. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 2, App. p. 12; Hooker, Fl. 2:32. Synonym: V. album, Lam. Encyc. 1:73, not L.) Erect shrubs, 1-2 feet high, the crowded branchlets downy-pubescent; leaves oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, entire, downyboth sides; corolla short, open-campanulate, greenish-white,often tinged with red; berries globose or oblate, blue with muchbloom, of excellent flavor. (Figured: Bot. Mag. ) —Low woods, Hudsons Bay to Bear Lake and the northern RockyMountains; south to New England, mountains of Pennsylvaniaand Illinois. i_d MAINE AGRICULT
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 2, App. p. 12; Hooker, Fl. 2:32. Synonym: V. album, Lam. Encyc. 1:73, not L.) Erect shrubs, 1-2 feet high, the crowded branchlets downy-pubescent; leaves oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, entire, downyboth sides; corolla short, open-campanulate, greenish-white,often tinged with red; berries globose or oblate, blue with muchbloom, of excellent flavor. (Figured: Bot. Mag. ) —Low woods, Hudsons Bay to Bear Lake and the northern RockyMountains; south to New England, mountains of Pennsylvaniaand Illinois. i_d MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1901. This species, commonly known as sour top or velvet leafbecause of the character of its foliage and the somewhat acidfruit, usually grows in rather moist, rocky, not swampy locali-ties. The fruit is larger and more acid than the other low formsand matures from one to three weeks later. It is not so popularin the general market as the sweeter kinds, but it is very prolificand its lateness in ripening is a point in its V. CANADESSE. V. hirsutum, Buckley. (Hairy Blaeberry. Bear Huckleberry) Buckley, Am. Jour. Sci. _f : 175. 1843; Sargent, Gard. & For. 2:365. Low shrub, 1-2 feet high, the stems green, grooved, obscurely4-angled, those of the current year covered with stout, spreading,white hairs; leaves ovate, entire and, together with the pure HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF THE GENUS VACCINIUM. I47 white, campanulate, corolla, the calyx and the dark blue globosefruit, hirsute. (Figured: Gard. and For. 2: 365.)—Mountainsof Cherokee County, North Carolina, (Buckley, Sargent) ; Tal-lulah Falls Canon, Georgia, (J. K. Small) ; Cades Cove Moun-tains, Tennessee, (A. Ruth). This species, discovered about 1840 by B. S. Buckley in themountains of Cherokee County, North Carolina, was lost sightof for half a century until re-discovered by Sargent at Robbins-ville, Graham County, North Carolina in 1887, when it wastransferred to the Arnold Arboretum. Practica
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