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400. *Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, Lam. Common Low or 

 Early Fruiting Blueberry or Whortleberry. (Low BUSH 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 Miq., very common ; open woods and barrens. June to 

 August. 



Var. angusti folium, Gray. GROUND HURT. On the 

 Labrador, TOBACCO HURT. Rocky hills, Placentia, infrequent ; 

 Salmonier (R. & S.) ; Trinity Bay and Bay of Islands (A. C. W.). 

 Lab : (Gray, Cat. II., 290) ; hillsides and Caribou Island (Butler) ; 

 Nain (Lundbery Packard) ; Snack Cove, Sandwich Bay (A.. C.W.) 

 Flora Miq. : very common. June August. 



401. V. ccespitosum, 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, Kalrn. Canadian Blueberry. (Reeks); 

 Bay S. 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. II., 290) ; S. Paul's Bay, N. W. coast (Bull- 

 man). Wet places. July. 



404. V. Vitis-Idcea, L. Cowberry, Red Whortleberry 

 (PARTRIDGE BERRY, fREDBERRY). Very abundant from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific, except Southern Ontario and the prairie 

 regions (Hook, Cat. IL, 292). Appears to be abundant and 

 widely distributed throughout Newfoundland and the Labrador. 



* The Vaccinium family (excepting V. Vitis Ideea, L.) is* generally called by our 

 people on the east coast, " hurts ;" on the west coast, " blue berries." 



tA dear old friend of mine, writing from the neighbourhood of Sandwich Bay, 

 Labrador, told me, a few 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." 



