Nat. Ord. Ericaceae. 
Vacdnium Oxycoccus. 
There’s not a flower but shews some touch 
In freckle, freck or stain, 
Of His unrivalled pencil. 
Hemans. 
f ERE is scarcely to be found a lovelier little plant than the 
common marsh Cranberry. It is of a trailing habit, creep¬ 
ing along the ground, rooting at every joint, and sending 
up little leafy upright stems, from which spring long slender 
thready pedicels, each terminated by a delicate peach-blossom tinted 
flower, nodding on the stalk, so as to throw the narrow pointed 
petals upward. The leaves are small, of a dark myrtle-green, revo¬ 
lute at the edges, whitish beneath, unequally distributed along the 
stem. The deep crimson smooth oval berries are collected by the 
squaws and sold at a high price in the fall of the year. 
There are extensive tracts of low, sandy, swampy flats in various 
portions of Canada, covered with a luxuriant growth of low Cran¬ 
berries. These spots are known as Cranberry Marshes; these places 
are generally overflowed during the spring; many interesting and 
rare plants are found in these marshes, with mosses and lichens 
