. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 698 VACCIXIACEAE. Vol. II. 4. BATODENDRON Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 261. 1843. Shrubs or small trees, with firm deciduous leaves, and white flowers in leafy-bracted racemes. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed. Stamens 10; anthers not exserted. Ovary inferior, 5-celled; style exserted. Berry black, globose, many-seeded. [Greek, black- berry tree.] ;
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 698 VACCIXIACEAE. Vol. II. 4. BATODENDRON Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 261. 1843. Shrubs or small trees, with firm deciduous leaves, and white flowers in leafy-bracted racemes. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed. Stamens 10; anthers not exserted. Ovary inferior, 5-celled; style exserted. Berry black, globose, many-seeded. [Greek, black- berry tree.] ;rica, or monotypic, with several races. Type species: I. Batodendron arboreum (Marsh.) Nutt. Farkleberry. Tree-Huckleberry. Fig. 3258. J'accinium arboreum Marsh. Arb. Amer. 157. 1785. Batodendron arboreum Nutt. loc. cit. 1843. A divergently branched shrub or small tree, reach- ing a maximiim height of about 30°, and trunk diameter of 9', the twigs glabrous or slightly pubes- cent. Leaves obovate or oval, obtuse or acute and mucronulate at the apex, narrowed, at the base, short-petioledi shining and bright green above, duller, and sometimes sparingly pubescent beneath, entire or glandular-denticulate, coriaceous, i'-2' long, i'-i' wide; flowers pendulous, slender-pedicelled; corolla white, campanulate, 5-lobed; bracts persistent; berry about 3" in diameter, inedible. In dry sandy soil. North Carolina to Kentucky, In- diana, Illinois, Missouri. Oklahoma. Florida and Texas. Wood hard, reddish brown, weight per cubic foot 47 lbs. Gooseberry. Sparkleberry. May-June. Batodendron andrachneforme Small, of Missouri, differs by its shorter-pedicelled smaller flowers, the corolla globular-campanulate. 5. VACCINIUM L. Sp. PI. 349. 1753. Branching shrubs (some species small trees) with alternate often coriaceous leaves, and small white, pink or red flowers, in terminal or lateral racemes or clusters, or rarely solitarj- in the axils. Calyx-tube globose, hemispheric or turbinate, not a
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