. 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 . Leave Erect mountaii berry globose, or oblong, obtuse; berry ovoid or oblong, shrub ; leaves deciduous, serrulate ; flow 0. Oxycoccos. O. macrocarpiis. O. erythrocarpu I. Oxycoccus Oxycoccos (L.) MacAI. Small or European Cranberry. Fig. 3275. Vaccinium Oxycoccos L. Sp. PI. 351. 1753. V. Oxycoccus intermedium A. Gray. Syn. Fl. ed 2, 2': 396. 1886. Oxycoccus palustris Pers. Sy


. 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 . Leave Erect mountaii berry globose, or oblong, obtuse; berry ovoid or oblong, shrub ; leaves deciduous, serrulate ; flow 0. Oxycoccos. O. macrocarpiis. O. erythrocarpu I. Oxycoccus Oxycoccos (L.) MacAI. Small or European Cranberry. Fig. 3275. Vaccinium Oxycoccos L. Sp. PI. 351. 1753. V. Oxycoccus intermedium A. Gray. Syn. Fl. ed 2, 2': 396. 1886. Oxycoccus palustris Pers. Syn. i: 419. 1805. O. Oxycoccus MacM. BuU. Torr. Club 19: 15. 1892. Stems very slender, creeping, rooting at the nodes, _6'-i8' long. Branches ascending or erect, i'-6' high; leaves thick, evergreen, ovate, entire, acutish at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, dark green above, white beneath, 2"-8" long, i"-3i" wide, the margins more or less revolute; flowers 1-6, mostly umbellate, rarely raceinose, from terminal scaly buds, nodding, on erect fili- form pedicels, 2-bracteolate at or below the middle; corolla pink, about 4" broad, divided nearly to the base; filaments puberulent, about half the length of the anthers; berry globose, 3"-S" in diameter, often spotted when young. In cold bogs, Newfoundland to Alaska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Michigan and British Columbia. Also in Europe and Asia. May-July. Fruit ripe Bog- or marsh-wort. Moss-, bog-, fen- or moor-berry. Marsh-berry. Crone, cran-. cram- or crane-berry, millions [melons]. Sow- or sour-berry. Swamp red-berry.


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