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used ; Blue Dangleberry by Fuller in the Small Fruit Guitarist, 

 1867 ; High Blueberry by Wood in 1875. 



3. Oaylussacia resinosa, T. and G. Gray, Syn. FL, 2, 1, 20. 

 Synonyme, Vaccinium resinosum, Ait., Kew., 2,12; Michx., Fl., 



1, 232; Bot. Mag., t. 1288; 



Ell., Sk., i, 498; Pursh, Fl., 



1286; Bigel., Fl. Best., 150; 



Torr., Fl., i, 415; Hook.,Fl. 



Bor. Am., 2, 31. 

 " "• parviflorum, Andr., Bot. Rep., t. 125. 



" Andromeda baccata, Wang. Amer., iii, t. 30, p. 69. 



" Decamerium resinosum, Nutt. 



This species occasionally has varieties with white fruit. Her- 

 xey^ mentions them about New Bedford, and Westbrook^ records 

 them in New Jersey'. " They are only white when grown and 

 ripened in the shade. If partially exposed to the sun, they will 

 have a pink cheek. When exposed to the full rays of the sun, as 

 in a field, they will be either pink or of a bright scarlet color." 



Rocky woodlands and swamps, Newfoundland to Saskatche- 

 wan and South to Upper Georgia. The only species in the North- 

 em Mississippi States, where it is rare. 



Pursh says the berries are black, eatable ; Bigelow, that the 

 fruit is globular, black, sweet ; Gray, that the fruit is black, 

 rarely varying to white, without bloom, pleasant. This species 

 furnishes the Huckleberry or Black Huckleberry of our markets. 

 I am hardly of those who recommend this sort for cultivation, as 

 the fruit is not of the best, although the best of the Huckleberries, 

 being excelled in quality by the Blueberries, and the habits of 

 the plant are not such as to commend it. 



The vernacular names are given as Black Huckleberry by Bige- 

 low, 1814, 1824, 1840; Torrey, 1843; Fuller, 1867; Gray, 1867; 

 Wood, 1875 ; Emerson, 1875 ; Robinson, 1880. As Black 

 Whortleberry by Bigelow, 1814, 1824, 1840 ; Eaton, 1840 ; Emer- 

 son, 1875. As Huckleberry- by Gray, 1886. 



4. Gaylussacia ursina, T. and G. Gray, Syn. Fl., 2, 1, 20. 

 Synonyme, Vaccinium ursinum, M. A. Curtis in Am. Jour. 



Sc, XLIV, 82. 



2 Flora of New Bedford, 1860. 3 Garden and Forest., Jan. 2, 1889, p. 10. 



