HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF THE GENUS VACCINIUM. 



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V. corymbosum, L. (High-bush Blueberry, Swamp Huckleberry) 



Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 350, 1753. 



(Synonym: V. disomorphum, Michx., Fl. Bor. Am. 1 '.223.) 

 A tall, straggling- shrub 4-12 feet high, with yellowish-green, 

 warty, branchlets which later turn brownish ; leaves ovate or 

 oblong to elliptical-lanceolate, usually entire ; flowers in short 

 racemes on naked twigs ; corolla ovate to urn-shaped, or oblong- 

 cylindrical, white or pinkish'; berries blue-black with much 

 bloom, of excellent flavor. (Figured: Emerson, Trees and 



V. CORYMBOSUM. 



Shrubs, ed. 5, 2:454; Am. Ag. 1886, 364.) — Moist woods or 

 swamps, Newfoundland and Canada to Michigan and Minne- 

 sota; through eastern United States to Louisiana; rather rare 

 in the Mississippi valley. Exceedingly variable, and numerous 

 gradations unite the several varieties. 



