AND ST. PIERRE ET MIQUELON—WAGHORNE. 383 
400. *Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, Lam. Common Low or 
Early Fruiting Blueberry or Whortleberry. (Low Busu Hurts). 
Very abundant on burnt tracts (R. & S.); seems to be about our 
most common whortleberry. I have it from White Bay, Notre 
Dame Bay, Bay S. George, Trinity Bay and Bay of Islands. 
Flora Mig., very common; open woods and barrens. June to 
August. 
Var. angustifolium, Gray. Grounpb Hurt. On _ the 
Labrador, Topacco Hurt. Rocky hills, Placentia, infrequent ; 
Salmonier (R. & 8.) ; Trinity Bay and Bay of Islands (A. C. W.). 
Lab: (Gray, Cat. IL., 290) ; hillsides and Caribou Island (Butler) ; 
Nain (Lundbery--Packard) ; Snack Cove, Sandwich Bay (A.C.W.) 
Flora Miq.: very common. June—August. 
401. V. cespitosum, Mx. Dwarf or Tufty Bilberry or 
Blueberry. (SuGAR Hurt—Labrador), (Reeks) ; Lab: Hopedale 
(Weiz), and Belles Amours, and on Caribou Islands (Butler— 
Packard) ; (at Snack Cove, near Sandwich Bay, and Cape Charles 
(A.C. W.). Hillsides. July. 
402. V. Canadense, Kalm. Canadian Blueberry. (Reeks) : 
Bay 8. George, White Bay and Bonne Bay (Bullman); Harbour 
Breton, Fortune Bay (A.C. W.). July. 
403. V. corymbosum, L. Swamp Blueberry. (Reeks) ; 
swamps and low woods from Newfoundland to Western 
Ontario (Gray : Cat. IT., 290); S. Paul’s Bay, N. W. coast (Bull- 
man). Wet places. July. 
404. V. Vitis-Idewa, L. Cowberry, Red Whortleberry 
(PARTRIDGE BeRRY, +REDBERRY). Very abundant from the 
Atlantie to the Pacitie, except Southern Ontario and the prairie 
regions (Hook, Cat. IT., 292). Appears to be abundant and 
widely distributed throughout Newfoundland and the Labrador. 
*The Vaccinium family (excepting V. Vitis Idea, L.) is generally called by our 
people on the east coast, “hurts ;” on the west coast, ** blue berries.” 
+A dear old friend of mine, writing from the neighbourhood of Sandwich Bay, 
Labrador, told me, afew years ago, that she and the three girls had that fall gathered 
and sold 40 gallons of ‘‘bakeapples” (Rubrus Chamamorus), and 28 gallons of “red~ 
berries.” 
