HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF THE GENUS VACCIN1UM. 



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Low shrub, similar to / \ 

 Pennsylvanicum and often 

 associated with it. Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate to obovaic, 

 finely serrulate, green above, 

 pale and glaucous beneath ; 

 flowers few in the clusters, 

 white or cream colored, ap- 

 pearing earlier than those of 

 Pennsylvanicum / berries 



rather small, black without 

 bloom. {Figured: (photo.) 

 Rep. Maine Exp. Sta., 1898, 

 171.) — Dry rocky soil, 

 Maine to New Jersey, west- 

 ward to Michigan. 



The species is distin- 

 guished from the preceding 

 by the glaucous under sur- 

 faces of the leaves and by the 

 characteristic shining, black 

 fruit. It is usually found in 

 colonies in the same situa- 

 tions as Pennsylvanicum ; 

 but occasionally the two 

 species will be found intermingled. 



V. NIGRUM. 



V. Canadense, Richards. (Canada Blueberry) 



(Named by Kalm in Herb Leche, now in Herb Banks ; Ricii- 

 ardson, in Frankl. 1st Jour. ed. 2, App. p. 12; Hooker, Fl. Bor. 

 Am. 2:32. Synonym: V. album, Lam. Encyc. 1:73, not L. ) 



Erect shrubs, 1-2 feet high, the crowded branchlets downy- 

 pubescent; leaves oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, entire, downy 

 both sides ; corolla short, open-campanulate, greenish-white, 

 often tinged with red ; berries globose or oblate, blue with much 

 bloom, of excellent flavor. (Figured: Bot. Mag. t.3446.) — 

 Low woods, Hudson's Bay to Bear Lake and the northern Rocky 

 Mountains ; south to New England, mountains of Pennsylvania 

 and Illinois. 



