HUCKLEBERRIES AND BLUEBERRIES. 29 



reports, hold them in esteem, yet they are believed there, as among 

 the mountaineers of Switzerland, the Jura, and Thuringia, to 

 promote intoxication. Pursh says the blueish black berries are 

 eatable ; Richardson that beyond the Arctic circle the fruit in 

 good seasons is plentiful to an extraordinarj' degree, and is of 

 finer quality than in more southern localities. The western 

 Eskimos, according to Seemann, collect the berries and freeze for 

 winter use. 



This fruit is called Bog Bilberry by Richardson ; Bog or Great 

 Bilberry by Miller, Mawe and Don. Greater Bill-berr}' by Du 

 Roi. In Germany Drunkelbeeren, Dunkelbeeren, Drumpelbeeren, 

 Rauschbeeren, Grosse Heidelbeeren, Rosbeeren, Bruchbeeren, 

 Krackbeeren, Jugelbeeren, Moosheidelbeeren, Ruhthecker, accord- 

 ing to Du Roi. Gmelin gives the Russian names as Pjaniza, 

 Oolubiza, Golubel, and Gonobobel. 



IS, Vaccinium vacillans, Solander. Gray, Man., ed. 1, 261 ; 



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

 Fl. N. Y., i, 445. 

 Synonyme, Vaccinium virgatum, Bigel., Fl. Bost., 152, not Ait. 

 " " Pennsylvanicum, Torr., Fl., i, 416, not 



Lam. 



Dry and sandy woodlands and rocky places, New England to 

 North Carolina and Missouri. 



Bigelow describes the berries as large, covered with a blue 

 powder, ver}' sweet. The quality is excellent, and they ripen 

 somewhat later than some of the other species. This seems to be 

 one of the species which are deserving of cultural attempts, ag 

 the plant is somewhat taller growing than V. Pennsylvanicum ^ 

 Lam. 



Torrey in 1843 uses for names the Low Blue Huckleberry and 

 the Sugar Huckleberry. Emerson in 1875 calls it the Blue Huc- 

 kleberry, while Low Blueberry is used by Gray in 1867, Robinson 

 in 1880, and Dame and Collins, 1888. 



14. Vaccinium Vitis- Idcea, Jj. Fl. Dan., t. 40; Lodd., Bot. 



Cab., t. 616 ; Gray, Syn. Fl., 2, 



1, 25. 

 Synonyme, Vaccinium punctatum. Lam. 



Round the Arctic Circle, Europe, Asia, Greenland to Japan ; 



