660 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Vaccinium vacillans Kalm; ‘Torr. 'l.N.Y. 1:444. 1843. Low BLUEBERRY, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 313.) Chap. FL. Suppl. 633; ed. 3, 285.) Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, 
pt. 1:22. 
varolinian area. Ontario, southern New England, west to Michigan to Ohio Val- 
ley, Missouri, and along the mountains to North Carolina, 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Woodlands, open copses and in rocky ors dy soil. 
Cullinan County, 800 teet altitude. Lee County, Auburn (Laker §° Karle), ‘lowers 
greenish yellow, calyx tipped with red. April; fruit ripe in August,’ 6 to 8 
inches high. Not rare. 
Economic uses: The fruit is edible. 
Type locality: ‘Dry hills and open woods, common. Middle States.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vaccinium corymbosum L. Sp. Pl. 1:350. 1753. COMMON BLUEBERRY. 
Vaccinium disomorphum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:231. 1803. 
EL. Sk. 1:498. Gray, Man, ed. 6, 318. Chap. F1. 260, in part. Gray, Syn. F1.N. A, 
2, pt. 1:22, 
Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario; New Eng- 
land west to Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas; south along the mountains to 
Georgia, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Copses and open woods. Clay County, Che-aw-ha 
Mountain, near the watertall and Pulpit Rock, 2,200 feet. Cullman County, 850 feet. 
Winston County, 1,200 feet. Lee County, Auburn (Baker J: Karle). Flowers in April; 
fruit matures in September, not seen. Local and infrequent. 
Keconomic uses: The fruit is the common blueberry, 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in America septentrionali, Kalm.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
Vaccinium corymbosum amoenum (Ait.) Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 2, pt. 1:23. 1878. 
Vaccinium amoenum Ait. Hort. Kew, 2:12. 1789. 
Near to type; a lower shrub; flowers in dense clusters on naked branches, reddish, 
appearing with the leaves; leaves while young pubescent, lanceolate, later broadly 
ovate to ovate-lanceolate serrate-ciliate, the teeth appressed, pubescent on the mid- 
rib, glabrous, shining, green on both sides. 
Gray, Man, ed. 6, 318. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Along the coast from New Jersey to Florida, 
ALABAMA: Lower Dine region. Coast plain, Shaded banks in damp soil. Mobile 
County, Mount Vernon, near David's Lake; Three-mile Creek. Flowers April 10; 
fruit matures in June. Not common. 
Type locality: ‘ Native of North America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vaccinium fuscatum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2:11. 1789. Fuscous BLUEBERRY. 
Vaccinium corymbosum fuscatum Gray, Syn. F1.N. A. 2, pt.1:23. 1878. 
Ell. Sk.1:499. Gray, 1. e. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast Plain. Shaded dry sandy banks of 
streams and near swamps. Autauga County, Prattville. Baldwin County, live oak 
hammock near Zundels. Flowers in March; fruit not seen. 
Shrub, with straggling branches, 2 to 4 feet high, the branches fuscous-pubescent; 
leaves distichous, with a fuscous pubescence beneath. Identical with the species 
in the Gray Herbarium marked ‘* Mobile, 1839.” 
Type locality: ‘‘ Native of North America,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vaccinium pallidum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2:10. 1789, MOUNTAIN BLUEBERRY. 
Vaccinium corymbosum pallidum Gray, Man. ed. 5, 292, 1867. 
MV. constablaet Gray, Am, Journ, Sci. 13:42. 1841, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,313. Chap. FI. 260.) Gray, Syn. FIN. A. 2, pt. 1: 23. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. West Virginia to North Carolina, along the 
higher ranges of the Alleghenies. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dekalb County, summit of Lookout Mountain, 2,000 
feet. Cullman County, highest ridges 1,000 teet. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Native of North America,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
