. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. orm,with more decidedly lanceolate leaves. V. angustifoliiun, c, V. salicinum, Aschers, 1. c, not Cham. Summits of moun-tains northern New York and New England, Quebec to northshore of Lake Superior and northward. This species is extremely variable in size and shape of fruitand flowers, but with the exception of the variety noted, and theblack fruited form often associated with it, which is set off as U+ MAINS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9OI. V. nigrum, the variations do not appear sufficiently constant towarrant making
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. orm,with more decidedly lanceolate leaves. V. angustifoliiun, c, V. salicinum, Aschers, 1. c, not Cham. Summits of moun-tains northern New York and New England, Quebec to northshore of Lake Superior and northward. This species is extremely variable in size and shape of fruitand flowers, but with the exception of the variety noted, and theblack fruited form often associated with it, which is set off as U+ MAINS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9OI. V. nigrum, the variations do not appear sufficiently constant towarrant making separations. In general, the plant is of low,semi-prostrate habit, is extremely prolific and thrives on drysandy hills. It furnishes the bulk of the blueberries found in theeastern markets. When mown down or burned, the new erectshoots produce, the following year, a long spike-like mass ofbloom and fruit which may be stripped off by of its character, and early ripening habit, it is known onthe blueberry- plains as early sweet or low v. pexvstlvan: :;_M, V. nigrum, Low Black Blueberry)Britton. Mem. Torr. Club 5:252. .onym: V. Pennsylvania! m var. nigrum, Wood, Bot. andFlor. 199, 1873.) HORTICULTURAL STATUS OF THE GENUS VACCIN1UM. 145 Low shrub, similar to / \Pennsylvanicum and oftenassociated with it. Leavesoblong-lanceolate to obovaic,finely serrulate, green above,pale and glaucous beneath ;flowers few in the clusters,white or cream colored, ap-pearing earlier than those ofPennsylvanicum/ berries rather small, black withoutbloom. {Figured: (photo.)Rep. Maine Exp. Sta., 1898,171.)—Dry rocky soil,Maine to New Jersey, west-ward to Michigan. The species is distin-guished from the precedingby the glaucous under sur-faces of the leaves and by thecharacteristic shining, blackfruit. It is usually found incolonies in the same situa-tions as Pennsylvanicum;but occasionally the twospecies will be found intermingled.
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