1 62 Heath (Ericacece) 



Fig. 73. Common Low Blueberry. Dwarf Blueberry. 



V. Pennsylvdnicum, Lam. 



Flowers, usually reddish-white, one quarter inch long, in 

 short, close clusters. Corolla, short, cylindrical, and 

 somewhat bell-shaped. Calyx-teeth, green and spread- 

 ing. Stamens, hairy, not exserted from the corolla. 

 May, June. 



Leaves, three quarters to one inch long, oblong to lance- 

 shape, stemless ; smooth and shining above and be- 

 neath ; finely and sharply bristle-toothed. Stems and 

 branches, green and warty, and often with a hairy line 

 running down each side. 



Fruit, large, blue, sweet, ripening earlier than that of V. 

 vacillans. July, August. 



Found, growing in thick patches in dry, hard soil, from 

 New Jersey to Illinois, and northward ; very common 

 in New England. 



A bush six to fifteen inches high, the lowest and the 

 earliest of the Blueberries. 



A narrow-leaved lower variety (var. augustifblium, 

 G.J, is found on the White Mountains of New Hampshire 

 and far northward. 



Var. nigrum, Wood, has the leaves dark green, the 

 berries black and shining. 



V. Canadense. Kalm. 

 This species differs from the preceding ( V. Pennsyl- 

 vanicum) chiefly in the following items : 



Leaves, entire, downy beneath, and at least on the veins 

 above. Branchlets, reddish-green and downy. 



Found, from Maine and New Hampshire westward and 

 northward. 





