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The Range of Vaccinium virgatum. — For the last two or 

 three years I have been endeavoring to secure more complete 

 specimens of the different species and forms of blueberries and 

 huckleberries occurring in New Jersey than are usually to be 

 found in herbaria. With this end in view I have marked quite a 

 number of shrubs in different localities, and from them have 

 secured as complete material as possible, my aim being to obtain 

 from the same plant flowers, fruit and both young and mature 

 foliage. Several peculiar forms have been met with and some of 

 the species show an unusual amount of variation. Such forms and 

 variations are now being studied as opportunity offers, but one 

 of the discoveries growing out of the collecting is so interesting 

 that I now wish to call attention to it. 



The interesting discovery referred to is that Vaccinium vir- 

 gatum Ait., which has heretofore been known only from Virginia 

 and southward, is rather common in the pine-barren region of 

 New Jersey. I have specimens from several localities around 

 South Amboy as well as from Tom's River, and there are 

 incomplete specimens from the latter place in the herbarium of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, as also from Staten Island. 



In general aspect the plant has much the appearance of a 

 gigantic Vacciniiim pennsylvanicum Lam., the strongly serrulate 

 leaves and greenish warty branches markedly resembling those 

 of that species. However, its true relationship is with the ex- 

 ceedingly variable Vaccinium corymbosum L. From this the 

 strongly serrulate leaves quickly distinguish it. Dr. Small's 

 recently described Vaccinium simulatnm cannot be confused at 

 flowering time, as it has a short corolla like Vaccinium vacillans 

 Kalm, while our plant has a long corolla like V. corymbosum. 

 Dr. Small's species seems, too, to be more a plant of the moun- 

 tains, and V. virgatu))i to be more a plant of the lowlands. 

 Fruiting specimens of the two species are, however, separated 

 from one another with difficulty. 



The New Jersey form like the southern form develops the 

 earlier flowers (which are usually but little tinged with rose) 

 before the leaves, but many of the flowers remain until after the 

 leaves are nearly fully grown. The pubescence of the young 



