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HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 



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4. Vaccinium ovalifdlium J. E. Smith. 

 Tall or Oval-leaved Bilberry. (Fig. 2786. ) 



Vaccinium ovalifolium J. E. Smith in Rees' 



Cyclop. No. 2. 1817. 



A straggling branched shrub, 3-i2 high, 

 the branches slender; twigs glabrous, jointed, 

 sharply angled. Leaves oval, short-petioled, 

 glabrous on both sides, green above, pale and 

 glaucous beneath, rounded at both ends, or 

 somewhat narrowed at the base, thin, some- 

 times mucronulate, entire or very nearly so, \ f - 

 2 X long; flowers commonly solitary in the axils, 

 on rather short recurved pedicels; calyx-limb 

 slightly toothed; corolla globose-ovoid; stamens 

 10; berry blue with a bloom, 4"-5" in diameter. 



Woods, Quebec to Michigan, Oregon and Alaska. 

 Also in Japan. June-July. Fruit ripe July-Aug. 



5. Vaccinium virgatum Ait. Southern 

 Black Huckleberry. (Fig. 2787.) 



Vaccinium virgatum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789. 

 A shrub, 3-i2 high, the branches slender, 

 green, the young twigs puberulent. Leaves 

 narrowly oval-oblong, broadest at the middle, 

 mucronate, short-petioled, entire, green and gla- 

 brous above, pale or glaucous beneath, veins 

 pubescent, thick when old, i / -2^ / long, %'-*' 

 wide, the ends narrowed; flowers in short ra- 

 cemes or clusters, appearing before the leaves, 

 equalling or longer than their pedicels; bracts 

 and bractlets small, deciduous; calyx 5-lobed; 

 corolla nearly cylindric, 5"-^' long, \"-i% ff 

 thick, white or light pink; stamens 10; berry black, with or without bloom, 2 // -3 // in diameter. 

 In swamps, southern Virginia to Florida and Louisiana. April-May. Fruit ripe in July. 



Vaccinium virgatum tenellum (Ait.) A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part i, 22. 1878. 

 Vaccinium tenellum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789. 



Low, mostly less than 2 high; leaves smaller, narrower, M'-i^' long; flowers white, or nearly 

 so, a"-3" long. Probably a distinct species. Southern Virginia to Arkansas, Florida and Alabama. 



6. Vaccinium corymbosum L. High-bush or Tall Blueberry. (Fig. 2788.) 



Vaccinium corymbosum L. Sp. PI. 350. 1753. 

 V. amoenum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789. 



A shrub, 6-i5 high; branches stiff; twigs 

 terete, minutely warty, greenish-brown, pu- 

 berulent, or glabrous. Leaves oval or oblong, 

 mostlyacuteat each end, usually entire, some- 

 times ciliate, green and glabrous above, paler 

 and often pubescent at least on the veins be- 

 neath, short-petioled, i / -3 / long, X / ~ I /^ / 

 wide; flowers in short racemes, appearing 

 with the leaves, equalling or longer than their 

 pedicels; bracts oblong or oval, deciduous; 

 calyx s-lobed; corolla cylindric, or slightly 

 constricted at the throat, white or faintly 

 pink, 3 // -6 // long, \W-$" thick, 5-toothed 

 (rarely 5-lobed) ; stamens 10; berry blue with 

 a bloom, 3 // -4 // in diameter, pleasantly acid. 



In swamps, thickets and woods, Newfoundland 

 to Virginia, west to Minnesota and Louisiana. 

 May-June. Fruit ripe July-Aug. Called also 

 Swamp Blueberry. The late market blueberry. 



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