HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 659 



Vaccinium rayrsinites Lam. Encycl. 1 : 73. 1789. Evergreen Blueberry. 



Ell. 8k. 1:494. Chap. FL 260. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 :21. 



Caroliaian aud Louisianian areas. Ceorgia; P"'lori(la to LouisiaDa. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Metaniorpbic lulls. Lower Pineregion. Coastplain. 

 Dry sandy pine barrens. Lee County, Auburn ( liakir 4' Jiarle, 305). Clay, Wash- 

 ington, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers pink, March; fruit ripe. May; 

 black, insipid. Evergreen, 5 to 10 inches high. Common. 



Type locality : " Cette espece croit abondammeut dans la Floride, aiix environs de 

 St. Augustin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vaccinium myrsinites glaucum Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 21. 1878. 



Pale Evergreen Blueberry. 



Louisianian area. Eastern Louisiana, Mississippi. 



Alabama : Motamorpliic hills to Coast Pine belt. Barren rocky hills and dry pine 

 barrens. Clarke County, Choctaw Coiner. Cherty hills of the bubrstone strata. 

 Mobile and Baldwin counties, sandy pine ridges. Lee County, Auburn {Earle). 

 Flowers pale pink, April; fruit ripens in .June. Not frecjueut; abundant in some 

 localities. Shrub 1 to Ih feet high. 



Type locality: "New Orleans f (/>?'hh)?«o/k/) to Alabama, ttc." (Kvidently wrong). 



Herl). Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vaccinium elliottii Chap. Fl. 260. 1860. Elliott's Blueberry. 



Vaccinium virqatum var. parvifolium Gray, Svn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 22. 1878. 



r. myrtil hides Ell. Sk. 1 : 500. 1818. Not M'ichx. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. -Chap. Fl. 1. c. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1. c. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia; Florida west to eastern Texas and 

 Arkansas. 



Alabama: Mountain region to Coast plain. In saiidy damp ground. Low 

 thickets, l)orders of swampy w^oods. Cullman County, 800 feet. Low gravelly or 

 rocky banks of streams. Lee County. Auburn (Baker ^S' Earle). Monroe County, 

 Claiborne. Washington, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers white to pale i)iuk, 

 appearing during the iirstdays of spring (February 10) on the naked branches l)efore 

 the leaves; fruit ripens May (20) and June; berries shining black, small, sweet, mostly 

 single, rarely more than two from the same bud. 



Shrub 6 to 8 feet high, branching from the base, branches green, slender, erect, 

 ultimately reclining. The most frequent of the blueberries in the low country, 

 frequently forming the boscage along the banks of pine-barren streams. 



Economic uses: The berries are sweet aud edible. 



Type locality : " River swamps, Florida to South Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Vaccinium virgatum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 12. 1789. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 498, in part? Gray, Man. ed. 6, 312. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 283. Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. 2, pt. 1:21. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia to Florida and eastern 

 Louisiana. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Dry or damp sandy copses. Baldwin County, Point 

 Clear; open live oak hammocks. Flowers middle of March; mature fruit not seen. 



Shrub 3 to 6 feet high, with slender, erect-spreading branches; not frequent. 



Vaccinium teuellum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 12. 1789. Gale-leaf Blueberry. 



Vaccinium virgatum teuellum Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 22. 1878. 



V. qalezans Michx. Fl. 1 : 232. 1803. ' 



Ell. Sk. 1:499. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 312. Chap. Fl. 260. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of southern New Jersey to Florida, west 

 to Mississippi and Arkansas. 



Alai'.ama: Mountain region. Metaniorpbic hills to Coast plain. Shady banks 

 and copses in sandy soil. Lee County, A.nhnvn {llaker c^- Earle). Mobile County, 

 Citronelle and One-mile Creek. Baldwin County, Montrose. April. 



Low, somewhat decumbent, \k to scarcely 2 feet high ; brauchlets brownish-pubes- 

 cent, as are the lanceolate, mucionate leaves which are acute at both ends; serru- 

 late above the base; from f to 2 inches long, ,',; to | inch wide. Flowers in 

 subsessile or sessile, mostly umbellate, clusters, corolla o\ate to oblong, appearing 

 with the leaves. 



By the above characters readily distinguislied from stunted forms of /'. elliottii. 



Type locality : "Native of North America," 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 



