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10. Vaccinium salicinum, Cham. Spreng., Syst. Cur. Post., 



147, and Linnaea, i, 525 (not 

 Aschers., I. c.) ; Gray, Syn. Fl., 2, 

 1, 23. 



Found by Chamisso at Unalaschka, in moss. 

 Pickering gives this species among the edible berries collected 

 and dried by the natives of north-west America. 



11. Vaccinium stamineum, L. Andr., Bot. Rep.,t. 263 ; Gray,. 



Syn. FL, 2, 1, 21. 

 Synonyme, Vaccinium elevatum, Soland. Dunal in D. C. Prod., 



VII, 567 (excl. var.). 

 " " album, Pursh, Fl. 1, 284, not L. 



Dry woods, Maine to Michigan and south to Florida and Louis- 

 isiana ; rare west of the Alleghanies. 



The berries are described by Pursh as green, or white when 

 perfectly ripe. Gray says they are large, pear-shaped or globu- 

 lar, mawkish. Elliot that they are eaten. Another authoritj''® 

 says they are an agreeable fruit, growing in Wisconsin and Michi- 

 gan, of which the Indians make extensive use. 



Pursh and Gray give the vernacular name Deerberry ; Clay- 

 ton" calls them Goose-berrys ; in Michigan and Wisconsin'* they 

 are known as Squaw Huckleberries. 



12. Vaccinium uliginosum, Jj. Fl. Dan.,t. 581; Reichenb., 



Ic. Germ., XVII, t. 1168; 

 Gray, Syn. Fl., 2, 1, 23. 

 Synonyme, Vaccinium pubescens, Hornem., Fl. Dan., t. 1516. 

 " " gaultherioides, Bigel. 



Europe, Asia, Arctic America to the alpine regions of the 

 mountains of New England, New York, and shore of Lake Supe- 

 rior, westward to Oregon and Alaska. 



Don describes the berries as large, juicy, black, covered with a 

 mealy bloom, eatable but not either very grateful or wholesome. 

 Aspelin says they are eaten in Sweden by children and Guinea 

 hens, but that they often induce trembling. Lamarck says they 

 are of agreeable savor. Some of the Siberian tribes, as Gmelin 



le U. S. Dept. Agr. Rept., 1870, 415. " Gron., Virg., 1762, 60. 



