VACCINIACEAE. 



Vol. II. 



4. Vaccinium ovalifolium J. E. Smith. 

 Tall or Oval-leaved Bilberry. Fig. 3262. 



Vaccinium ovalifolium J. E. Smith in Rees' Cyclop. 



36: No. 2. 1817. 



A straggling branched shrub, 3°-i2° high, the 

 branches slender; twigs glabrous, jointed, sharply- 

 angled. Leaves oval, or elliptic, short-petioled, 

 glabrous o& both sides, green above, pale and 

 glaucous beneath, rounded at both ends, or some- 

 what narrowed at the base, thin, sometimes 

 mucronulate, entire or very nearly so, i'-2' long; 

 flowers commonly solitary in the axils, on rather 

 short recurved pedicels; calyx-limb slightly 

 toothed; corolla ovoid; stamens 10; berry blue 

 with a bloom, 4"-s" in diameter. 



Woods, Quebec to Michigan, Oregon and Alaska. 

 Also m Japan. June-July. Fruit ripe July-Aug. 



Vaccinium nubigenuM Fernald, of mountain rocks 

 in Quebec, has smaller serrulate elliptic leaves acute 

 at both ends, the corolla urceolate, pink. 



5. Vaccinium pallidum Ait. Pale or 

 Mountain Blueberry. Fig. 3263. 



V. pallidum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: lo. 1789, 

 J'occiniiim coryinbostnn var. pallidum A, Gray, 



Man. Ed. 2, 250. 1856. 

 V. Constablei A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. 42 : 42. 



1842. 



A branching shrub, 2°-8° high, with gla- 

 brous green warty twigs. Leaves oval, ovate 

 or oblong, rather thin when mature, acute or 

 acuminate, narrowed or rounded at the base, 

 short-petioled, glabrous and light green above, 

 pale and slightly glaucous beneath, serrulate, 

 or nearly entire, i'-3' long; flowers several or 

 numerous in the clusters, about equalling their 

 slender pedicels; corolla oblong-cylindric to 

 urceolate, slightly constricted at the throat, 

 greenish-pink, 2."-2\" long, ii"-2" thick; berry blue, 4"-6" in diameter, delicious. 



In woods, mountains of Virginia to South Carolina. Fruit superior to all other blueberries. 

 May-June. Berries ripe July-Aug, 



Vaccinitim simulatum Small, also of the southern mountains, and apparently extending north 

 to New York, differs in having the leaves pubescent on the veins beneath. 



6. Vaccinium corymbosum L. High- 

 bush or Tall Blueberry. Fig. 3264. 



Vaccinium corymbosum L. Sp. PI. 350. 1753. 

 V, amoenum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789. 



A shrub, 6°-i5° high, the twigs terete, 

 minutely warty, greenish-brown, puberulent, 

 or glabrous. Leaves oval or oblong, mostly 

 acute at each end, entire or serrulate, some- 

 times- ciliate, green and glabrous above, 

 paler and often pubescent at least on the 

 veins beneath, short-petioled, l'-3' long, 

 i'-ii' wide; flowers in short racemes, ap- 

 pearing with the leaves, equalling or longer 

 than their pedicels; bracts oblong or oval, 

 deciduous; calyx 5-lobed; corolla cylindric, 

 or slightly constricted at the throat, white 

 or faintly pink, 3"-6" long, l4"-3" thick, 

 S-toothed (rarely 5-lobed) ; stamens 10; 

 berry blue with' a bloom, 3"-4" in diameter, 

 pleasantly acid. 



In swamps, thickets and woods, Maine to Vir- 

 ginia, Quebec, Minnesota and Louisiana, appar- 

 May-June. Fruit ripe July-Aug. Great whortle- 



ently erroneously recorded from farther north. ^ ., r- 



berry. Seedy dewberry Swamp-blueberry. The late market blueberry 



