. 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. Genus 2. HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 697 2. VITIS-IDAEA (Tourn.) Hill, BrU. Herb. 516. 1756. A low evergreen shrub, with creeping stems, alternate oval or obovate coriaceous leaves, and small white or pink nodding flowers, secund in small terminal clusters. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla open-campanulate, 4-lobed. Stamens 8; anthers upwardly prolonged into tubes; fila- ments pubesc
. 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. Genus 2. HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 697 2. VITIS-IDAEA (Tourn.) Hill, BrU. Herb. 516. 1756. A low evergreen shrub, with creeping stems, alternate oval or obovate coriaceous leaves, and small white or pink nodding flowers, secund in small terminal clusters. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla open-campanulate, 4-lobed. Stamens 8; anthers upwardly prolonged into tubes; fila- ments pubescent. Ovary 4-celled, inferior. Fruit a dark red acid many-seeded berry. [Ancient name] A monotypic genus of the north temperate and arctic zones. I. Vitis-Idaea Vitis-Idaea (L.) Britton. Mountain Cranberry. Wind- or Cow- berry. Vaccinlum Vilis-ldaca L. Vitis-Idaea Vitis-Idaea Bi 1903. Fig. 3256. ;p. PI. 351. 1-53- tton. Bull. N, Y. Bot. Card. 3: us Lodd. Bot. Cab. pi. 1023. Vaccinum Vitis-Idaea m 1825. Branches erect, terete, 3'-8' high, puberulent or glabrous. Leaves thick, persistent, crowded, green and somewhat shining above, paler and black-dotted beneath, quite glabrous, or minutely ciliate toward the base, obovate or oval, short-petioled, entire or sparingly serrulate, 3"-8" long, the margins revo- lute; flowers longer than their pedicels; bracts reddish, short-oblong, tardily deciduous; bractlets 2; berries dark red, acid, 4"-$" in diameter. In rocky places, Essex Co., Mass., coast of Maine, higher mountains of Xew England to' Labrador and arctic .\merica, west to Lake Superior, British Colum- bia and Alaska. Ascends to 5300 ft. in the Adirondacks. Also in northern Europe and Asia. Fruit used as a sub- stitute for cranberries. June-July. Flowering box. Ling- or wine-berry. Red whortleberry or bilberry. Rock-cranberry Cluster-berries. Fruit ripe 3. POLYCODIUM Raf. Am. Month. :\Iag. 2: 266. 1818. PicRcoccus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. IL 8:
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