CHAPTER Y. 



THE WOODLAND ROAD SHRUBS AND FLOWERS BELONG- 

 ING TO THE HEATH FAMILY. 



SOME of the most beautiful shrubs and herbs 

 which grow beside the woodland road are members 

 of the Heath family (Ericaceae), and many of them 

 the huckleberry, trailing 

 arbutus, mountain laurel, 

 and Indian pipe, for in- 

 stance are common 

 throughout the hilly re- 

 gions of Pennsylvania, 

 New Jersey, New York, 

 and New England. 



As summer advances 

 we will find on the way- 

 sides of the climbing hills 

 the dwarf blueberry ( Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum), 

 with its beautiful cadet-blue berries, sweet as honey, 

 clustered at the tips of bushes scarcely ten inches 



high. The miniature leaves are variously colored 



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Dwarf Blueberry. 



