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done flowering), and was in full bloom. It was so distinct in 

 appearance that later in the year I secured fruiting specimens 

 from the same bush. Since 1907 until this year I have not been 

 in the pine-barrens at the proper season to study blue-berries in 

 flower, but this year on May 15 I walked frem Lakewood to 

 Lakehurst especially to study them. The season was fully two 

 weeks ahead of the season of 1907, and I found conditions exactly 

 right for my study. Diligent search around Lakewood did not, 

 however, reveal the plant I was hunting for, and it was not until 

 I had reached the outskirts of Lakehurst that my search was 

 rewarded. Here growing along the edge of the cranberry bog 

 about a quarter of a mile north of the depot more shrubs were 

 found. The result was not unexpected, for a number of plants 

 grow around Lakehurst which do not seem to occur at Lakewood, 

 and it is possible that the plant now under discussion is confined 

 to those pine-barren bogs in which the peculiar white sands 

 noticeable both at Tom's River and Lakehurst form the sub- 

 stratum. 



An investigation of the collections at the New York Botanical 

 Garden showed no flowering specimen of this shrub, but did dis- 

 close fruiting specimens evidently referable to it. Dr. Britton 

 also informed me that he had long believed that the plant repre- 

 sented an undescribed species, but had never been able to secure 

 complete material. 



While an evident ally of V. corymbosum and having blue berries 

 it is quickly distinguished as follows: V. corymhosum has a 

 glistening white or pinkish-tinged conspicuous cylindrical to 

 ovoid urn-shaped corolla 6-12 mm. long and 4-6 mm. wide, and 

 two to three times as long as thick; and, as it occurs in New 

 Jersey, always has some pubescence on the leaf-blades, at least 

 near the base. The plant now under discussion has a dull 

 white urn-shaped corolla 4-6 mm. long and 3-4 mm. wide and but 

 one to two times as long as thick ; and the leaf-blades are entirely 

 glabrous even at flowering time. V. atrococcum with its strongly 

 pubescent foliage, black berries, and greenish-white corolla is 

 quickly separated. This distinct shrub of the pine-barrens is 

 therefore here named and described as follows: 



