XX]. 1. HIGH BUSH WHORTLEBERRY. 401 
filament. Style as longascorolla. Berries large, black, crowned 
with the persistent calyx. 
Found at Manchester, rare. Flowering in July. 
Sp. 4. Tse Deer Berry. V. stamineum. LL. 
A bush about two feet high, with numerous, slender, tapering, 
somewhat downy, green branches, which afterwards turn brown. 
The leaves are oval or elliptic, often somewhat heart-shaped at 
base, acute at the end, slightly revolute on the margin, conspic- 
uously veined, glaucous and somewhat downy beneath, on very 
short, downy footstalks. The largest are two inches long and 
one broad. ‘The flowers are conspicuous for their very long, 
straight anthers, projecting far beyond the short, spreading, 
white corolla, with pointed lobes: at the base of each flower- 
stem is an ovate leaf, much smaller than the other leaves. 
Berries greenish, afterwards white, pear-shaped. Found at 
Southampton lead mine (Oakes), and elsewhere, in the western 
part of the State. Flowers in May and June, and ripens its 
scarcely eatable fruit in September. 
Sp. 5. Tse Hicn Bush Wuortieserry. Swamp WuortTle- 
BERRY. V. corymbosum. L. 
A shrub from four to eight or nine feet high, forming large, 
handsome clumps in swamps and moist woods, and maturing its 
fruit later than the upland species. It is crowded with irregu- 
lar, straggling branches, which are downy and somewhat angu- 
lar when young. The bark on the branches and stem is of a 
bronze or copper color, bleached, where exposed to much light, 
toa gray. It gradually becomes rough, and cleaves off. On the 
smaller, it is yellowish green, clouded with dark purple, and 
closely scattered with whitish dots. The leaves, at the time of 
flowering, are narrow, lanceolate, egg-shaped or inversely egg- 
shaped, or elliptic, and often very downy beneath, and pale green 
or purplish. They afterwards become much broader, without 
increasing in length; smooth on both surfaces, but somewhat 
downy along the mid-rib and often on the primary veins, of a soft 
green, paler beneath. ‘The short, flower-bearing branches, the 
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