8 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



these insects seem to be pretenaturally suspicious. Theirs, 

 however, is a wisdom that comes from experience. Examina- 

 tion of a specimen will show wings that are battered and faded 

 from battling with the elements of a season past, and destined 

 to wave but a short time longer in the one to come. If these 

 aged individuals can remember, what curious experiences they 

 must be able to recall, as they doze away the wintry days, 

 safe hidden beneath a strip of loose bark on some forest tree. 



After the first of March, each day sees the signs of spring 

 become more pronounced. The catkins of birch, alder and 

 hazel begin to lengthen, the buds of maple and elm swell al- 

 most to bursting, and the twigs of the willow, dog-wood and 

 cat-brier fairly glow with color. Their veins are full, and 

 they but wait the encouragement of a few warm days to 

 border the streams and thickets with tender green. 



A NEW BLUEBERRY FROM NEW YORK 



BY STEWART H. BURNHAM. 



THE species of blueberry, here described, appears to be a 

 well-marked one growing with Vaccinium Pennsylvani- 

 rn//rLam. and V. vacillans Kalm. It is, however, more closely 

 related to the latter species, but may be separated, not only by 

 its greener leaves, which are scarcely glaucous, but also by its 

 larger fruit almost destitute of bloom. The flowering and 

 fruiting season is one or two weeks earlier than that of V. 

 vacillans. 



Vaccinium Dobbini, n. sp. An erect shrub, 2^-4 dm. 

 high, with reddish brown or rarely greenish bark, branches 

 greenish, roughened with numerous minute warts, twigs soft 

 pubescent in lines with white hairs. Leaves mostly elliptical, 

 2y^-4: cm. long, 1^-2^ cm. wide, mucronate, tapering at 

 the base, serrulate with white-tipped teeth, smooth above, 

 green and prominently reticulate-veined beneath and slightly 



