. 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. 704 VACCINIACEAE. short-campanulate, 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-celled, surrounded by the 8-lobed disk; style short. Berry globose to oval, snow-white, many-seeded, rather meal
. 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. 704 VACCINIACEAE. short-campanulate, 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-celled, surrounded by the 8-lobed 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. J'accinium hispidiihim L. Sp. PI. 352. I753- C. scrpyllifolia Sahsb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 2: 94. 1814. Chiogenes hispidula T. & G.; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i: 450. 1843. Chiogenes japonica A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 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"-s" long; flowers few, soH- 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 5J00 ft. in New Hainpshire. 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, solitary or several, pe
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