210 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
cle of export. Of late years, especially in Massachusetts, attention ga 
iven to the culture of the Cranberry, and it is found to 
profitable SOF upon | otherwise of little ing e calves it 
is found to ituations mu 
ad 
grows in the wild state. Another species, the wll cranberry (V. 
L.), has a much smaller fruit, spotted when young, but is se 
pal fauna in great abundance 
32. Corolla oblong genial or slightly wrn-shaped, 5-toothed ; anthers. 
— ue as harry ; berries blue or black with a bloom, sweet. 
Vv. S rinaarice icum, Lam. Dwarfish; branches yellowish green, 
somewhat warty ; leaves lance-oblong, mucronate-serrulate, smooth and 
shining ; racemes fasciculate. 
Pennsytyanian Vaccinium. Dwarf iad Sugar Huckleberry. 
Stem 6 inches to 2 feet high, much branched ; branches more or Jess angular with a 
green warty bark. Leaves 1 to: near 2 inches long, pee se at each end, nearly sessile, 
isti te, with bristle-pointed teeth. ~ wered, terminal and lateral, 
numerous from bu ade -withiout leavven ant oftetion loalioss branches . pedicels 1-4 lines long, 
small lanceolate at or near the base ; corolla pale red or greenish-w 
i i sweet. 
Hills and woodlands : Pe ennsylvania, northward. Fl. May. Fr. July. 
is is the earliest of tes Blueberries, ripening a fait | in July; : 
it is found compying large patches upon poor and otherwise unproduc- 
tive land. In the state of Maine it is especially dectean a attains 
its on perfection ; we have seen the — bushes actually pros- 
age their load of fruit. ar tiga it is too soft to bear trans 
poral well as some other kinds, the fruit sorte most ae — 
y the pot people of New England for Sanietae consumptio! 
3. V. vaccil’lans, Solander. Low, glabrous ; branches angular, a oa 
leaves obovate or oval, serrulate or entire, smooth on both sides, pale 
or 
Low Blueberry. 
Stem 1-244 feet high ; branches greenish sometimes clouded with purplish, very closely 
set with white dots, sometimes y. Leavesti gehts ¥% inch p Barobay Se. pone obscurely ser- 
te, the serratures more distinct towards the a ar Bot 3 distinct 
he ds; ‘polices chovtie ier he titres eoige vidios deg 3 isaped d with. 
g nts, — white, often tinged with red. Berries large, sweet and 
enn., northward. FT. May. Fr. August. 
h larger plant than ca _preceding spesiog: 90 and 
ished fit: it not only by its greater size, but t by the dull color of its 
‘oliage. The fruit-bearing branches Sees, above those 
leaves, and the hubh x appears leafless towards the sammit. The fruit of. 
this, el as that of the preceding, is sometimes called “ Sugar 
4. V. corymbo’sum, L. Tall; young branches oe ae ae 
