494 VACCINIACEAE 



Leaves pubescent beneath at least when young. 

 Leaves entire-margined. 

 Leaves spinulose-ciliate. 

 Low shrubs, mostly less than 6 dm. high. 

 Leaves green on both sides. 



Leaves densely pubescent beneath. 

 Leaves glabrous, or sparingly pubescent on the veins 

 beneath. 

 Leaves pale and glaucous, at least beneath. 



Leaves pale on both sides; mature fruit black. 

 Leaves pale beneath; mature fruit blue. 



i. V. corymbosum L. In swamps and wet woods: Newf. to Va., 

 Minn, and La. 



Common throughout the range. 



2. V. vicinum Bicknell. E. Mass. to N. J. 



Known only from the coastal plain of L. I. and N. J. 



3. V. caesariense Mackenzie. Bogs: L. I. (?) and N. J. to Fla. 



N. Y. Apparently on L. I. 



N. J. Rare in the pine-barrens in Ocean, Burlington and Atlantic 

 counties; a single station at Five-Mile Beach along the coast, and 

 one station near Woodbury, Camden Co.; otherwise unknown 

 from the area. 



Pa. Reported from Chester Co. 



4. V. atrococcum (A. Gray) Heller. In swamps and wet woods: 



N. B. and Ont., to N. J., Pa. and Ala. 



Throughout the range, decreasing northward, and more common 

 southward than elsewhere. 



5. V. atlanticum Bicknell {? V. amoenam Ait.). In swamps: E. 



Mass. to N. Y. and N. J. 



Conn. Presumably recorded as V. corymbosum amoenum. 

 N. Y. Coastal plain of L. I., S. I., and near West Point. 

 N. J. Coastal plain, and in LInion Co. 

 Has been referred to V. virgatum Ait. 



6. V. canadense Richards. In moist places: Lab. to the N. W. 



Terr., Va., 111. and Mich. 



Conn. Near Salisbury, Litchfield Co. 



N. Y. The mountains of Ulster, Delaware, Greene and Sullivan 



counties. 

 Pa. Monroe and Northampton counties. 



