408 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
covered with a pearly epidermis, which gives it an ashy color. 
The leaves are on very short petioles, oblong, elliptic, or obo- 
vate, obtuse, with a callous, whitish point, revolute on the mar- 
gin, lighter beneath. The flowers hang dangling on slender 
strings from one to three inches long, with an ovate bract at 
base, and two minute bracts on opposite sides, about the middle. 
The calyx-segments are appressed and acute; the corolla a 
broad bell, like that of the lily of the valley, with five, short, 
angular segments, completely reflexed. ‘The style is as long 
as the corolla; the stamens considerably shorter. 
The fruit is large, bluish, rather acid, ripening late. It is 
rarely found in abundance; where it is procured in sufficient 
quantities, as in some parts of Worcester County, it is used for 
puddings. This species comes to greater perfection in a warmer 
chmate. In Pennsylvania, its berries are preferred to those of 
any other whortleberry. 
It is found in moist situations, by the side of lakes and on 
the edges of woods. 
Sp. 3. Tue Buss Waortieserry. V. dumosum. Andrews. 
A shrub one or two feet high, distinguished for its shining 
leaves, which are sessile, broad-lanceolate or obovate, wedge- 
shaped, acute, entire, mucronate or ending in a short, abrupt, 
awl-like point, conspicuously dotted above with resinous dots, 
and set, as are the recent shoots, with short, numerous, 
glutinous hairs, which, on the margin, give it a ciliate ap- 
pearance. ‘Ihe stem and older branches are covered with an 
ash-colored, roughish bark; the recent branches are brownish, 
downy and somewhat viscid with a few glandular hairs. Ra- 
cemes of five flowers, leafy, covered with the same glutinous 
hairs. Hach pedicel proceeds from the axil of an oval leaflet, 
and is furnished, about its middle, with one to three bractiole. 
The segments of the glandular calyx are rather large, somewhat 
acute, and fringed. Corolla large, wax-white, often with a tinge 
of pink, rounded or funnel-shaped, remarkable for its five pro- 
minent, keel-like angles, with the segments obtuse and recurved. 
Anthers very long, brown, cleft nearly to their base into two 
needle-like threads, resting on the top of a short, fleshy, white 
