392 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



on alpine ranges and in cooler woodlands would prove a boon, The 

 berries can be utilized also for their dye. The whole bush contains 

 quina-acid. 



Vaccinium ovalifolium, Smith. 



North- Western America from Mendocino to Oregon. This shrub 

 bears large edible berries (Dr. Gibbons). 



Vaccinium ovatum, Pursh. 



Common throughout California, also in British Columbia, at alti- 

 tudes from 1,000 to 2,000 feet, attaining a height of about 8 feet. It 

 bears its fruit in densely crowded racemes, the dark -blue but small 

 berries being of good flav . . This species would doubtlessly form a 

 valuable accession among cultivated fruits (Gibbons). 



Vaccinium Oxy COCCUS, Linn. (Gxycoccus palustris, Persoon.) 



The British Cranberry. Throughout Europe, Northern and Middle 

 Asia, North- America; on turf -moss in moory heaths. A creeping 

 evergreen shrub of particular neatness. The berries give a most 

 agreeable preserve, and are of antiscorbutic value. This species is 

 particularly eligible for the spongy, mossy bogs of alpine mountains. 

 Indigenous in Norway northward to lat. 70 45'. 



Vaccinium parvifolium, Smith. 



North-Western America, from Mendocino to Sitka. A tall shrub. 

 The berries are excellent for preserves. 



Vaccinium penduliflorum, Gaudichaud. 



Hawaia, where it is called the " Ohelo." The acidulous berries 

 of this bush are edible. 



Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, Lamarck.* (V. angustifolium, Alton.) 



The early Blueberry or Blue Huckleberry. North- America, on 

 dry woody hills. A dwarf bush with deciduous foliage, producing 

 fruit in abundance and early in the season. The berries are large, 

 bluish-black and of sweet taste. V. Canadense (Kalm), according to 

 Dr. Asa Gray, is closely allied. 



Vaccinium prsestans, RudolpM. 



Kamtschatka. A minute plant, but with large delicious fruits. It 

 might perhaps easily be disseminated on any alpine mountains. 



Vaccinium uliginosum, Lhm. 



British Bog-Bilberry. Europe, Northern and Middle Asia, North- 

 America. A deciduous bush, with blackish berries, similar to those 

 of V. Myrtillus, but hardly of equal excellence. Wild to lat'. 78 

 north in Greenland. 



Vaccinium vacillans, Solander. 



Eastern North- America, in sandy forest-lands. A deciduous small 

 bush, with its blue berries coming later into season than V. Pennsyl- 

 vanicum (Dr. A. Gray). 



