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Moist woods, confined to the mountains of the southern part of 

 North Carolina and adjacent parts of South Carolina. 



Gray in his " Chloris Americana," 1846, says the fruit, though 

 edible, and indeed not unpleasant when fully ripe, has not the fine 

 flavor of the other species, and is seldom eaten ; in his ' ' Synopti- 

 cal Flora," he says, " fruit, reddish, turning black, insipid." 



The vernacular names are Bear-berry and Bear Huckleberry. 



B. Vaccinium, L. 



1. Vaccinium ccespitosum, Michx. Gray, Syn. Fl., 2, 1, 24; 



Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., 2, 33, t. 126, 

 and Bot. Mag., t. 3429. 



Hudson's Bay and Labrador, alpine summits of the White 

 Mountains of New Hampshire, and Colorado Rocky Mountains 

 to Alaska. 



Var. arbuscula, Gray I. c, in Oregon passes into the ordinary 

 form and into var. cuneifoUum, Nutt., Mem. Am. Phil. Soc, n. 

 ser., Vni, 262. Mountains of Colorado and Utah to California, 

 British Columbia, and east to Lake Superior. 



Gray says the berry is quite large, blue with a bloom, sweet ; 

 Wood that the berries are large, globous, blue, eatable. 



Wood gives Bilberry as the vernacular name. 



2. Vaccinium Canadense, Kalm. Richards, in Franklin, ed. 



2, 12; Hook., Fl. 2, 32, and Bot. 

 Mag., t. 3446; Gray, Syn. Fl., 2, 

 1, 22. 

 Synonyme, Vaccinium album. Lam. Diet., i, 73, not L. 



Swamps or low woods, Hudson's Bay to Bear Lake and the 

 northern Rocky Mountains ; south to north New England ; mount- 

 ains of Pennsylvania and Illinois. 



This species is abundant in certain swamps in Maine, and the 

 berries are largely collected and sent to market under the name 

 of Blueberries. The quality is excellent. 



It is called Black Bilberry by Torrey 1843 ; Canada Blueberry 

 by Provancher, 1862 ; Gray, 1867 ; Fuller, 1867 ; Dame and Col- 

 lins, 1888. 



3. Vaccinium corymbosum, L, Smithin Rees's Cyc, No. 13 ; 



Gray, Syn. Fl , 2, 1, 22; 

 Ell., Sk., i, 498. 



