XX]. 1. THE LOW BLUEBERRY. 403 
cylindric, yellowish white, often tinged with red, with spreading 
segments. Filaments shorter and less hairy than in the last. 
This is a common species, growing on high ground and most 
luxuriantly in the openings in rocky woods. The fruit is very 
sweet, the berries large and covered with a light bluish bloom. 
The flowers are much more nichly colored than those of other 
species, and the plant has a more elegant appearance. It is 
distinguished from any variety of the last species, by the veins 
and ribs of its leaves being usually perfectly smooth. It is 
distinguished at once from the next species, by its pale green 
leaves and by being twice as high or more. The fruit-branches 
are two or three inches long or more, without leaves, sometimes 
several together on a stem, so that a large part of the plant 
seems leafless, but covered with fruit. The flowers open in 
May and June; the fruit is ripe in August. 
Sp. 7. ‘Tse Low Brueserry. V. Pennsylvdnicum. Lamarck. 
A very low and much branched undershrub, covering the 
ground in extensive beds, on open, level pastures or in high 
pine woods. The branches are a little angular, with the bark 
of a light green, closely set with white, raised dots, and with a 
hairy line running down on each side. ‘The leaves are sessile, 
oval-lanceolate, acute at both ends, thin, finely serrate, shining 
on both surfaces, with the margin and mid-rib hairy under a 
microscope. ‘The fascicles of flowers are terminal, or on the 
upper part of the branches, while the leaves are below. The 
bracts are often scarlet. The teeth of the calyx are green, acute, 
and spreading; the corolla is white, often with a reddish tinge ; 
style equaling or surpassing the corolla; filaments short, rather 
hairy. The berries are blue, with a glaucous bloom, and very 
sweet. 
From its situation and exposure, the berries ripen earlier than 
those of any other species. They are soft, and easily bruised 
and injured in bringing to market, and liable, when in mass, to 
speedy decay. ‘They are, therefore, less valued in market than 
those of some other species, though they are very delicious and 
not liable to the objection which is made to the black whortle- 
