2'JU OKOLOCJICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



349. VACCINIUM, Linn. (BLUEBERRY OR CRANBERRY.) 



(1351.) V. stamineum, Linn. Deoilniiy. 

 r. nlhtm, rui-sli. V\. 1., 28, not of Linn. 

 l)r>- locks, 'riiiuisand iBltunls in tho 81. Ltiwronco. (Alacoim.) 

 Wliirlpdiil. itolow Niagara Falls. (MacliKjan.) 



(1352.) V. Pennsylvanicum, Lam. Early-lhiiiing JJlucbony. 



)". tnulhm, Pursh. Vl L, 288. 



hiy hills and woods and sandy swamps i'rom Newfoundland to tho 

 Eocky Mountains. Fruit abundant and valuable. 



Var. angustifolium, Gray. 



Labrador and Hudson Bay, also Newfoundland. {Gray.) Peat 

 bogs, Salt Lake, Anticosti ; top of Mount Albert, Shici^shock Moun- 

 tains, Gaspd ; north-east coast of Lake Superior, above Micliipicolin. 

 (^Macoun.) Shores of Lake St. John, Q. (J. Richardson.) Specimens 

 from Mount Albert are very hairy on the midrib and ciliate on the 

 margins. 



(1353.) V. Canadense, Kalm. Canada Blueberry. 



Very common in swamps and on sandy barrens, especially in the 

 pineries throughout Canada from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains 

 and northward to Hudson Bay and Bear Lake. This is oui- commonest 

 species and has become quite a valuable fruit since the building of 

 railways into the forest regions of Quebec and Ontario. 



(1354.) V. vaciilans, Solander. Low Blueberry. 



Dry sandy woodlands and banks in western Ontario. Near Grenadier 

 Pond, Toronto, and along the railway at Port Dover Junction, Ont. 

 (^Macoun.) Near the Waterdown Road, Hamilton, Ont. {Logie.) 

 Vicinity of Toronto and London. (Biirgess.) 



(1355.) V. corymbosum, Linn. Swamp Blueberry. 

 V. dimorphum, Michx. Fl. I., 231. 

 Swamps and low woods from Newfoundland to western Ontai-io. 

 (^Gray.) About Quebec. (Cleghorn.) Lake Huron. (Dy. Todd.) 

 Reported from many points, but varieties not sijecitied. 



Var. amoenum, Gray. 



Rich, wet woods at Bismarck on the Canada Southern Railway, west 

 of St. Thomas, Ont. (3Iacoun.) Vicinity of London. (^Burgess.) 

 Probably the western or southern form. 



