HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 659 
Vaccinium myrsinites Lam. Encycl. 1:73. 1789. EVERGREEN BLUEBERRY. 
Ell. Sk.1:494, Chap. Fl. 260. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt.1:21, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia; Florida to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. LowerPineregion. Coastplain. 
Dry sandy pine barrens. Lee County, Auburn (Baker § Earle, 305). Clay, Wash- 
ington, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers pink, March; fruit ripe, May; 
black, insipid. Evergreen, 5 to 10 inches high. Common. 
Type locality: “Cette espéce croit abondamment dans la Floride, aux environs de 
St. Angustin.” 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vaccinium myrsinites glaucum Gray, Syn. F1.N. A. 2, pt. 1:21. 1878. 
PALE EVERGREEN BLUEBERRY, 
Louisianian area. Eastern Louisiana, Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills to Coast Pine belt. Barren rocky hills and dry pine 
barrens, Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Cherty hills of the buhrstone strata, 
Mobile and Baldwin counties, sandy pine ridges. Lee County, Auburn (Zarle). 
Flowers pale pink, April; fruit ripens in June. Not frequent; abundant in some 
localities. Shrub 1 to 1} feet high. 
Type locality: ‘New Orleans ? (Drummond) to Alabama, &¢.” (Evidently wrong). 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vaccinium elliottii Chap. Fl. 260. 1860. ELLIOTT’s BLUEBERRY, 
Vaccinium virgatum var. parvifolium Gray, Syn. Fl.N.A.2, pt.1:22. 1878. 
V. myrtilloides Ell. Sk. 1:500. 1818. Not Michx. 
Ell. Sk.1.c. Chap. Fl.l.c. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1. c. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia; Florida west to eastern Texas and 
Arkansas, 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. In sandy damp ground. Low 
thickets, borders of swampy woods. Cullman County, 800 feet. Low gravelly or 
rocky banks of streams. Lee County, Auburn (Baker § Earle). Monroe County, 
Claiborne. Washington, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers white to pale pink, 
appearing during the first days of spring (February 10) on the naked branches before 
the leaves; fruit ripens May (20) and June; berries shining black, small, sweet, mostly 
single, rarely more than two from the same bud. 
Shrub 6 to 8 feet high, branching from the base, branches green, slender, erect, 
ultimately reclining. The most frequent of the blueberries in the low country, 
frequently forming the boscage along the banks of pine-barren streams. 
Keonomic uses: The berries are sweet and edible. 
Type locality: “‘ River swamps, Florida to South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vaccinium virgatum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2:12. 1789. 
EL. Sk. 1:498, in part? Gray, Man.ed.6, 312. Chap. Fl.ed.3, 283. Gray, Syn. 
Fl. 2, pt.1:21. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia to Florida and eastern 
Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry or damp sandy vopses. Baldwin County, Point 
Clear; open live oak hammocks. Flowers middle of March; mature fruit not seen. 
Shrub 3 to 6 feet high, with slender, erect-spreading branches; not frequent. 
Vaccinium tenellum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2:12. 1789. GALE-LEAF BLUEBERRY, 
Vaccinium virgatum tenellum Gray, Syn. F1L.N. A. 2, pt. 1:22. 1878. 
V. galezans Michx. Fl. 1: 232. 1803. 
Ell. Sk.1:499. Gray, Man. ed.6,312. Chap. FI. 260. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of southern New Jersey to Florida, west 
to Mississippi and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills to Coast plain. Shady banks 
and copses in sandy soil. Lee County, Auburn (Baker §: Earle). Mobile County, 
Citronelle and One-mile Creek. Baldwin County, Montrose. April. 
Low, somewhat decumbent, 1} to scarcely 2 feet high; branchlets brownish-pubes- 
cent, as are the lanceolate, mucronate leaves which are acute at both ends; serru- 
late above the base; from $ to 2 inches long, x3; to 4 inch wide, Flowers in 
subsessile or sessile, mostly umbellate, clusters, corolla ovate to oblong, appearing 
with the leaves. ; Apa ok 
By the above characters readily distinguished from stunted forma of V, elliottii. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Native of North America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. : 
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