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its contracted panicle, often bracteolate peduncles, and always 

 ciliate ligules. It is possible that the bulk of our British plants 

 may stand between H. cacuminatum and H. sciaphilum. 



Var. barbare^folium (Lonnr.) Dahlst. Bidrag iii. 152, C. xii. 

 (1900), No. 82; Exsicc. ii. No. 71, iv. No. 88. Differs from the 

 type by its stem-leaves being narrower, lanceolate, + sharply longly 

 and unequally pinnatifid-dentate at base ; by its broader efloccose 

 phyllaries, with shorter stouter glands. 



West Gloucester, 1905 ; exactly corresponding with the Scandi- 

 navian type ! Hereford. Brecon, W. B. Linton, 1902! Glamorgan, 

 Riddelsdell, 1901 ! Derby, W. R. Linton, 1893 ! 



H. ornatum Dahlst. Bidrag iii. 167 ; Exsicc. ii. No. 81 ; Herb. 

 Hier. Scand. ii. Nos. 69, 70. Stem 15-80 inches high, thick hairy 

 floccose above. Leaves ± dark-spotted ; root-leaves oval-oblong 

 to broadly lanceolate, much toothed with the teeth sharp, hairy on 

 both sides, shaggy beneath and on the narrowly winged petioles. 

 Stem-leaves 3-5, ovate-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, sharply and 

 unequally serrate-dentate below, often subulate-dentate above, acute, 

 hairy. Peduncles white tomentose, glandular ; panicle often um- 

 bellate-branched, with arcuate branches exceeding the acladium. 

 Heads dark, rather elongate ; phyllaries rather broad, obtuse except 

 the innermost, very floccose-edged, senescent, with numerous long 

 and short glands ; style very dark. 



Hills above Bethesda, Carnarvon, W. R. Linton. " A form 

 approaching 77. ornatum , M Dahlstedt, in litt. 



"HUCKLEBEBRY'' AS AN ENGLISH PLANT-NAME. 



In the article on the Botany of Buckinghamshire which recently 

 appeared in the " Victoria " history of the county, I used the above 

 name to designate Vaccinium Myrtilhis, as it is one which I have 

 heard used in that county for half a century. The employment of 

 the word as an English plant-name having been challenged, it niay 

 be well to give reasons to support its use in the above work. I 11 

 The New English Dictionary Dr. Murray gives no British refer- 

 ence for the word, but cites several from North American sources, 



the earliest being that from D. Denton's Description of New York 

 (1670)—" The Fruits natural to the Island are Mulberries, Posi- 

 mons, Grapes great and small, Huckelberries." In 1751 J. Bar- 

 tram, the correspondent of Dillenius, writes (Obs. Trav. Fennsyl^ 

 p. 18) : " The land hereabouts is middling white oak and huckle- 

 berry land.'* 



Hitherto— with the exception of Prior, who is not a reliable 

 authority (Popular Xames of British Plants, ed. 3, p. 128), who 

 says: " Hurtle-berry, Huckleberry, corruption of Whortle-berry, 

 itself a corruption of Myrtle-berry "— no other author has used the 

 name for our British plant. 



The area where the name Huckleberry is used to designate 

 Vaccimvm Myrtillus is that portion of heathy country which is 



