sturtevant's notes on edible plants 587 



V. parvifolium Sm. red huckleberry. 



Northwest coast of North America. The berries are red and make excellent tarts.' 

 The berries are of good size and flavor.^ 



V. pensylvanicum Lam. early blueberry, low sweet blueberry. 



Northern America, producing many varieties. The berries says Pursh,' are large, 

 bluish-black, extremely sweet and agreeable to eat. Gray * says the berries are large 

 and sweet and the earliest blueberry in the market. Emerson * says the berries are blue, 

 very sweet, rather soft for marketing, but are particularly suited to be preserved by 

 drying. Kakn * says the Indians formerly plucked huckleberries in abundance every year, 

 dried them in the sun, and preserved them for eating. In 1615, Champlain " found the 

 Indians near Lake Huron gathering blueberries for their winter store. Roger Williams ' 

 says of the New England Indians that they " gathered attitaask, worthleberries, of which 

 there are divers sorts: sweet, like currants, some opening, some of a binding nature. 

 Sautaash are these currants dried and so preserved all the year, which they beat to powder 

 and mingle with their parched meal and make a delicate dish which they call sautauthig, 

 which is as sweet to them as plum or spice cake to the English." The Indians of the North- 

 west coast are very fond of this fruit and smoke-dry it in large quantities for winter use.'' 



V. praestans Lamb. Kamchatka bilberry. 



Kamchatka. This is a minute plant but with large, delicious fruits.'" 



V. salicinum Cham. & Schlecht. 



Alaska. The berries are collected and dried by the natives." 



V. staminetun Linn, deerberry. squaw huckleberry. 



Northern United States. Elliott ^ says the berries are eaten. The Indians of Wisconsin 

 and Michigan make extensive use of the fruit." Emerson " says the fruit is scarcely eatable. 



V. uliginosum Linn, bog bilberry, moorberry. 



Northern climates. Don '* says the berries are large, juicy, black, covered with a 

 mealy bloom, eatable, but neither grateful nor wholesome. The berries, says Johnson,'* 



' Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 3:854. 1834. 



' Case Bot. Index 38. 1881. 



'Pursh, F. Fl. Amer. Septenl. 1:288. 1814. 



'Gray, A. Man. Bot. 291. 1868. 



' Emerson, G. B. Trees, Shrubs Mass. 2:456, 457. 187;. 



Kalm, P. Trav. iVo. ylwer. 2:390. 1772. 



'Parkman, F. Pion. France zt)i[. 1894. 



Williams, R. Key. Narragansett Club Ed. 1:122. 1643. 



'U.S. D.A.Rpt. i^i$. 1870. 

 "Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. $02. 1891. 

 " Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 581. 1879. 

 "Elliott, S. So/. 5o. Car., Ga. 1:496. 1821. 

 " U. S. D. A. Rpt. 415. 1870. 



" Emerson, G. B. Trees, Shrubs Mass. 2:^54. 1875. 

 "Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 3:853. 1834. 

 " Johnson, C. P. Use/id Pis. Ct. Brit. 163. 1875. 



