HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF THE GENUS VACCINIUM. I47 



white, campanulate, corolla, the calyx and the dark blue globose 

 fruit, hirsute. (Figured: Gard. and For. 2: 365.) — Mountains 

 of Cherokee County, North Carolina, (Buckley, Sargent) ; Tal- 

 lulah Falls Canon, Georgia, (J. K. Small) ; Cade's Cove Moun- 

 tains, Tennessee, (A. Ruth). 



This species, discovered about 1840 by B. S. Buckley "in the 

 mountains of Cherokee County," North Carolina, was lost sight 

 of for half a century until re-discovered by Sargent at Robbins- 

 ville, Graham County, North Carolina in 1887, when it was 

 transferred to the Arnold Arboretum. Practically nothing is 

 known of its geographical distribution or habitat. It is readily 

 distinguished, however, by the hairy flower and fruit. 



The fruit is describe'd as fully as large as that of Gaylussacia 

 resinosa, shining black, and of an agreeable flavor. Under culti- 

 vation not so densely hairy as in the wild state. Gives promise 

 of being valuable under cultivation as one of the latest of its kind 

 to ripen, — at the Arnold Arboretum the best period of fruitage 

 being the middle of August, berries remaining into September. 

 It is probable that good results might be obtained by hybridizing 

 with V . corymbosum or V. Canadense. 



V. myrtilloides, Hook. (Gray). 



Gray, Man., ed. 5, 291 ; Syn. Fl. 2: 24, not Michx. 



(Synonym: V. membranaceum, Douglas ined.) 

 An erect branching shrub mostly glabrous throughout, the 

 twigs slightly angled ; leaves oval, oblong or ovate, acute, serrate, 

 membranous, green both sides but not shining, 1-2 in. long: 

 calyx entire; corolla depressed-globular, yellowish or greenish 

 white; berries large, oblate, black, rather acid. (Figured: Bot. 

 Mag. t.3447.) Moist woods, Lake Superior to the coast of 

 Oregon and British Columbia. 



The berries are large Yi-Ya inch, oblate, with broad calyx; of 

 excellent flavor; much relished by the natives of the northwest. 

 (Howell, in Case Bot. Index, 1881, 38.) 



V. ovalifolium, Smith. 



Smith, in Rees Cycl. no.- 2, 1817; Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. 2:33. 

 A slender, straggling, branched shrub 3-12 feet high, with 

 slender, more or less angled branchlets ; leaves oval, obtuse, glab- 

 rous, green above, glaucous beneath ; flowers solitary, on short 



