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On gravelly hills near the Housatonic River in Pittsfield, where glacial 
drift overlies the limestone. 
V. canadense Kalm. — Swamps and upland woods; common on 
Greylock and on the plateau as far south as Washington and Becket. 
Occurs also on The Dome, Sheffield, and on the adjoining mountain 
mass. A specimen collected by Churchill in a bog in Lanesboro has 
practically glabrous leaves. Lowest altitude 1150 feet, swamp on the 
divide between Pittsfield and Cheshire. 
V. corymbosum L. High-bush Blueberey. — Common in 
hillside pastures on the plateau; frequent in the valley in swamps and 
on the borders of ponds, absent from calcareous soil, except where 
glacial drift overlies thickly the limestone. 
var. amoenum (Ait.) Gray. — Savoy (altitude 2000 feet); woods, 
Mt. Washington (Churchill). 
var. pallidum (Ait.) Gray. — With the type; occasional. Lenox; 
Stockbridge; New Marlboro; Great Barrington; West Stockbridge 
(Evans, Fernald and Knowlton). 
V. macrocarpon Ait. Cranberry. — (Oxycoccus macrocarpus 
111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
Bogs; frequent. Occasional on wet roadsides on the plateau. 
V. Oxycoccos L. Small Cranberry. — {Oxycoccus Oxycoccus 
111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
Bogs; occasional on the plateau. Savoy; Becket; New Marlboro 
(Walters) ; Sandisfield. 
var. ovalifolium Michx. — (var. {ntcrmedium Man. ed. 7; vid. 
Rhodora, 11: 54, 1009.) 
Peat bog, Sheffield. 
V. pennsylvanicum Ivam. Low Blueberry. — ( V. angxisti- 
follum 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
Open woods and pastures, rocky summits; common except in cal- 
careous soil. Occasional on limestone cobbles and in calcareous 
meadows. 
var. myrtilloides (Michx.) Fernald. — Leaves and young twigs 
pilose; leaves with bristle-tipped teeth. Distinguished from V. 
canadense by the bristle-tipped teeth of the leaves and their lustrous 
appearance {vid. Rhodora, 10: 148, 1908). 
Hillside pasture, Florida. 
var. nigrum Wood. — ( V. nu/rum 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
With the type; frequent. 
