38 MEDICTXAL PLANTS 



V. Yaccillaxs. (Low Blue Huckleberry). Berries dark blue, 

 glaucous, very sweet and well-tasted. 



V. Uligniosum. (Alpine Bilberry). Berries deep blue ; at sources 

 of the Hudson. 



V. Caxadexse, Kalm. (Black Bilberry). Berries bluish black, 

 sweet and palatable. (Swamps in certain parts of the State.) 



V. Stamixeum, Linn., (Deer Berry, Squaw Huckleberry). Berry 

 large, globose, somewhat pyriform, usually greenish, but sometimes 

 purplish, of a bitterish and somewhat astringent taste, but not unplea- 

 sant when fully ripe. 



All the above species are nutritious and palatable as food, and con- 

 stitute a very healthy article of diet to invalids, either in their fresh 

 state or made into a jelly. 



\ accixium Oxvcoccos, Linn., (Small Cranberry). V. Macro- 

 carpox, Ait., (Common Cranberry). Both of these species are exten- 

 sively used as sauce, and as a nutritious diet and drink in febrile dis- 

 eases. A drink made of cranberry jelly is extremely refreshing and 

 antifebrile. 



Gaylussacia* Hirtella, Torrry <$f Gray, (Dwarf Swamp Huckle- 

 berry). Fruit black and shining when ripe, glandularly pubescent, 

 watery and rather insipid. 



G. Froxdosa. (Blue Tangle, Dangle Berry). Fruit large, glo- 

 bose, sweet and m ell. flavored. 



G. Resixosa, Torrey $ Gray, (Black Huckleberry). Fruit slightly 

 acid, but agreeable. 



Same remarks apjly \o these, as to the former species of this escu- 

 lent and healthy fruit. 



Chimaphillat Fmbellat a. t'ipsissewa, Prince's Pine). A 



well-known evergreen, tonic, diuretic, astringent, antilithic and lithon- 

 thriptic : employed by the Indians in scrofula, rheumatism, and nephritic 

 diseases ; useful in dropsy ; in broken-down habits, its medicinal proper- 

 ties are-similar to those of the nra ursi, adapted to same cases of dis- 

 ease; an excellent tonic in simple debility of digestive organs : good 

 alterative in cutaneous affections and scrofula. 



C. Maculata, Pvrsh, (Spotted Winter Green). Properties simi- 

 lar to the umbellata ; both contain extractive, gum, resin, tannin, saline 

 matters, etc. : hitter, astringent, and sweetish to the taste ; but slightly 

 aromatic 



* From Gay Lussac. the French chemist. 



t From the Greek, cheima. winter, p.nd phileo. to love. 



