. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Oxycoccus erythrocarpus (Michx.) Pers. Southern Mountain Cranberry. Fig. 3277. Vac. erythrocarpum Michx. FI. Bor. Am. i: 227. 1803. Oxycoccus erythrocarpus Pers. Syn. i : 419. 1805. A divergently branched shrub, i°-6° high, the twigs pubescent or glabrous. Leaves thin, green both sides, paler beneath than above, reticulate-veined, ovate, ovate- lanceolate, o
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Oxycoccus erythrocarpus (Michx.) Pers. Southern Mountain Cranberry. Fig. 3277. Vac. erythrocarpum Michx. FI. Bor. Am. i: 227. 1803. Oxycoccus erythrocarpus Pers. Syn. i : 419. 1805. A divergently branched shrub, i°-6° high, the twigs pubescent or glabrous. Leaves thin, green both sides, paler beneath than above, reticulate-veined, ovate, ovate- lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, acuminate at the apex, rounded, subcordate or the terminal ones narrowed at the base, finely serrulate with bristle-pointed teeth, flat, l'-3' long, i'-i' wide; flowers solitary in the axils; peduncles pendulous, filiform, usually minutely 2-brac- teolate at the base and less than one-half as long as the leaves; corolla deeply 4-parted, red, about 5" broad; filaments villous, about one-fourth the length of the anthers; berry globose, dark red, 2"-3" in diameter. In woods, mountains of Virginia to Georgia. June-July. Fruit ripe July-Sept. Family 6. DIAPENSIACEAE Link. Handb. i: 595. 1829. DiAPENSiA Family. Low tufted shrubs, or perennial scapose herbs, with alternate or basal simple exstipulate leaves, and small white pink or purple gamopetalous or polypetalous perfect and regular flowers, solitary in the axils, or racemose at the summit of scapes. Calyx 5-parted, persistent; sepals imbricated in the bud. Corolla 5-lobed, 5-cleft, or 5-parted, deciduous. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla and alternate with its lobes, or connate, sometimes with as many alternating staminodia; anther-sacs longitudinally or transversely dehiscent; pollen-grains simple. Disk none. Ovary free from the calyx, superior, 3-celled; style mostly stout, persistent; stigma 3-lobed; ovules few or numerous in the cavities, ana- tropous or amphitropous. Capsule 3
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