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 587. SPICY OR CREEPING WINTERGREEN 



GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS L. 



Common in woods west and south of the lake, as Green's, Wal- 

 ley's and Zechiel's; abundant along* the railroad by the birch 

 swamp ; plentiful west of the dunes ; and abundant in a small but 

 dense patch at the edge of a sandy wood about a mile down the 

 outlet. The spicy berries, which are one of the most delicious 

 morsels which the woodlands afford, are an uncertain crop. They 

 are never markedly abundant about the lake, and one sometimes 

 can find but few where a good crop might reasonably be expected ; 

 then again one may find a good crop in some unexpected spot. 



Family 114. Vacciniace^. Huckleberry Family 



588. black or HIGH-BUSH HUCKLEBERRY 



GAYLUSSACIA BACCATA (Wang.) K. Koch 



Common ; scattered through rather open sandy woodlands, es- 

 pecially common at the edges of woods. Common along the east 

 side of the outlet of Lost Lake, and forming a pretty thick fringe 

 of the marsh about the head of the lake. Leafing out well April 

 26. In flower by May 14. Fruit ripe from July 27 to the latter 

 part of August. The fruit is sweet and of a spicy flavor but full 

 of hard seeds. The fruits are borne scattered and sparsely. 



589. LOW BLUEBERRY; BLUE HUCKLEBERRY 



VACCINIUM VACILLANS Kalm 



Rather rare; a few plants were found on the brow of a gentle 

 slope at Long Point, at the end of the forest near Chadwick's pier. 

 The whole region here has been changed and cleared out and they 

 are now gone. A few were also found along the continuation of 

 the same ridge by Lost Lake among the Gaylussacias. The berry 

 is considerably superior in flavor to that of Gaylussacia. 



590. LARGE CRANBERRY; AMERICAN CRANBERRY 



OXYCOCCUS MACROCARPUS (Ait.) Pursh 



A few straggling plants occur in a gully in Walley's woods east 

 of Lost Lake outlet; they were never seen in fruit. A patch 

 formed a broken ring next to the water in the center of Hawk's 

 marsh. These plants grew quite densely in the wet sphagnum. 

 They bore very little fruit during the early part of the survey, but 

 in later years, 1904, 1906, and later, bore rather profusely and 

 seemed to be increasing in productiveness. It was reported that 



