22 ERICACEAE. Vaccinium. 



3 or 4 lines long: berry black, sometimes with a bloom. — Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 12; Andr. 

 Bot. Rep. t. 181 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3522. V. ligustrinum, Pursh, not L. V.fuscatum, Ker. 

 Bpt. Reg. t. 302 (not Ait.), a form with deep rose-colored flowers, and red pedicels and 

 bracts, approaching V. foTmosum. — Swamps, Florida to S. Carolina and Louisiana. 



Var. tenellum,, a low form, mostly small-leaved, with nearly white flowers in shorter 

 or closer clusters : corolla barely 3 lines long and less cylindrical. — V. tenellum. Ait. Kew. 

 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. 260. V. galezans, Michx. Fl. i. 232. V. gali/ormis, Smith in Rees. Cycl.— 

 Virginia to Arkansas and southward. 



Var. parvif olium, a peculiar form, with leaves half to three-fourths inch long, entire 

 or nearly so, mostly oblong and obtuse ; stems tender, 3 to 8 feet high : flowers also small. 

 — V. myHilloides, Ell. Sk. i. 500, not Michx., nor Hook. V. Elliottii, Chapm. 1. c. — S. Caro- 

 lina to Arkansas and Louisiana. An ambiguous form. 



^_ H— Corolla shorter and broader, from ovate-urceolate to at most oblong-campanulate, white or 



obscurely rose-colored. 

 ++ Ovarv and berry glabrous, as in the genus generally : scarious bracts and bractlets early de- 

 ciduous. (Edible JBlueberries or Blue HucKLEBEHRiES.) 



V. Pennsylvanicum, Lam. Dwarf, a span to a foot or more high, with green and 

 warty stems, mostly glabrous, and branches : leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong, green 



■ and somewhat shining both sides, glabrous, or not rarely hairy on the midrib beneath, dis- 

 tinctly serrulate with bristle-pointed teeth : flowers very short-pedicelled : corolla cam- 

 panulate with orifice slightly contracted, barely 2^ lines long : berries ripening early, large 

 and sweet, bluish-black and glaucous. — Diet. i. 72 ; Michx. Fl. i. 223 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3434; Gray, Man. ed. 1, 261. V. myrtilloides, Michx. 1. c. V. tenellum, Pursh, Fl. i. 288, 

 not Ait. V. ramuhsum & V. humile, Willd. Enum. Suppl. 20 ? V. multijiorum, Wats. Dendr. 

 Brit. t. 125 ? — Dry hills and woods, from Newfoundland to Saskatchewan and southward 

 to New Jersey and Illinois ; commoner northward. Tlie lowest and earliest-fruited qf the 

 blueberries. 



Var. angustif olium, Gray, 1. c. ( V. angustifolium, Ait. 1. c), a more dwarf form, a 

 span or less high, with lanceolate leaves. — V. salicinum, Aschers. in Flora, 1860, 319, not 

 Cham. — Labrador and Hudson's Bay, Newfoimdland, and alpine region of the White 

 Mountains of New Hampshire. 



V. Canadense, Kalm. A foot or two high, with branchlets and both sides of the 

 elliptical or oblong-lanceolate entire leaves downy witli soft spreading pubescence : flowers 

 few in the clusters : corolla shorter (2 lines long), greenish-white, and more open-cam- 

 panulate : otherwise as in the preceding. — Richards, in Frankl. ed. 2, 12 ; Hook. Fl. ii. -32, 

 & Bot. Mag. t. 3446. V. album, Lam. 1. c, not L. — Swamps or low woods, Hudson's Bay to 

 Bear Lake and the northern Rocky Mountains, south to N. New England, mountains of 

 Penn. and Illinois. Named by Kalm in herb. Leche, now in herb. Banks. 



V. vacillans, Solander. A foot or a yard liigh, glabrous : branchlets yellowish-green : 

 leaves obovate, oval, or broadly oblong, entire or nearly so, pale or dull, commonly glau- 

 cous, at least beneath : flowers in rather loose clusters : corolla oblong-campanulate or 

 with obscurely narrowed orifice, 2 or 3 lines long, about tlie length of the pedicel : calyx- 

 lobes proportionally large and roundish : berries bluish-black with a bloom, ripening later 

 than the common low blueberries. — Gray, Man. 1. c. ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 445. V. vinjatum, 

 Bigelow, not Ait. V. Pennsi/lranicum, Torr. Fl. N. U. S. i. 416, excl. char., not Lam. — 

 Dry or sandy M-oodlands and rocky places. New England to N. Carolina and Missouri. 

 Flowers generally on the leafless summits of the twigs, more greenish or yellowish than 



, tliose of the next, and apt to be tinged with red. The commoner species of the Northern 

 and Middle States west of the Alleghany Mountains. 



V. corymbosum, L. Tall, 5 to 10 feet high : branchlets yellowish-green turning brown- 

 ish : leaves from ovate or oblong to elliptical-lanceolate: flowers more commonly race- 

 mosely than corymbosely disposed on the naked twigs : corolla from turgid ovate- to 

 cylindraceous-campanulate, 3 or 4 lines long, commonly shorter than the pedicels, 3 or 4 

 times the length of the lax calyx-lobes : berries blue-black with a copious bloom (except 

 in one var.), ripening later than the preceding. — Smith in Rees Cycl. no. 13; Gray, Man. 

 I.e. V. disomorphum, Michx. 1. c. — Swamps and low woods, from Newfoundland and 

 Canada through the Atlantic U. S. to Louisiana, but rare in the Mississippi region. The 

 typical form of this, the common Tall Blueberry or Blue Huckleberry, is minutely 



