. 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 . VACCINIACEAE. Vol. II. 4. Vaccinium ovalifolium J. E. Smith. Tall or Oval-leaved Bilberry. Fig. 3262. Vaccinium ovalifolium J. E. Smith in Rees' Cyclop. 36: No. 2. 1817. A straggling branched shrub, 3°-i2° high, the branches slender; twigs glabrous, jointed, sharply angled. Leaves oval, or elliptic, short-petioled. glabrous on both sides, green above, pale and glaucous benea
. 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 . VACCINIACEAE. Vol. II. 4. Vaccinium ovalifolium J. E. Smith. Tall or Oval-leaved Bilberry. Fig. 3262. Vaccinium ovalifolium J. E. Smith in Rees' Cyclop. 36: No. 2. 1817. A straggling branched shrub, 3°-i2° high, the branches slender; twigs glabrous, jointed, sharply angled. Leaves oval, or elliptic, short-petioled. glabrous on both sides, green above, pale and glaucous beneath, rounded at both ends, or some- what narrowed at the base, thin, sometimes mucronulate, entire or very nearly so, 1-2' long; flowers commonly solitary in the axils, on rather short recurved pedicels; slightly toothed; corolla ovoid; stamens 10; berry blue with a bloom, 4"-s" in diameter. Woods, Quebec to Michigan, Oregon and Alaska. Also m Japan. June-July. Fruit ripe July-Aug. Vaccinium nublgenum Fernald, of mountain rocks in Quebec, has smaller serrulate elliptic leav 5. Vaccinium pallidum Ait. Pale or ^Mountain Blueberrv. Fig. 3263. T\ pallidum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : lo. 1789. Vaccinium corymbosum var. pallidttm A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 250. 1856. V. Conslablei A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. 42 : 42. 1842. A branching shrub, 2°-8° high, with gla- brous green warty twigs. Leaves oval, ovate or oblong, rather thin when mature, acute or acuminate, narrowed or rounded at the base, short-petioled, glabrous and light green above, pale and slightly glaucous beneath, serrulate, or nearly entire, 1-3' long; flowers several or numerous in the clusters, about equalling their slender pedicels; corolla oblong-cylindric to urceolate, slightly constricted at the throat, greenish-pink, 2"-2i" long, iJ"-2" thick; berry blue, 4"-6" In woods, mountains of Virginia to South Carolina. Fruit May-June. Berries ripe July-Aug. Vaccinium simulatum Small,
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