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Specularia perfoliata, A. DC. (VENuS’s LOOKING-GLASS.) 
Dry places. Frequent. 
ERICACEZ. 
(HeatH Famiy.) 
Gaylussacia dumosa, Torr. & Gray. 
Lynnfield (Dr. Chas. Pickering) ; Gloucester (Mrs. Kettle). 
Gaylussacia frondosa, Torr. € Gray. (DANGLEBERRY.) 
**Occasional in Lynn” (Tracy); Gloucester (Oakes); Magnolia 
Swamp, 1878; Middleton, Wenham Swamp, Amesbury, etc. Not 
very abundant. 
Gaylussacia resinosa, Torr. é Gray. (BLack HUCKLEBERRY.) 
The market huckleberry. 
Vaccinium Oxycoccus, LZ. (SMALL CRANBERRY.) 
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, Ait. (AMERICAN, OR LarRGE CRAN- 
BERRY. 
Very common in meadows. - The finest locality noticed is a hollow 
among the dunes on Plum Island. 
Vaccinium Vitis-Idea, Z. (CowsBerry.) 
‘¢ First noticed by Oakes, in Danvers, about 1820” (Proc. E. I., Vol. 
I, p. 12). This locality is now exhausted, but Mr. J. H. Sears has 
found it growipg more abundantly at another place. Bigelow (FI. 
Bost. 2d ed., 1824), says, ‘‘In Lynn, Mr. Oakes;” which is copied 
into Hitchcock’s Cat. An. & Pl., 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. Pl., p. 459). 
Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, Zam. (Dwarr BLUEBERRY.) 
The early blueberry. 
Vaccinium vacillans, Solander. (Low BLUEBERRY.) 
Orne’s Point, Salem (Dr. Chas. Pickering) ; Rockport, (C. W. Pool); 
Prospect Hill, Peabody; Newbury, Salisbury, etc. Frequent on 
wooded hills. 
Vaccinium corymbosum, LZ. (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 
