HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY 



DWARF BILBERRY 



Vaccinium ccespitbsum. 



A low much branched shrub, three to seven inches high ; 

 found on the summits of the White Mountains. Ranges from 

 Labrador westward through subarctic America to Alaska, south 

 in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 



Leaves. Obovate, one-half to one inch long, wedge-shaped 

 at base, serrulate with small blunt teeth, obtuse or acute at apex, 

 nearly sessile, shining green above and beneath. In autumn the 

 leaves fall early. 



Flowers. June, July. White or pink bells ; mostly solitary 

 in the axils of the leaves ; calyx five or four-toothed ; corolla 

 obovoid or oblong-obovoid, pink or white, five, rarely four- 

 toothed ; stamens ten, rarely eight. 



Fruit. Berry, globular, blue with a bloom, sweet, about one- 

 fourth of an inch in diameter. August. 



BOG BILBERRY. BOG WHORTLEBERRY 



Vaccinium uliginbsum. 



A low, stiff, much branched 

 shrub, six to twenty-four inches 

 high. Found on the summits of the 

 high mountains of New England 

 and New York mainly above the 

 timber line, along the shore of Lake 

 Superior and northward to Alaska. 

 Also found in northern Europe and 

 northern Asia. 



Leaves. Oval, obovate or ob- 

 long, one-half to one inch long, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, entire, ob- 

 tuse or retuse, nearly sessile; when 



Bog Bilberry, Vaccinium uliginomm, ^11 grOWll thick, bright green above, 



in flower. dull, pale, or glaucous beneath. 



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