HUCKLEBERRIES AND BLUEBERRIES. 23 



Sj'Donyme, Vaccinium disomorphum, Michx., FL, i, 23. 



(1) var. amcenum, Gra}', Man., ed. 5, 292. 

 V. amoenum, Ait., Kew., 2, 12 ; Andr., Bot. Rep., t. 



135; Bot. Reg.,t. 400. 

 V. corymbosum, var. fuscatum. Hook., Bot. Mag., 



t. 3433? 



(2) war. pallidum, Gray, Man., ed. 5, 292. 

 V. pallidum. Ait., I. c. ; Gray, Man., ed. 1, 262. 

 V. albiflorum, Hook., Bot. Mag., t. 3428. 

 V. eonstablaei. Gray in Am. Jour. Sc, XLII, 



42; Chapm., Fl., 260. 



(3) var. fuscatum, Gray, Syn. FL, 2, 1, 23. 

 V. fuscatum, Ait., I. c. 



(4) var. atrococcum. Gray, Man., ed. 5, 292. 

 v. fuscatum, Gray, Man., ed. 1, 262. 

 V. disomorphum, Bigel., Fl. Bost., ed. 2, 151. 



Swamps and low woods, from Newfoundland and Canada 

 through the Atlantic States to Louisiana, but rare in the Missis- 

 sippi region. Variety 1 is found mainl}'^ in the Middle Atlantic 

 States ; variety 2 is common through the AUeghanies southward, 

 mostly on the tops of the higher mountains ; variety 3 occurs in 

 Alabama and Florida to Arkansas and Louisiana ; variety 4 is 

 common from north New England to Pennsj'lvania. 



This species is very variable not only in the habit of growth, 

 but in its blooming characters and fruit. It furnishes the best of 

 our fruits of the huckleberry or blueberry class. Large, covered with 

 a blue powder, acid and sweet, and of a peculiar, delicate, attract- 

 ive flavor. I have measured berries in number from single plants 

 that covered five-eighths of an inch in diameter. In the Carolinas, 

 Elliott in his sketch of the Botany saj's, the fruit is indifferent 

 to eat ; Bigelow, in Massachusetts, that they are large, acid and 

 sweet, and that the variety atrococcum has small, polished, black 

 berries, and I can add of excellent savor. The plant grows in all 

 kinds of soil, attains often a considerable size, is, in individual 

 plants, especially fruitful, and bears its berries often in dense 

 clusters. These berries are gathered b}' the country people, and 

 are preferred in the markets. It offers as a species especial 

 advantages for removal into culture, and it is only necessary to 

 search the places where it grows in order to discover varieties of 



