660 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Vaccinium vacillans Kalm ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. 1:444. 1843. Low BLUEBERRY. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 313. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 633; ed. 3, 283. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, 

 pt. 1 : 22. 



Carolinian area. Ontario, southern New England, west to Michigan to Ohio Val- 

 ley, Missouri, and along the mountains to North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Woodlands, open copses and in rocky or sandy soil. 

 Cullinan County, 800 feet altitude. Lee County, Auburn (Maker <$ Earle). Flowers 

 greenish yellow, calyx tipped with red. April; fruit ripe in August. Low, 6 to 8 

 inches high. Not rare. 



Economic uses : The fruit is edible. 



Type locality: "Dry hills and open woods, common. Middle States." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vaccinium corymbosum L. Sp. PL 1: 350. 1753. COMMON BLUEBERRY. 



Vaccinium, disomorphum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 231. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 498. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 313. Chap. Fl. 260, in part. Gray, Syn. Fl. X. A. 

 2, pt. 1:22. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario; New Eng- 

 land west to Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas; south along the mountains to 

 Georgia, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Copses and open woods. Clay County, Che-aw-ha 

 Mountain, near the waterfall and Pulpit Rock, 2,200 feet. Cullnian County, 850 feet. 

 Winston County, 1,200 feet. Lee County, Auburn ( Baker ijr Earle). Flowers in April ; 

 Iruit matures in September, not seen. Local and infrequent. 



Economic uses: The fruit is the common blueberry. 



Type locality : " Hah. in America septentrionali. Kalm.' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Herb. Mohr. 

 Vaccinium corymbosum amoenum (Ait.) Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 23. 1878. 



Vaccinium amoenum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 12. 1789. 



Near to type; a lower shrub ; flowers in dense clusters on naked branches, reddish, 

 appearing with the leaves; leaves while young pubescent, lanceolate, lat-r broadly 

 ovate to ovate- lanceolate, serrate-ciliate, the teeth appressed, pubescent on the mid- 

 rib, glabrous, shining, green on both sides. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 313. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Along the coast from New Jersey to Florida. 



ALABAMA : Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Shaded banks in damp soil. Mobile 

 County, Mount Vernou, near David's Lake; Three-mile Creek. Flowers April 10; 

 fruit matures in June. Not common. 



Type locality : " Native of North America." 



Herb. Geol Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vaccinium fuscatum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 11. 1789. Fuscous BLUEBERRY. 



Vaccinium corymbosum fuscatum Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 23. 1878. 



Ell. 8k. 1:499. Gray, 1. c. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Central Prairie region to Coast Plain. Shaded dry sandy banks of 

 streams and near swamps. Autauga County, Prattville. Baldwin County, live oak 

 hammock near Zundels. Flowers in March ; fruit not seen. 



Shrub, with straggling branches, 2 to 4 feet high, the branches fuscous-pubescent; 

 leaves distichous, with a fuscous pubescence beneath. Identical with the species 

 in the Gray Herbarium marked '- Mobile, 1839." 



Type locality : u Native of North America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vaccinium pallidum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 10. 1789. MOUNTAIN Bn KBEKRY. 



Vaccinium corymbosum pallidum Gray, Man. ed. 5, 292. 1867. 



V. constablaei Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. 13 : 42. 1841. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 313. Chap. Fl. 260. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 23. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. West Virginia to North Carolina, along the 

 higher ranges of the Alleghenies. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Dekalb County, summit of Lookout Mountain, 2,000 

 feet. Cullmau County, highest ridges 1,000 feet. 



Type locality: "Native of North America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



