vaccine farm (vaksinfarm)

A place where vaccine virus is cultivated by the systematic inoculation of heifers. vaccinella (vak-si-nel'ä), n. Spurious vaccinia; an eruption which occasionally follows vaccination, but which is not true vaccinal eruption. IMG:content-1666.png:[blocks in formation] vacillation small, white, pink, or red, disposed in axillary or terminal racemes or axillary fascicles, rarely solitary, usually with bracts. Many of the species yield edible berries. (See whortleberry and blueberry , and compare huckleberry , cranberry, hurt2, and hurt berry.) The 3 well-known circumpolar species, V. Myrtillus, V. uliginosum, and V. Vi tis Idea, are the only species in Europe, the most im portant being V. Myrtillus, the whortleberry. V. uligi nosum, the blueberry or bog-bilberry, a smaller shrub with terete branches and usually four-parted flowers, is common in northern Britain and in Canada. V. Vitis Idæa , the cowberry or mountain-cranberry, with ever green leaves and prostrate stems, yields an acid red berry, edible when cooked, and sometimes substituted for the cranberry; it ranges in America from New England to Point Barrow, 71° 19' north. There are 10 or more species in Alaska, and 22 in the United States proper, cla ed in 4 distinct groups, of which the smaller are Vitis - Idæa, with ovate or globular corolla, and Batodendron, with open bell-shaped flowers, and berries little edible. (See farkle berry and squaw - huckleberry.) The blueberries, common species of the eastern United States and northward, forming the subgenus Cyano coccus, are replaced in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific States by the bilberries, species of Vaccinium proper, the typical section, which are themselves few and rare westward, but range more extensively in Canada. About 12 species occur in the northwestern United States, 3 of these and 10 others in the Southern States, 4 in the Rocky Mountain region, and 6 or more in Oregon or Nevada. Most species are low bushes; but V. arboreum, the farkleberry, sometimes reaches 25 feet in height, and V. corymbosum, the widely distributed blue huckleberry of the later summer market, is often 10 feet in height. The American cranberry, Oxy coccus macro carpus, was formerly, and by some authors is still, referred to this genus.