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1901] Deane,—Albino Fruits of Vacciniums 265 
(a variety of our high bush blueberry) with white berries collected 
by him in Andover on July 27. The berries were translucent and of 
a creamy white color, the skin was very thin, but the taste, unlike 
that of the white-berried form described above, was insipid. Mr. 
Pease, in the letters of information which he kindly wrote me, says, 
“There is only one bush, growing on a hillside among bushes of the 
type and var. atrococcum. The bush is about five or six feet high and 
does not seem to differ at all from the bushes about it..... The in- 
sipid taste in the berries which you remarked upon I myself noticed, 
as did all the other persons who tasted the berries that I gathered— 
I find that berries of this sort have been gathered in this locality for 
at least eight or ten years and perhaps longer." The persistency of 
this white-fruited blueberry seems to entitle it to recognition as Vac- 
cinium corymbosum, var. atrococcum, forma leucococcum, It should be 
entered on my list with a cross for Massachusetts. All the specimens 
described above by me from fresh material are in my herbarium. 
Mr. William Brewster tells me that there is a high bush blueberry, 
Vaccinium corymbosum, L., bearing white berries on his farm in Con- 
cord, Massachusetts. Local tradition affirms that this bush has 
fruited many years. 
Mr. E. L. Rand has kindly shown me specimens of a white-fruited 
Canada blueberry, Vaccinium canadense, Kalm., collected by Miss 
Harriet A. Hill of Belmont, Massachusetts, early in September, 1901, 
in Gouldsboro, Maine. Captain George Allen of Gouldsboro told 
Miss Hill of the blueberries and conducted her to the locality. I will 
quote the following from Miss Hill’s letter to Mr. Rand describing 
the situation : — 
“We went up a slight rise of land to a small clearing where there 
was a thick growth of the Canada blueberry, mountain cranberry, 
brakes, golden-rod, etc. All around was a scattering growth of 
spruces, canoe birches, yellow birches and balsam firs. In the mid- 
dle of the clearing on the westerly slope of the ridge we found a patch 
about ten feet square of the white Canada blueberry, surrounded on 
all sides by the common variety. So far as we could see there was no 
difference in the soil or the environment of the two varieties. They 
grew side by side yet each perfectly distinct. Capt. Allen told us 
that they had been there ever since he could remember.” Mr. Rand 
has seen fresh fruit from this locality and he describes the color of 
the ripe berries as a dead waxy white, that of the unripe fruit being a 
