WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Squaw Huckleberry (Vacctnium stamineum). Heath 
family. April to June. 
A branching shrub bearing loose clusters; anthers prominent. 
Leaves egg-shaped or oval. Woods. To the same family belongs 
Stagger-bush {Lyonia mariana) (May to July), with close 
clusters. Leaves oblong or oval. Low ground. Also Mountain 
Cranberry ( V. Vitis-Idcza, var. minus) (June, July), an ever- 
green creeper with upright branches. The (terminal) flowers 
have a four-toothed calyx, four-lobed corolla. Leaves small, 
thick, rounded, dotted beneath, short-stemmed. Probably the 
"Wine-berry" of the Norsemen (Fernald). Rocky ground. Also 
Privet Andromeda ( Lyonia ligustrina) (May to July) , a shrub 
bearing numerous globular flowers in a cluster; stamens hairy. 
Leaves oval or inversely egg-shaped ; abruptly pointed. Swamps. 
Named for John Lyon. 
PRIVET ANDROMEDA 
{Lyonia ligusirtnd) 
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