WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
High-bush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosuni). Heath 
family. May, June. 
A shrub with maximum height of ten feet, bearing decorative, 
close clusters of small, urn-shaped flowers. The leaves are 
inversely egg-shaped or oval. A noticeable plant of the swamps 
and thickets when in bloom, but not so easily recognized by the 
casual observer as when it is in fruit. Vaccinium is the Latin 
for blueberry, but is used as a generic name to include many 
other species. 
Bog Rosemary (Andromeda glaucophylla) . Heath family. 
May, June. 
A branching shrub generally not over one foot, but sometimes 
two feet high. The flowers are small, round-bell-shaped, nearly 
closed at the end, pink or white in umbel-like clusters, on short, 
stout, curved stalks; ciprolla five-toothed, the calyx five-toothed 
and similarly colored. The thickly set leaves are evergreen, 
long and narrow, stiff, dark-green, with edges rolled back; the 
short fiower-stalks and under side of the leaves are white and 
very finely hairy. Bogs. 
The application of the name is not clear, since Andromeda 
was chained to a rock, not planted in a bog. Gray states that 
the name was fancifully given by Linnaeus. 
Great Laurel (Rhododendron maximum). Heath family. 
June, July. 
A tall shrub bearing flowers with bell-shaped corolla, one 
and one-half to two inches broad. The leaves are several inches 
long, thick, pointed. Damp woods. The Greek name signifies 
rose-tree. 
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