Vaccinium pallidum Aiton

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Frederick Y. Coville
Botanist.
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LETTER TGIiOftROf*
FREBERICK V COV ILLE
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Yaccininm ashei Mist be the rabbiteye (not rabbit-eye)
blueberry, but X regard It as only a giteacaxaB form of Yaccinium
virgatnm.
With best wishes, I am,
Very sincerely yours,
FYC:CBP*
P*S* It is better Latin to write this name tallapusae. I am willing
to let it go that way if you think best. Let me know which form you
use* I am selecting a type specimen from the vicinity of Tallapoosa. / ft
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Dr. John K. Small, '
The New York Botanical Garden,
Bronx Park, New York, N. Y.
Dear Dr* anali:
Confirming my telegram of yesterday, I am willing to have
the Tallapoosa blueberry published as Cyanococcus tallapoosae.
Modifications should be made in the description to in-
clude the following:
Stems 15 to 60 cm. high, from thick horizontal rootstocks.
Corolla greenish white, seme times with a blush of pink.
Berry blue, commonly 7 to 10 mm. in diameter, rarely 14 nan.
Branchlets glabrous, or sometimes with lines of scant
pubescence.
Leaves elliptic lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, glabrous or
sometimes pubescent on the upper surface along the midrib, or even
elliolate on the margins at maturity, 2 to 5 cm. long, acute at the
apex, entire.
Oak woods, western Georgia, especially in the vicinity of
Tallapoosa, and eastern Alabama.
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