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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 larvse of insects in. them. In open woods 
of Jersey, also very common. I2 . May, June. 
xesmosum. 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, pentagonak-*- 
Willd. and Furslu 
Andromeda baccata, Wangli, am, (Pursh.) 
Clammy Whortle-ierry. Black fVhortle-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. 
h . April, May. 
eopyuibosum. 5. V. flower-bcariug branches nearly leafless f 
leaves oblong-oval, acute at each end. Macro- 
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. — TFilld. and Furslu 
V. amoenum. Ait. 
V. disomorphum, Mich, 
V. album, Lamark. 
Srvamp Whortle-herry. 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 . June. ’ 
