72 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



with red and green, finely toothed and laurel-shaped. 

 It is the lowest and earliest of the blueberries. Its 

 immature clusters of fruit are of the most beautiful 

 aesthetic hues: green, magenta, pink, purple, and 

 violet. The dwarf blue-berry is an upland species 

 which is found on some of the high- 

 est summits of the White 

 Mountains. Another species, 

 V. Canadense, has downy leaves 

 without teeth, which are 

 broader than those of V. 

 Pennsylvanicum ; it grows from 

 one to two feet high. Late in 

 August, in the thickets that bor- 

 der the marsh, the fruit of the 

 swamp or high blueberry ( V. corym- 

 bosum) appears. This lowland species 

 attains a height of from five to ten 

 feet, and bears a blue-purple or blackish, slightly 

 acid berry. In May the flowering branchlets are 

 often leafless. 



The common huckleberry (Gaylussacia resinosa) 

 grows from one to three feet high, and bears a shin- 

 ing black berry without bloom, which ripens in Au- 

 gust. Its leaf (without teeth) and reddish flower in 

 May or early June are sticky with bright, tiny, resi- 

 nous yellowish globules. We will find this species 



Huckleberry. 



