, some- 

 what rusty M. ferruginea 



Phyllodoce Salisbury 1806 Mountain Heath 



(The name of a sea-nymph) 



PI. 15, fig. 4. 



Sepals 5, petals 5, pink, blue or purple, sometimes yellow, united 

 into a bell-shaped corolla, constricted at the throat, stamens 10, included, 

 ovary 5-celled, style slender, included, stigma obscurely 5-lobed or globose, 

 capsule subglobose, or globose-oblong, 5-valved to about the middle ; flow- 

 ers long-stalked, nodding, in terminal umbels; leaves small, crowded, 

 linear, obtuse, leathery, evergreen; low branching shrubs. 



1. Corolla rose-red, 5-10 mm. long P. empetriformis 



2. Corolla yellowish, 3-5 mm. long P. glanduHflora 



VACCIN1ACEAE BLUEBERRY FAMILY 



Sepals 4-5, united, petals 4-5, united (rarely separate) into a globose, 

 urn-, bell-shaped, or tubular corolla, deciduous, stamens 8-10, upon 

 the ovary or at the base of the corolla, ovary inferior, 2-10-celled, style 

 slender, stigma simple, or minutely 4-5-lobed or 4-5-toothed. ovules solitary 

 or several in each cavity, fruit a berry or drupe, globose, cells 1 -several- 

 seeded, or the drupe containing several nutlets ; flowers clustered or solitary ; 

 leaves alternate simple ; shrubs or small trees. 



Vaccinium Linne 1753 Blueberry, Cranberry 



(The Latin name) 



PI. 15, fig. 7-9. 



Sepals 4-5. united into a globose, hemispheric, or top-shaped tube, not 

 cingled, united to the ovary, persistent, petals 4-5, white, pink or red, 

 united into an urn-shaped, bell-shaped or cylindric corolla, stamens 8-10, 

 ovary 4-5-celled, or 8-10-celled by false partitions, style straight, stigma 



