38 MEDICINAL PLANTS 



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

 glaucous, very sweet and well-tasted. 



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

 of the [Iudson. 



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

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



V. Stamineum, 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. 



Vaccinium Oxycoccos, Linn., (Small Cranberry). V. Macro- 

 carpon, 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, Torrey <$f Gray, (Dwarf Swamp Huckle- 

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

 watery and rather insipid. 



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

 bose, sweet and well-flavored. 



G. Resinosa, Torrey <fy Gray, (Black Huckleberry). Fruit slightly 

 acid, but agreeable. 



Same remarks apply f .o these, as to the former species of this escu- 

 lent and healthy fruit. 



Chimaphilla| Umbellata, NatU, (Pipsissewa, 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 uva 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, Pursh, (Spotted Winter Green). Properties simi- 

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

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

 aromatic. 



* From Gay Lussac, the French chemist. 



t From the Greek, chcima, winter, and philco, to love. 



