VACCINIUM 



below, or hairy along the midrib, margin finely serrulate the teeth bristle 

 tipped (rarely nearly entire), tip acute, base wedge-shaped, leaves 13-35 

 mm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, petioles about 1 mm. long; flowers in terminal 

 or lateral racemes or panicles from scaly winter buds, appearing with the 

 leaves, bracts broadly oval, reddish, pedicels about 1 mm. long, sepals 5 

 their free tips triangular, somewhat acute, about 1 mm. long, corolla of 

 5 petals united nearly to their tips, white or pale pink, narrowly bell- 

 shaped or almost spherical, tube 4-5 mm. long, free tips of the petals 

 about 1 mm. long, scarcely spreading, stamens 10, included in the corolla, 

 filaments slightly hairy, usually a little shorter than the anthers, anthers 

 without awns, the sacs prolonged upwards into tubes with terminal pores, 

 style straight, slightly exserted; berry 10-celled, blue with a bloom, sweet 

 and edible : pennsylvanicum, Pennsylvanian. 



Dry sandy soil, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, southwards to Vir- 

 ginia, Illinois, and Minnesota. In Minnesota abundant in the northern 

 part of the state and in the eastern part as far south as Minneapolis, 



ikccmium penary! \ian\ cum. liaccmium carcadercse. 



reported from the vicinity of Lake Pepin. Flowers in May or June, fruit 

 ripe in July. 



The most abundant blueberry in Minnesota and the earliest to ripen. 



