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these specimens on the next day, the 16th, and was thus enabled to 
make observations on them as if I had picked them on the spot. 
In the white-fruited form the berries were fully ripe and very sweet 
in comparison with those of the type, and the skin was very thin. 
They were translucent and the color was a creamy white, while in 
most cases the berries had a light rosy tinge on the side exposed to 
the sun. The calyx tips in many cases were of a light pinkish color, 
but in other respects the plant was typical. 
Messrs. E. L. Rand and J. H. Redfield have recorded white-berried 
plants of this species from Mount Desert, Maine (Flora of Mount 
Desert, Maine, 1894, p. 124). Mr. Rand tells me that he found the 
plant on Jordan Mountain, September 2, 1892, and that the fruit was 
of a dull white, tinged with red, especially at the apex, but not pure 
albino. He has sent me specimens. ‘These instances of white-fruited 
Vaccinium pennsylvanicum are the only ones that I am acquainted with 
from New England. ` Prof. Thos. C. Porter in 1894 (Bull. Torr. Club, 
XXI, pp. 121, 122) reported white-berried forms of this same species 
from Monroe County, Pennsylvania, and according to the precedent of 
Prof. Britton’s Gaylussacia resinosa, forma Zucocarpa (Bull. Torr. 
Club, XVII, 1890, p. 125) I will designate this form Vaccinium penn- ` 
sylvanicum, forma leucocarpum. Its continued occurrence for so 
many years in the same place entitles it to some formal recognition. 
In my list of New England Æricaceae (RHODORA 1, 1899, p. 94) this 
form should be entered with a cross for New Hampshire and Maine. 
I examined carefully the other specimens of Vaccinium pennsylvani- 
cum growing near forma /eucocarpa and I will record briefly the results. 
There are five forms:—1, The typical form, berries black with 
heavy bloom, taste normal; 2, berries black with slight bloom, taste 
as in no. r, rest of the plant typical; 3, berries black without bloom, 
taste as in no. r, but leaves hirsute below on the midrib, oblong lan- 
ceolate, shining on both sides, twigs warty as in the type; 4, berries 
dull red without bloom, taste insipid, plant otherwise typical; s, 
berries dark red with bloom, taste insipid, plant otherwise typical. 
In all these cases the fruit was perfectly ripe. These five forms I 
would regard as merely individual variations whose persistency has 
yet to be proved. (See also Flora of Mount Desert, Maine, 1894, 
p. 124.) 
I received from Mr. Arthur S. Pease of Andover, Massachusetts, on 
July 28 last, fresh specimens of Vaccinium corymbosum, var. atrococcum 
