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and setose-hispid throughout. The densely-woolly leaves 

 are oblong and tipped with a sharp point, and the bracts 

 are leaflike. The flowers grow in short clustered racemes. 



OVAL-LEAVED BLUEBERRY 



Vaccinium ovalifolium. Huckleberry Family 



Leaves: alternate, oval, short-petioled, glabrous on both sides, 

 rounded at both ends or somewhat narrowed at the base, thin, entire. 

 Flowers: white and pink, commonly solitary in the axils on rather short 

 recurved pedicels; calyx-limb slightly toothed; corolla globose-ovoid, 

 toothed; stamens ten. Fruit: a many seeded blue berry with a bloom, 

 acid. 



There are in the mountain regions many species of V ac- 

 tinium that bear edible berries, but the Oval-leaved Blueberry 

 and the Black Blueberry are the most conspicuous in fruit, 

 the former having blue berries covered with a rich soft bloom 

 and possessing an acid though not unpalatable flavour, and 

 the latter having purplish-black berries that are quite sweet 

 and pleasant to the taste. 



The Oval-leaved Blueberry is a branching shrub, growing 

 from three to ten feet high, and has smooth twigs that are 

 sharply angled at the joints. The leaves are oval, green 

 above and covered with a whitish bloom beneath. The 

 small pink and white flowers are formed like tiny toothed 

 bells, and grow singly at the ends of the slender recurved 

 stalks, which causes them to droop downwards. The ber- 

 ries also are pendent. 



Vaccinium niembranaceum, or Black Blueberry, is not so 

 tall as the preceding species, seldom attaining a height of 

 six feet. The leaves are larger than those of the Oval- 

 leaved Blueberry, and are green on both sides and finely 

 edged with very tiny teeth. The flowers are globular, and 

 from their rounded corollas the long style protrudes. The 



