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Albino forms of certain species — as V. J\lyrtillns — were early 

 observed. Dodoens, in 1578, mentions "some that beare white 

 Berries when they be rype, howbeit they are but seldome seen."^ 

 White fruits are catalogued by Ruppius in Flora Jenensis in 

 1726, and were found by Gmelin in Siberia in 1768.- In 1854, 

 John Booth of Floetbeck nursery, near Hamburg, Germany, 

 offered for sale plants of a white fruited form of V. Myrtillus 

 which had been obtained from the Black Forest.' A white 

 fruited form of J'itis-Idcra is also noted as occurring at Lyng- 

 dalen in the province of Christiansand in 1 761.* 



'u'.,:x^iiUl'JiVJ!M^j~M '-■- 



V. PEN^NSYLVAXICUM, ALBINO. 



White fruited forms of Pciinsylvaiiiaim and corymbosum 

 have been observed by the writer ; white vacillans is reported in 



^ Lyte's Dodoens BTO. 



' Cited by Sturtevant, Trans. Mass. Hort. Soo. 1890, 3.5. 



' London, Arb. et Fruit. 2:1157. 



4F1. Dan. 1:9. 



