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510 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



94. Low Blueberry 



V. Pennsylvdnicum can be distinguished by its close bunches 

 of light-blue, very sweet berries, growing near the ends of the 

 branches, attended by many leaves. Branches of this low 

 shrub are rather irregular and angular, smooth, with light- 

 green, white-dotted bark. Leaves, small, oval, pointed at both 

 ends, very finely toothed. 



95, Canada Blueberry 



V. Canadense is much like the last. Leaves, oblong to lance- 

 shaped, and with the small, crowded branchlets softly downy. 

 Low, I or 2 feet high. 



Found in swamps and moist woods from New England to Penn- 

 sylvania and westward. 



96. Low Pale Blueberry 



V. vacillans, low, i to 3 feet high, has yellowish branches, 

 pale and dull oval or ovate leaves ; berries ripening late. 



These two last are scarcely more than varieties of V. Pcmisyl- 

 va7iicw)i. 



97. Swamp Blueberry. Tall Blueberry 



V. corwihosum is the finest of this genus. It grows 8 to 9 

 feet tall, in swamps or low grounds, bearing great qunntities 

 of large, delicious fruit, •:} bushel on a single hush. The ber- 

 ries arrive late, in the last of August or first of September. 

 Leaves, large, dark green, paler beneath, oval, pointed, entire. 

 Flowers and fruit on short peduncles in close clusters, borne 

 on short branches which are the growth of the previous year; 

 I to 2 yellowish bracts at the base of each. 



98. Bearberry 



Arcfostdphylos uva-ursi ("a bear and a grape or berry"). 

 — luitmly, Heath. Color, nearly white. Leaves, alternate, 



