Vermont Shrubs and Woody Vines 



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THE COMMONER BLUEBERRIES. 

 1 High-bush forms, generally over 4 feet 2. 



1. Low-bush forms, generally less than 3 feet 3. 



2. Berries bluish-black with much bloom. 



Common high-bush blueberry. 



2. Berries dead black without bloom Black high-bush blueberry. 



3. Branchlets and leaves downy Canada blueberry. 



3. Branchlets and leaves smooth or nearly so 4. 



4. Leaves green and shining on both sides, distinctly but minutely 



toothed Early low blueberry. 



4. Leaves pale or glaucous below, margins entii'e or sparingly 

 toothed Late low blueberry. 



COMMON HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY. Voccinium corymhosum L. 

 This is the common tall or swamp blueberry frequenting the 

 low wet thickets over much of the state, and furnishing the 

 abundant late blueberry in the swamps about northern I^ake 



HiGHBusH Blueberry, X %. 



Champlain. It is a tall straggling shrub, typically five to ten 

 feet or even taller, but it varies quite widely in this and all other 

 characters. The branches are greenish brown with minute 



