. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. Separately printed, without change of paging, from Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 61: 81-84. 1 February, 1934 (. ; I ' \ j<^ i;^ Fig. 3. The field where the public is invited to pick flowers. Introduction of plants from various parts of the State will be begun this season, and will go on as rapidly as funds permit. It is hoped that members of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science will aid the project by advising us as to places in the State where colonies of interesting plants are threatened with destruction throug
. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. Separately printed, without change of paging, from Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 61: 81-84. 1 February, 1934 (. ; I ' \ j<^ i;^ Fig. 3. The field where the public is invited to pick flowers. Introduction of plants from various parts of the State will be begun this season, and will go on as rapidly as funds permit. It is hoped that members of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science will aid the project by advising us as to places in the State where colonies of interesting plants are threatened with destruction through road-building, draining or flooding of swamps, or vandalism on the part of the public, to the end that clumps may be transplanted and given an opportunity to survive in a permanently protected place. A series of lantern slides was shown at the meeting to illustrate the present aspect of the tract. Three of these views are reproduced here. '4 Ai»< ^ The box huckleberry as an illustration of the need for field work^ Edgar T. Wherry The plant here discussed is a low evergreen ground-covering shrub with leaves resembling those of the common box, but with the technical char- acters of the blueberry family (Vacciniaceae), Michaux, in his *^ Flora Bor- eali-Americana/' named it Vaccinium brachycerum, and gave the locality as "Virginia circa Winchester," although the specimen in his herbarium is labelled "Warm Springs," perhaps referring to what is now known as Berkeley Springs, in West Virginia. It was again found by Matthias Kinn, about 1800, in the Greenbrier VaUey, and by Pursh in 1805 near Sweet Springs. Upon the death of these early collectors, the locaUties from which they had obtained the box huckleberry were lost to science, and for many years Asa Gray was unable to obtain material for study in connection with his monograph of the family. In 1845, however, a colony of it was discovered by Spencer F. Baird near New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsylvani
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