. 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. Genus 2. HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 697 2. VITIS-IDAEA (Tourn.) Hill, Brit. 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 clusters. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla open-campanulate, 4-Iobed. Stamens 8; anthers upwardly prolonged into tubes; fila- men
. 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. Genus 2. HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 697 2. VITIS-IDAEA (Tourn.) Hill, Brit. 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 clusters. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla open-campanulate, 4-Iobed. 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. Fig. 3256. Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea L. Sp. PI. 351. 1753. Vitis-Idaea Vitis-Idaea Britton, }5ull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 179. 1903- Vaccinum Vitis-Idaea minus Lodd, Bot. Cab. pK 1023. 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"-S" in diameter. In' rocky places, Essex Co., Mass., coast of Maine, higher mountains of New England to Labrador and arctic America, 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. IMonth. Mag. 2: 266. i^ PiCRcoccus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil
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