. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Low Blueberry. Blue Huckleberry. Fig. 3268. r. vacillans Kalm; Torn Fl. N. Y. 1: 444. 1843. A stiff branching shrub, 6'-4° high, with glabrous or sometimes pubescent, yellowish- green warty branches and twigs. Leaves obo- vate, oval, or broadly oblong, acute or obtuse and usually mucronulate, narrowed or rounded at the base, firm, glabrous on both sides, or pubescent
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Low Blueberry. Blue Huckleberry. Fig. 3268. r. vacillans Kalm; Torn Fl. N. Y. 1: 444. 1843. A stiff branching shrub, 6'-4° high, with glabrous or sometimes pubescent, yellowish- green warty branches and twigs. Leaves obo- vate, oval, or broadly oblong, acute or obtuse and usually mucronulate, narrowed or rounded at the base, firm, glabrous on both sides, or pubescent beneath, entire, or sparingly serru- late, pale, glaucous and finely reticulate-veined beneath, l'-2h' long, i'-ii' w^ide; flowers sev- eral or few in the clusters which are sometimes racemose on naked branches, longer than or equalling their pedicels; corolla oblong-cylin- dric, somewhat constricted at the throat, greenish-pink, 2"-s" long, ii"-2" thick; berry blue with a bloom, sweet, 2"-3J" in diameter. In dry soil. New Hampshire to Ontario and Michigan, south to Georgia. Tennessee and Kan- sas. May-June. Fruit ripe July-Aug. Vaccinium nigrum (Wood) Britten. Low Black Blueberry. Fig. 3269. I'accinitim peniisylvaniciii: Flor. 199. 1873. V. nigrum Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 252. igruiii Wood. Bot. & 894. Similar to V. angustifoUum and often growing with it, 6-12' high, the twigs glabrous. Leaves oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, acute at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, finely serrulate, very nearly sessile, i'-l' long, 3"-6" wide, glabrous on both sides, green above, pale and glaucous be- neath ; flowers few in the clusters, longer than their pedicels; corolla globose-ovoid, very little con- stricted at the throat, white or cream color, about 2" long, I J" thick; berry black, without bloom, about 3" in diameter. In dry rocky soil. New Brunswick to New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan. May. Fruit ripe in J
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