Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 3 November, Igo1 No. 35 
ALBINO FRUIT OF VACCINIUMS IN NEW ENGLAND. 
WALTER DEANE. 
Miss HELEN F. Ayres of Medford, Massachusetts, has sent me 
specimens of a white-berried blueberry, Vaccinium pennsylvanicum, 
Lam., collected by her in the town of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, 
and she has also kindly furnished me with such full information in 
regard to the plant and its surroundings that I am enabled to make 
the following note. The bushes grow in a pasture and cover a space 
of about one square rod. ‘The pasture in this locality is on a side 
hill and the soil is not rocky but rather dry. Some of the bushes are 
under the shade of the neighboring trees, while others are exposed 
to the sun. The plants are from six to eight inches tall and have 
been growing on this spot year after year for a long time, one bush 
having been found here about twenty years ago. ‘There are now 
about twenty bushes in all and they bear only white berries, no other 
bushes in the town bearing berries of this color. A number of 
bushes of the typical Vaccinium pennsylvanicum are growing among 
the white-berried forms, and in the neighborhood are found various 
kinds of blueberries, Vaccinium corymbosum and its variety atrococcum, 
V. pennsylvanicum, which comprises nine-tenths of the berries in the 
pasture, and its variety zzgruz, besides the common huckleberry, 
Gaylussacia resinosa, a plant not common in Fitzwilliam. The 
pasture supports a luxuriant growth of thistles, evening primroses, 
chokeberries and other plants which crowd the ground. 
Miss Ayres sent me fresh specimens of the white-berried blueberry 
and other interesting forms growing near. ‘They were gathered by 
her on August 15 last, on which day the white berries were falling 
rapidly, though the others still remained on the bushes. I received 
