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OCTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
niacrocarpus. 
fubnftn. 
or blossom colour. In bog’g'y grounds and low meadows, eomr 
inon. On the Woodlands, and the lower or east endof Powel- 
ton; abundant. Perennial. July. 
188. OXYCOCCOS. Persoon. Syn. 1, p. 419. {Ericce.) 
Calix superior^ 4- toothed. Corolla 4-parted ; 
segments sublinear^ revolute. Filaments 
connivent. Anthers tubulose^ semibifid. 
Berry many-seeded. — JSTntt. 
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. PL2. p. 355. 
V. oxycoccos, /S oblongifolius, Mich. 
Icon. Wang. Amer. t. SO. 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. {Acera.) 
Flowers mostly polygamous .' — Calix about 
5 -cleft. Petals 5, or none. Samar ce S, 
sometimes 3, alated, united at the base, by 
abortion 1 -seeded. — J\Tutt. 
1. 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, 
