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G. fronddsa, Ton. & Gray. Blub Tangle or Dangleberry. 

 Branches diverging, slender ; leaves pale, white beneath ; racemes and 

 pedicels slender ; corolla short ; sweet blue-black fruit with a bloom. N. 

 Eng., S. 



G. resinbsa, Torr. & Gray. Common or Black H. l°-3° high, 

 clammy-resinous when young, with rigid branches, oval leaves, short one- 

 sided racemes in clusters, rather cylindrical corolla, and black fruit with- 

 out a bloom. Woods. 



2. VACCINIUM, BLUEBERRY, CRANBERRY, &c. (Ancient Latin 

 name, of obscure meaning.) (Lessons, Eig. 274.) 



* Earkleberrt and Deerberry ; erect shrubs with single axillary or 

 racemed flowers on slender pedicels, in early summer, open bell-shaped 

 corolla, 10 stamens, anthers with very slender tubes, and 2 awns on the 

 back, and insipid berries ripening late, each of their 5 cells divided in 2, 

 and maturing few seeds. 



V. arbdreum, Marsh. Earkleberrt. Open woods from Va. and S. 

 HI. S. ; 8°-15° high, evergreen far S., with Oval, glossy leaves, anthers 

 included in the 5-toothed, white corolla, and black mealy berries. 



V. stamineum, Linn. Deerberrt or Squaw Huckleberry. 2°-3° 

 high, rather downy, with dull and pale ovate or oval leaves, anthers much 

 longer than the greenish or whitish 6-cleft corolla, and large greenish 

 berries. Me., W. and S. 



* # Evergreen Blueberries of the South, in low pine barrens, pro- 



cumbent or only l°-2° high, with 5-toothed corolla and 10 stamens. 



V. Myrsinltes, Lam. Stems 6'-25' high ; leaves lanceolate or lance- 

 ohovate J'-l' long and mostly pale beneath ; berries black or blue. 



V. crassifdlium, Andr. Stems procumbent, slender ; thick and shin- 

 ing oval or oblong leaves J' or less in length, their margins revolute; 

 globular-bell-shaped corolla ; berries black. 



* * * Blueberries, beyond New England commonly called Huckle- 

 berries, with leaves deciduous at least in the Northern States; flowers 

 in spring in clusters from scaly buds separate from and rather earlier 

 than the leaves ; corolla oblong or short cylindrical, 5-toothed, inclosing 

 the 10 anthers; berries ripe in summer, sweet,blue or black with a bloom, 

 each of the 5 many-seeded cells divided into two. 



V. virgatum, Ait. Low, pubescent ; leaves ovate or cuneate-oblong, 

 acute and minutely serrulate ; flower clusters on naked branches ; corolla 

 rose-color; berry black. S. Car., S. 



Var. tenellum, Gray. Low grounds from Va. S. ; small-leaved, with 

 smaller nearly white flowers in shorter clusters. 



V. Pennsylvanicum, Lam. Dwarf Early Blueberry. Dry or 

 barely moist grounds N.; 6'-15' high, with green, angular branches, 

 mostly lance-oblong leaves, bristly-serrulate and smooth and shining both 

 sides, the sweet berries earliest to ripen. 



V. Canade'nse, Kalm. Taller, l°-2° high, the broader entire leaves 

 and branchlets downy. N. 



V. vacillans, Solander. Low Pale B. Dry woodlands, N., and S. 

 to N. C; 1°~3° high, with yellowish branches, smooth and pale or glau- 

 cous leaves obovate or oval and entire, and berries ripening later than V. 

 Pennsylvanicum. Eruit much prized. 



V. corymb&sum, Linn. Common Swamp B. 3°-10° high, with oval 

 or oblong leaves, either smooth or downy, pale or green, and sweetish 

 berries ripening in late summer ; in one downy-leaved variety, pure black 

 without a bloom. Swamps. Much gathered for market. Very variable. 



