Bulletin - United States National Museum - Smithsonian Institution

94 FLORA OF WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
liOBELIACEuS:.
Lobelia Family.
t Lobelia cardinalis, L. Cakdixal-flower.
Middle of August to middle of September.
t Lobelia syphilitica, L. Great Lobelia.
September.
t Lobelia puberula, Micbx.
Specimens found October 1, 1876, measured IJ in height. It seems to flower
throughout the summer, having been collected in good condition May r?0, 1874, i
June 8, 1873, September 21, 1873, and October 1, 1876.
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t Lobelia spicata, Lam.
June.
t Lobelia inflata, L. Indian Tobacco.
August, September.
CAMPANULACE^.
Campanula Family.
tSpecularia perfoliata, A. DC. Ve'nus's Looking-glass.
End of May or first of June.
Campanula Americana, L. Tall Bellflower.
High Island. Early in July.
ERICACEwSB.
Heath Family.
t Gaylussacia dumosa, Torr. «& Gray. Dwarf Huckleberry.
Terra Cotta Swamp, June 11,1876, in flower; Agricultural College, Md. (Profes-
sor Chick ering) ; rare.
t Gaylussacia frondosa, Torr. & Gray. Blue Tangle. Dangleberry.
May ; fruit in July.
t Gaylussacia resinosa, Torr. & Gray. Black Huckleberry.
Middle of May ; fruit, last of June or in July.
Vaccinium vacillans, Solander. Low Blueberry.
Sterile plants often prostrate, with leaves more or less two-ranked. A thinleaved
form, growing in thickets aud flowering with or after the leaves, occurs near
the Reform School, and a form with brilliant pink buds and corolla, and with
flowers wholly in advance of the leaves, is abundmit ou bare rocks at Great Falls.
Last week in April or first of May ; fruit, last of June.
t Vaccinium stamineum, L. Deerberry. Squaw-Huckleberry.
Last half of May; fruit, middle of July.
t Vaccinium corymbosum, L. Common Blueberry. Swamp-Blueberry.
Last half of April ; fruit in July. ,