194 Rhodora. [Jurv 
list. Mr. Eaton has already recorded this species from a bog in Not- 
tingham, New Hampshire, in Ruopora, II, p. 168. 
Gaylussacia dumosa, var. hirtella, Gray. Mr. M. L. Fernald has 
kindly called my attention to the fact that the specimens on which I 
based my Massachusetts and Rhode Island records of this variety, 
so named by Wm. Boott and S. T. Olney on the sheets containing 
the specimens in the Gray Herbarium, have not the glandular-hirsute 
or hispid character that properly belongs to this form and is exhibited 
in plants from further south. This name accordingly should be 
dropped from my list. 
Gaylussacia resinosa, var. glaucocarpa, Robinson. I have visited 
several times the type locality of this plant in Jaffrey, New Hamp- 
shire, and was pleased to see the article by Dr. B. L. Robinson in 
Ruopora, II, pp. 81-83, in which he gives varietal distinction to this 
blue-fruited form of our common huckleberry. In RHoponma Il, 
p. 168, Mr. A. A. Eaton states that g/aucocarpa “is more abundant 
in the coast towns of Rockingham county, New Hampshire, than the 
type; the fruit is larger, juicier and more generally esteemed.” This 
shows that the plant is well recognized by the country people at 
large. Dr. C. B. Graves has kindly sent me specimens of this variety 
collected by him in Waterford and Groton, Connecticut, in August, 
1898. In reply to my inquiries in regard to the relative size of the 
fruit, abundance and general distribution of the plant, Dr. Graves 
"writes under date of March 3, 1901, * With regard to the berries of 
glaucocarpa, Y should say that on the whole and as a rule when fully 
grown they were quite as large as those of the species. I have seen 
‘some very large berries.... I should call the plants abundant at 
the points where I have noticed them. As a rule they grow in little 
irregular patches of eight or ten square yards, with little or no admix- 
ture of the species, which, however, usually grows near by. Much 
more rarely in my experience they grow mingled together. For table 
uses they seem to me just as good as G. resinosa and I could detect 
no difference either in flavor or in relative seediness.” I have also 
:seen in the Gray Herbarium and that of Mr. J. H. Sears of Salem, 
-specimens of g/aucocarpa from Topsfield, Massachusetts, collected in 
June and July, 1899, by Mr. Sears and referred to by Dr. Robinson 
together with Dr. Graves' plants, in his paper on the subject. Iam 
glad to report this variety from Maine also. Mr. E. L. Rand has 
shown me specimens in his herbarium from the Island of Mt. Desert, 
