290 GEOLOGICAL SUEVET OF CANADA. 



349. VACCINIUM, Linn. (BLUEBERRY OR CRANBERRY.) 



(1351.) V. Stamineum, Linn. Deerberry. 

 V. aibum, Pursh. Fl. I., 28, not of Linn. 

 Dry rocks, Thousand Islands in the St. Lawi'ence. (Macoun.) 

 Whirlpool, below Niagara Falls. {Maclagan.) 



(1352.) V. Pennsylvanicum, Lam. Early-fruiting Blueberry. 

 V. tenellum, Pursh. Fl. I., 288. 

 Dry hills and woods and sandy swamps from Newfoundland to the 

 Eocky Mountains. Fruit abundant and valuable. 



Var. angustifolium, Gray. 



Labrador and Hudson Bay, also Newfoundland. (Gray.) Peat 

 bogs, Salt Lake, Anticosti ; top of Mount Albert, Shickshock Moun- 

 tains, Gasp^ ; north-east coast of Lake Superior, above Michipicotin. 

 (Macoun.) Shores of Lake St. John, Q. (J. Bichardscn.) Specimens 

 from Mount Albert are very, haiiy on the midrib and ciliate on the 

 margins. 



(1353.) V. Canadense, Kalm. Canada Bluebeny. 



Very common in swamps and on sandy barrens, especially in the 

 pineries throughout Canada from the Atlantic to the Eocky Mountains 

 and northward to Hudson Bay and Bear Lake. This is pur commonest 

 species and has become quite a valuable fruit since the building of 

 railways into the forest regions of Quebec and Ontario. 



(1354.) V. vacillans, Solander. Low Blueberry. 



Dry sandy woodlands and banks in western Ontario. Near Gi-enadier 

 Pond, Toronto, and along the railway at Port Dover Junction, Ont. 

 (Macoun.) Near the "Waterdown Eoad, Hamilton, Ont. (Jjogie.) 

 Vicinity of Toronto and London. {Burgess.) 



(1355.) V. corymbosum, Linn. Swamp Blueberry. 

 V. dimorphum, Michx. Fl. I., 231. 

 Swamps and low woods from Newfoundland to western Ontario. 

 (Gray.) About Quebec. (Olegkorn.) Lake Huron. (Br. Todd.) 

 Eeported from many points, but varieties not specified. 



Var. amoenum, Gray. 



Eich, wet woods at Bismarck on the Canada Southern Eailway, west 

 of St. Thomas, Ont. (Macoun.) Vicinity of London. (Burgess.) 

 Probably the western or southern form. 



