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rather long, straight and stout, and strongly spreading. The 
upper surface of the leaf is glabrous but not shining. The 
berries are either bright-blue or nearly black, but never in the 
least shiny. 
Number 3 differs from the two preceding in having the leaf 
margin entire or obscurely denticulate, and ciliate with fine 
soft hairs. The lower surface is only slightly pubescent on the 
veins. This is rather scarce and is perhaps the nearest approach 
to the typical form. 
Numbers 4 and 5 represent the var. amoenum of Gray’s 
Manual, the leaves being of a bright-green color on both sur- 
faces. Number 5 has both surfaces glabrous and the margins 
sharply serrate with bristle-pointed teeth. In number 4, there 
is a slight pubescence on the lower surface and the margin is 
practically entire. This variety amoenum is probably the 
predominant high bush blueberry of the region, although the 
plants are often only two or three feet high and widely spreading. 
Its berries are very large and fine, of a bright-blue color, and it 
is the favorite form of fruit-gatherers. 
Number 6 agrees with the scanty description of var. pallidum 
found in Gray’s Manual. It is a very distinct form and is 
quite abundant. The shrub is very tall and rather strict and 
contracted. The branchlets and leaves incline to an erect 
position, the latter being thick, rigid, elongated, and large, 
tapering to both ends, the margin quite entire, both surfaces 
smooth and the lower glaucous. The berries incline to an 
elongated form, with large calyx lobes, and are very glaucous. 
Quite often they are smaller and dryer than in the other high 
bush forms. 
Number 7 differs from Number 6 in having a few stiff hairs on 
the veins beneath and the margin bristly serrate. The lower 
surface is quite glaucous, although this docs not show very 
well in the dried specimen. 
V. ATRococcuM (Gray) Heller. This, although very variable, 
is a well-marked species. It seems to me to hybridize with 
others but even in the hybrids its own character is always strongly 
apparent. The shrub may be quite as tall as any form of V. 
