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Specularia perfoliata. A, DC. (Venus's Looking-glass.) 

 Dry places. Frequent. 



ERICACEAE. 



(Heath Family.) 



Oaylussacia dumosa, Torr. & Gray. 



Lynnfleld (Dr. Chas. Pickering); Gloucester (Mrs. Kettle). 

 Gaylussacia frondosa, Torr. & Gray. (Danglebbery.) 



"Occasional in Lynn" (Tracy); Gloucester (Oakes) ; Magnolia 



Swamp, 1878; Middleton, Wenham Swamp, Amesbury, etc. Not 



very abundant. 

 Gaylussacia resinosa, Torr. & Gray. (Black Hucklebbkky.) 



The market huckleberry. 



Vaccinium Oxyoocous, L. (Small Cranbbrky.) 

 This has been reported in several places, yet no specimens have 

 reached the P. A. S. herbarium. It should be looked for in peat 

 bogs. 



■Vaccinium macrocarpon, AU; (American, ok Lakgb Cran- 

 berry. 



Very common in meadows. The finest locality noticed is a hollow 

 among the dunes on Plum Island. 



Vaccinium Vitis-Idsea, L. (Cowberry.) 



"First noticed by Oakes, in Danvers, about 1820" (Proc. B. I., Vol. 

 I, p. 12). This locality is now exhausted, but Mr. J. H. Sears has 

 found it growing more abundantly at another place. Bigelow (Fl. 

 Bost. 2d ed., 1824), says, "In Lynn, Mr. Oakes;" which is copied 

 into Hitchcock's Cat. An. & PI., Mass. This is of course a mis- 

 take as Oakes' specimens are all from Danvers. It is corrected in 

 the Fl. Bost. 3d ed., 1840. This "is the upland cranberry, whose 

 berries are brought in quantities to the Boston market " (Dr. Chas. 

 Pickering, Chron. Hist. PI., p. 459). 



Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, Lam. (Dwarf Blueberry.) 

 The early blueberry. 



Vaccinium vaoiUans, Solander. (Low Blueberry.) 



Orne's Point, Salem (Dr. Chas. Pickering) ; Kockport, (C. W. Pool) ; 

 Prospect Hill, Peabody; Newbury, Salisbury, etc. Frequent on 

 wooded hills. 



Vaccinium corymbosum, L. (Swamp, or High-bush Blue- 

 berry.) 



The high blueberry varies exceedingly. The one commonly known 

 by the name, being a tall shrub having large berries covered with a 



