Gaylussacia ERICACEAE Vaccinium 



Canby labels, made search for it in the indicated area. Here it was 

 found within a few minutes, by H. M, Canby, and material was 

 collected for planting elsewhere and for preservation. 



When the writer first visited this locality, in 1926, under guid- 

 ance of Dr. Frank Morton Jones, the stand measured perhaps 10 by 

 30 feet, and was rather thinly populated. Later, many pines were 

 cut down, and the Box Huckleberry gradually disappeared, so that 

 on a visit to the spot about 1939 not a trace of it could be found. 



A much more extensive station was discovered in July 1932 by 

 W. S. Taher, Delaware state forester, on the wooded south bank of 

 Broad Creek, 1 mi. w. n. w. of Portsville, and 0.3 mi. below Bailey's 

 Landing. Here there is a dense growth of Box Huckleberry on 

 the steep bank and adjoining level ground, 10 to 50 feet wide, and 

 extending about half a mile along the creek, though interrupted by 

 two or three gullies. Distributed from this station by R. R. Tat- 

 nall, 2154, 3 June 1934 (T, P, A, G) ; 3677, 30 April 1938 (T); 3680, 

 7 May 1938 (T). Fls. late April, mid-May. 



G. dumosa (Andr.) T. & G. Dwarf Huckleberry. 



Infrequent, dry sandy soil or sandy swamps on the Coastal 

 Plain of New Castle and Sussex Counties. Late May, June. 



Var. Bigeloviana Fern. 



Rare: Kiamensi (NC), Commons in 1894 (A); Seaford (S), 

 Commons in 1896 (A). 



G. frondosa (L.) T. & G. Blue Tangle. 



Frequent in dry or moist woods and thickets. Piedmont and 

 Coastal Plain of Cecil and New Castle Counties; occasional farther 

 south: near Cape Henlopen (S), Commons, 14 July 1898 (A); Long 

 Point (Ta), 5 mi. w. of Easton, Earle, 1460, 30 May 1937 (P). 

 Late May, June. 



G. baccata (Wang.) C. Koch. Black Huckleberry. 



Common in dry or swampy woods, and on open sandy soil. 

 Piedmont, and Coastal Plain southward at least to Talbot and 

 Sussex Counties. Early May, mid-June. 



Vaccinium L. Blueberries. Cranberries. 



V. stamineum L. Deerberry. 



Common in dry woods and open places on the Coastal Plain, 

 from the Fall Line southward to Worcester County; rare in the 



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