398 THE HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 



them and moreover, just as fast as I could. The HtUe shrubs were then 

 particularly attractive as the unripe berries were a brilliant red and mingled 

 pleasingly with those of dead black ripeness. And every one of the bushes 

 was fairly loaded with them. Indeed in this neighbourhood thousands of 

 qifarts of the berries are made every year into jellies and jams. They 

 require little sugar for doing up, and so wonderful are the crops that four 

 brimful quarts sell for only about ten cents. 



G.frondbsa, dangle-berry, or blue tangle, inhabits mostly low ground 

 from Florida and Louisiana northward to New England. When in bloom, 

 or showing its small, reddish tinted corolla, its oval or obovate leaves are 

 quite glaucous underneath, and always remain rather pale. The blue ber- 

 ries also are covered with a white bloom turning them in some lights to 

 shades of grey which closely match the twigs, 



G. dumosa, bush huckleberry, grows sometimes rather close to the 

 ground, although usually its branches ascend and it has the appearance of 

 a spreading and dwarfed bush. Of the particularly graceful little flowers 

 the corolla is white, tinted with deep pink or red, and the bracts at the 

 bases of the pedicels are leaf-like and persistent. The small berry is black 

 and quite without a bloom. On moist mountain slopes or in swampy places 

 it is often very common, 



G. resmbsa, high-bush huckleberry, thrives best on dry hillsides. It is 

 Considerably branched, and on nearly all its parts are minute, resinous 

 globules. But a few rather small and reddish flowers grow in the one- 

 sided racemes, while the bracts at their pedicels' bases are small and fall 

 early. Its berries are smooth and black. 



HAIRY HUCKLEBERRY. {Plate CXXX.) 

 Vacci7iiuin hirsutiim. 



Flowers : growing closely in short racemes. Calyx-tiibe : short, rounded, with 

 five teeth, very hairy. Corolla ; bell-shaped, slightly contracted at the apex, with 

 five very short teeth. Stamens : ten. Pistil : one, hairy. Fruit : a dark blue berry 

 covered with hairs. Leaves : growing thickly on the branches and averaging 

 about one and one-fourth inches long ; entire ; ovate or oblong, usually acute at 

 both ends ; thin and covered with a soft, white tomentum. A low shrub, one to 

 two feet high. Stems : somewhat angular, deep reddish or greenish brown and 

 covered with stout hairs. 



After Professor Sargent and Mr, Stiles had left the Keowee River, near 

 where the former had rediscovered shortia, they continued on their way in 

 search of a blueberry recorded to have been found in the mountains of 



