390 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Vaccinium Arctostaphylos, Lhme". 



From Greece to the Caucasus. The leaves, dried and slightly 

 heated, furnish the Broussa-tea, the material for a fairly palatable 

 beverage (Gr. Maw). 



Vaccinium bicolor, F. v. Mueller. (Thibaudia bicolor, Ruiz and Pavon.) 



Cold zones of Peruvian Andes. A high evergreen bush, with red 

 berries of about the size of a hazel-nut. All Thibaudias seem best to 

 form a section in the genus Vaccinium, some species of the latter 

 for instance, Vaccinium Imrayi (Hooker) from Dominica mediating 

 the transit. The species of the section Thibaudia, as a rule, produce 

 red berries of acidulous grateful taste. Many others may therefore 

 deserve culture or naturalization in forest-ravines or on sub-alpine 

 heights. They occur from Peru to Mexico, also in the West-Indies. 

 One species, Vaccinium melliflorum (Thibaudia melliflora, Ruiz and 

 Pavon), has its flowers particularly rich in honey-nectar. 



Vaccinium caespitosum, Michaux. 



Labrador, Canada and North-Eastern States of the American Union. 

 A deciduous-leaved small bush, with bluish edible berries. V. ovali- 

 folium (Smith) is an allied species. 



Vacciniuni Canadense, Kalm.* 



From the Middle States of North-America northwards. A dwarf 

 shrub in swampy ground of woodlands. Yields, like V. Pennsyl- 

 vanicum, to which it is allied, edible blueberries or huckleberries. 

 Mr. Marity calls the berries delicious, fetching a high price up to 

 1 1 dollars a bushel, never lower than 5 dollars, in New York. One 

 bush yields from a pint to a quart of berries. It thrives through all 

 grades of soil and exposure. The berries are rather large and aro- 

 matic; for cooking and preserves they locally take precedence to any 

 other kind of berry; they are easily dried, and retain their full delicious- 

 flavor. The bush grows occasionally to a height of 15 feet. 



Vaccinium corymbosum, Linne". 



The Swamp-Blueberry or Blue Huckleberry. Canada and Eastern 

 States of North- America. A good sized shrub, reaching a height of 

 15 feet, with deciduous foliage. Berries bluish-black, rather large, 

 aromatic, of sweetish taste, ripening late in the season. The fre- 

 quency of this bush in its native countries induces the anticipation, 

 that it could readily be disseminated elsewhere in apt climes and soils. 



Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Michaux. (Oxycoccus erectus, Pursh.) 



Carolina and Virginia, on high mountains. An upright bush, a 

 few feet in height, with deciduous leaves. The transparent scarlet 

 berries, according to Pursh, are of excellent taste. 



Vaccinium grandmorum, Dombey. (Ceratostemmagrandiflorum, Ruiz and 

 Pavon). 



Andes of Peru. A tall evergreeu shrub. The berries of a 

 pleasant acidulous taste. 



