154 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9OI. 



soils in the shade of deciduous trees — particularly black oaks — 

 but will thrive on any good, well drained soil and is a valuable 

 shade-enduring ornamental shrub. 



Var. melanocarpum, Mohr, (Southern Gooseberry, Mohr, 

 Torr. Bui. 24:25, 1897). Shrub 2-3 feet high, branched from 

 near the base; leaves as in the type, flowers in loosely 4-8 

 flowered elongated racemes ; berries twice the size of the typical 

 form, shining black, with a juicy purple pulp, sweetish, with 

 slightly tart pleasant flavor. Rocky shaded hills in the mountain 

 region of central and northern Alabama. (Mohr). 1 



Supplementary List of American Species. 



The following species from various parts of America have been 

 described but as a rule are little known : 



From Mexico: angiistifolium Benth (not Ait.); confertum, 

 H. B. & K. ; cordatumjUemsl. ; eriocladum Dunal; geminiftorum, 

 H. B. & K. ; Kunthianum, Klotzsch ; leucanthemum, Schlecht. ; 

 micranthum, Dunal; Schlechtendallii, G. Don; villosum, Smith. 



From Central America: consanguineum, Klotzsch; pachy- 

 phyllum, Hemsl. ; secundum, Klotzsch. 



From South America ; afhne, Klotzsch ; Alatemoides, H. B. 

 & K. ; caracasaniim, H. B. & K.;didyinanthuni, Dun., (Rusby) 2 ; 

 Horibundum, H. B. & K., (Rusby) ; penceoides, H. B. & K., 

 (Rusby) ; peryiettyoides, Griseb. (Rusby). 



From the West Indies : assimile Wright ; Cubense Griseb. ; 

 meridionale bw ; Poasamnn, Donn. Sm. 3 



THE OUTLOOK. 



As has been shown, the vacciniums are widely distributed, 

 particularly in eastern and northern United States and Canada; 

 and there are vast areas which, while bearing a considerable 

 number of bushes and yielding a profitable return to the few 

 people who make a practice of gathering the wild fruit, are not 

 utilized as they might be. The systematic treatment of the wild 

 lands as described in the foregoing pages might with profit be 

 extended to many other sections. 



There are also large areas, otherwise worthless, which might 



1 Professor Mohr in a personal letter to the •writer states that he will raise this 

 variety to specific rank in a forthcoming work — Alabama Plant Life. 



2 Collected by Plushy, Torr. Bui. 20:13S. 



3 Species described by Donnel Smith in Bot. Gaz. 24:395, 1S97. 



