HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 659 



Vacciiiium myrsinites Lam. Encycl. 1 : 73. 1789. EVERGREEN BLUEBERRY. 



Ell. Sk. 1:494. Chap. Fl. 260. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 :21. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia; Florida to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. Lower Pine region. Coastplain. 

 Dry sandy pine barrens. Lee County, Auburn ( Baker <$ Earle, 305). Clay, Wash- 

 ington, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers pink, March; fruit ripe, May; 

 black, insipid. Evergreen, 5 to 10 inches high. Common. 



Type locality : " Cette espece crolt abondamment dans la Floride, aux environs de 

 St. Angustin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Vacciiiium myrsinites glaucum Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1: 21. 1878. 



PALE EVERGREEN BLUEBERRY. 



Louisianiau area. Eastern Louisiana, Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Metamorphic hills to Coast Pine belt. Barren rocky hills and dry pine 

 barrens. Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Cherty hills of the buhrstone strata. 

 Mobile and Baldwin counties, sandy pine ridges. Lee County, Auburn (Earle). 

 Flowers pale pink, April; fruit ripens in June. Not frequent; abundant in some 

 localities. Shrub 1 to 1 feet high. 



Type locality : "New Orleans ? (Drummond) to Alabama, &c." (Evidently wrong). 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vacciiiium elliottii Chap. Fl. 260. 1860. ELLIOTT'S BLUEBERRY. 



Vacciiiium virgatum var. parvifolium Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 22. 1878. 



V. myrtiUoide's Ell. Sk. 1 : 500. 1818. Not M'ichx. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 1. c. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1. c. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia; Florida west to eastern Texas and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. In sandy damp ground. Low 

 thickets, borders of swampy woods. Cullmaii County, 800 feet. Low gravelly or 

 rocky banks of streams. Lee County, Auburn (Baker tf- Earle). Monroe County, 

 Claiborne. Washington, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers white to pale pink, 

 appearing during the first days of spring (February 10) on the naked branches before 

 the leaves ; fruit ripens May (20) and June ; berries shining black, small, sweet, mostly 

 single, rarely more than two from the same bud. 



Shrub 6 to 8 feet high, branching from the base, branches green, slender, erect, 

 ultimately reclining. The most frequent of the blueberries in the low country, 

 frequently forming the boscage along the banks of pine-barren streams. 



Economic uses: The berries are sweet and edible. 



Type locality : " River swamps, Florida to South Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Vacciiiium virgatum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 12. 1789. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 498, in part? Gray, Man. ed. 6, 312. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 283. Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. 2, pt.l:21. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia to Florida and eastern 

 Louisiana. -. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry or damp sandy copses. Baldwin County, Point 

 Clear; open live oak hammocks. Flowers middle of March; mature fruit not seen. 



Shrub 3 to 6 feet high, with slender, erect-spreading branches; not frequent. 



Vaccinium tenellum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 12. 1789. GALE-LEAF BLUEBERRY. 



Vacciiiium virgatum tenellum Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 22. 1878. 



V. f/alezans Michx. Fl. 1 : 232. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1:499. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 312. Chap. Fl. 260. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of southern New Jersey to Florida, west 

 to Mississippi and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills to Coast plain. Shady banks 

 and copses in sandy soil. Lee County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle). Mobile County, 

 Citronelle and One-mile Creek. Baldwin County, Montrose. April. 



Low, somewhat decumbent, 1| to scarcely 2 feet high ; branchlets brownish-pubes- 

 cent, as are the lanceolate, mucronate leaves which are acute at both ends ; serru- 

 late above the base; from f to 2 inches long, t % to ^ inch wide. Flowers in 

 subsessile or sessile, mostly umbellate, clusters, corolla ovate to oblong, appearing 

 with the leaves. 



By the above characters readily distinguished from stunted forms of V. elliottii. 



Type locality : " Native of North America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



