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der the name of “rabbit-eye huckleberry.” On account of the 
large size of the fruit and its fine flavor it seems to be a most de- 
sirable sort for cultivation on the sandy soils of the coastal plains 
region. The fruit ripens somewhat irregularly, however. 
This plant is most closely related to Vaccinium fuscatum, Ait. 
(Hort. Kew. I, 2:11. 1789) of the same general region, from 
which it may be separated when in flower by the white corolla 
with narrower tube much constricted at the mouth, and when in 
foliage by the serrulate leaves usually less pubescent, while in win- 
ter the flattened twigs nearly or quite glabrous are distinctive. The 
flowers of V. fuscatum are decidedly red or reddish; its leaves 
are essentially entire and as a rule much more pubescent. Its fruit 
is acid. In West Florida it is known as sourberry. 
The type material collected by W. W. Ashe near Niceville, 
Okaloosa County, Fla., consisting of both flowers, March 26, 
1927, and fruit, June 2, 1929, from the same plant, is in the Ashe 
herbarium, Co-type specimens in fruit are being deposited in the 
herbarium of the University of Georgia and in the National her- 
barium. 
We are indebted to Mr. W. W. Ashe for the recognition and 
delineation of this species. His well preserved specimens and care- 
ful field notes are made from abundant material. Additional speci- 
mens examined—all collected by him—are as follows: 
Florida—Niceville, Juniper Bayou, June 10, 1929; Lightwood- 
knot Ck., Okaloosa Co., June 8, 1929: Rocky Run, Walton Co. 
March 23, 1927 and June 7, 1929; Walton Co., March 26, 1927 
and June 7, 1929; Camp Walton, Okaloosa Co., March 25, 1927 
and June 8, 1929; Hollyhead, Santa Rosa Co., June 8, 1929; 
near Valparaiso, Okaloosa Co., 1927; Alaqua Ck., Walton Co., 
March 26, 1927 and June 7, 1929; near Pensacola, Escambia 
Co., March 27, 1927 ; near Taylor, Baker Co., February 19, 1929 
and May 11, 1929, 
_ Mississippi—McNeill, May 8, 1930; near Poplarville, Pearl 
River County, May 8, 1930. 
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