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Blue-tangles. Blue-huckle-berries. 



About three or four feet high. Flowers small, white, nearly 

 round. Berries covered with a bluish or glaucous coat ; escu- 

 lent and agreeable, and brought in profusion to our markets. 

 They do not keep long after being plucked, and are liable to 

 have worms or the larvae of insects in them. In open woods 

 of Jersey, also very common. \ . May, June. 



resinosum. 4. V. leaves slenderly petiolate, oblong-oval, and 

 generally obtuse, muticate, very entire, sprink- 

 led with resinous particles underneath ; racemes 

 lateral, leaning one way, pedicels short, sub- 

 bracteolate, corollas ovate-conic, pentagonal. — 

 Willd. and Pursh. 

 Andromeda baccata, Wangh. am. (Pursh.) 



Clammy Whortle-berry. Black JFhortle-berry, 



This species varies in the colour of the corolla, being yel- 

 lowish, red and greenish, occasionally. The most prevailing 

 colour is red. Berries black, esculent. From three to four feet 

 high, with the flowers appearing, generally, when the leaves 

 are very small. Very common in Jersey and Pennsylvania, in 

 underwood and among wild shrubbery, in exposed situations. 

 \ . April, May. 



crtiymbosum. 5. V. flower-bearing branches nearly leafless ; 

 leaves oblong-oval, acute at each end. Mucro- 

 nate, nearly entire ; the younger ones every 

 where pubescent, sub-tomentose beneath; the 

 old ones glabrous above, the veins and nerves 

 beneath, pubescent ; racemes short, sessile, sca- 

 ly-bracteate ; corollas cylindric-ovate ; calices 

 erect,- style subexserted. — Willd. and Pursh. 



V. amoenum, Ait. 



V. disomorphum, Mich. 



V. album, Lamark. 



Svjamp Whortle-berry. Bilberry. Blue-berry. 



A large shrub, from five to eight feet high. Flowers white. 

 Berries black. Commonly known, and vended by hucksters^ 

 under the name of swamp-huckle-berries. Grows in swamps 

 and boggy ground, Jersey. Common. I2 • «J UQ e. 



