. 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. 704 VACCINIACEAE. Vol. short-campaniilate, 4-cleft, its lobes rounded. Stamens 8, included; filaments short, nearly orbicular, roughish; anthers not awned nor prolonged into tubes, each sac 2-cuspidate at the apex and opening by a slit down to the middle. Ovary 4-cened, surrounded by the 8-Iobed disk; style short. Berry globose to oval, snow-white, many-se
. 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. 704 VACCINIACEAE. Vol. short-campaniilate, 4-cleft, its lobes rounded. Stamens 8, included; filaments short, nearly orbicular, roughish; anthers not awned nor prolonged into tubes, each sac 2-cuspidate at the apex and opening by a slit down to the middle. Ovary 4-cened, surrounded by the 8-Iobed disk; style short. Berry globose to oval, snow-white, many-seeded, rather mealy. [Greek, snow-born, in allusion to the berries.] A monotypic genus of North America and Japan. I. Chiogenes hispidula (L.) T. & G. Creeping Snowberry. Ivory-plums. Fig. 3274. Vacciniiim hispidulum L. Sp. PI. 352, 1753. C. serpyllifolia Salisb. Trans. Hort. Sec. 2 : 94. 1814. Chiogenes hispidnia T. & G. ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i : 450. 1843. Chiogenes japonica A. Gray, Syn. FI. 2; Part i, 26. 1878. Branches strigose-pubescent, very slender, 3-12' long. Leaves coriaceous, persistent, oval, ovate, or slightly obovate, short-petioled, acute at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, dark green, glabrous above, entire, sprinkled with appressed stiff brownish hairs beneath and on the revolute margins, 2"-5" long; flowers few, soli- tary, axillary, nodding, about 2" long, berry aromatic, usually minutely bristly, crowned by the 4 calyx-teeth, becoming almost wholly inferior, about 3" in diameter. In cold wet woods and bogs, Newfoundland to British Co- lumbia, south to North Carolina and Michigan. Ascends to 5200 ft. in New Hampshire. May-June. Fruit ripe Sept. Flavor of sweet birch. Mountain partridge-berry. Running birch. Moxie-berry. Maidenhair-berry. 7. OXYCOCCUS [Tourn.] Hill, British Herbal, 324. 1756. Glabrous, or slightly pubescent, trailing or erect shrubs, with alternate nearly sessile leaves, and axillary or terminal, solitar
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