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shaped, greenish. — Dry woods, Maine to Penn, and southward, 
chiefly eastward. May, June. 
§ 4. Euvaccinium.— Ovary 4-5-celled, with no trace of false parti¬ 
tions : corolla urn-shaped or globular, 4 - 5-toothed : anthers 2-awned 
on the back: filaments smooth : flowers axillary, solitary, or 2-3 to¬ 
gether : berries blue or black : northern-alpine plants, with deciduous 
leaves. (Bilberry.) 
5. V* CSBSpitosilHl* Michx. (Dwarf Bilberry.) Dwarf, 
tufted ; leaves obovate, narrowed at the base, membranaceous, smooth, 
somewhat shining, serrate; flowers solitary on short peduncles; corol¬ 
la oblong, slightly urn-shaped : stamens 10. — Alpine region of the 
White Mountains, N. Hampshire, Robbins, Oakes. July. —Stems 3' 
-5' high. 
6. V. Uligindsnm, L. (Low Bog Bilberry.) Low and 
spreading, tufted; leaves entire, dull, obovate or oblong , obtuse, pale 
and slightly pubescent underneath; flowers single or 2-d together 
from a scaly bud, almost sessile; corolla short, urn-shaped; stains 
chiefly 8. — Alpine tops of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, 
Green Mountains, Vermont, and Essex Mountains, New York. June. 
— Stems 4' - 8' high : leaves scarcely long. 
8 5. Cyaiioc6ccus.— Ovary more or less completely 10 -celled by false 
partitions: corolla oblong-cylindrical or slightly urn-shaped, 5-toothed: 
anthers 10, awnless: filaments hairy: berries blue or black with a 
bloom ( sweet) : flowers in clusters or very short racemes from scaly 
buds separate from and somewhat preceding the leaves, a VP earin 8™ 
Jtpril and May. (Leaves deciduous in the northern species or p p 
7 !"nnsylvAnicum, Lam. (Low Shrikc-leaveo 
Blueberry.) Dwarf (6» -15' high), smooth; leaves ovate- anceoto e 
or oblong-lanceolate, distinctly serrulate with bristle-pomted teeth, smooth 
and shining both sides (or sometimes downy on the midrib under- 
neath); corolla short, cylindncal-bell-shaped. (V. tenfell , > 
not of Ait. V. virghtum, AU.) - Var. angust,f6lium is a ngh moun- 
tain or boreal form, 4' -6' high, with narrower lanceolate *•«“•<• 
angustifolium, Ait.) — Dry hills and woods.-Branches green, angled, 
warted. Berries abundant, large and sweet, ripening e y i 
the earliest blueberry or blue huckleberry in the market. 
8. T. Canada, Kalm. (Dowry-lexveo 
L ow; leaves oblong-lanceolate, entire, downy both ttd, is, 
crowded branchlets; corolla very short, nearly bell-shaped.-Swamps 
and moist mountain woods, Maine to Michigan, nort \\ar . 
8'-20' high, with green twigs, and berries like the last but p g 
later. * 
9. V. vacillans, Solander. (Small Glaucous ’ 
Low (1° - 2P high) ; branches angular ; leaves oval or o ov , 
