Vaccinium (vaksinium)

[NL. (Linnæus, 1737), IMG:content-1667.png:[blocks in formation] Squaw-huckleberry (Vaccinium stamineum). 1, flowering branch; 2, branch with fruit; 3, a flower. and from Oxycoccus, the cranberry genus, by usually having the anthers awned on the back. (See cut 7 under sta men, 4.) It includes about 110 species, inhabiting the temperate and frigid regions of the northern hemisphere and the mountains of the tropics. They are usually branching shrubs, rarely trees, a few epiphytic. leaves are generally small, coriaceous, and evergreen, but sometimes membranaceous and deciduous; the flowers Vachery (the ch with its French sound) is the name of several farms in different parts of England. Latham . ( Imp . Dict .)