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tomentulose with a white pubescence; mature leaves thick; 
villous-pubescent on the pale lower surface, becoming tawny in 
age, bright green and shining and usually thinly pubescent on the 
upper surface, entire or serrulate even on the same branch, firm, 
oblanceolate, long-tapering to the base and tapering-acute at 
apex to obovate-oblong or elliptic and acuminate, often 5-6 cm. 
long by 1.5-2 cm. wide, sometimes oblong-ovate and 2.5 cm. wide; 
flowers appearing with the leaves, disposed in numerous close 
clusters along the leafless or leafy terminations of the branches or 
scattered on lateral branchlets; corolla white, broadly cylindric, 
8-10 mm. nares 4-5-5 mm. wide; fruit blue-glaucous, dark beneath 
the bloo 
ede on Nantucket and on Long Island in low grounds. 
Type from Nantucket, Trot’s Swamp, July 3, 1912, young fruit; 
in flower, near Maxcy’s Pond, May 30, 1909; deposited in the 
herbarium New York Botanical Garden. 
It might be thought that this blueberry was a cross between 
V. atrococcum and V. corymbosum were it not that the flowers do 
not show any intermediate character and that the leaves are 
commonly narrower and more tapering towards base and apex 
than in either. It is evidently closely related to V. corymbosum 
and approaches V. fuscatum Ait. of the Southern States, described 
as fuscous-pubescent and with entire leaves. 
CHIOGENES HISPIDULA (L.) T. & G. 
Very local, on the eastern side of the island. Abundant in a 
sphagnum bog east of Almanac Pond, growing with the small 
cranberry and the pitcher plant. I have not myself seen it at 
any other station, but it is said to grow in other sphagnum bogs 
in the same neighborhood. Berries half grown June ITI, 1909. 
Oxycoccus Oxycoccos (L.) MacM. 
Locally abundant in cold sphagnum bogs: Long Pond; Hum- 
mock Pond; Abrams Point bog; Quaise; Pocomo; Sachacha Pond. 
Blooms rather earlier than the common cranberry. Just in flower 
June 2, 1909; June 9, 1911; June 11, 1908; in full flower July 6, 
1912. 
OXYCOCCUS MACROCARPUS (Ait.) Pers. 
One of the abundant native plants of Nantucket, thriving in 
sandy bogs and on the level shores of fresh water ponds. Nowalso 
