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Index of Botanical Specimens

Classification	Ericaceae: Vaccinium
Complex Object	This is a complex collection object (5 items with 1 preparation)
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00967057
Other Barcodes on Sheet	; ; ; ;
Collector	H. D. Thoreau
Country	United States of America
State	Massachusetts
Geography	North America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Massachusetts: Middlesex County: Concord
Locality	stringed by Trillium Wood
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/00e371df-3461-4ce5-9d19-158b408f9b99
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00967057
Herbarium	GH
Family	Ericaceae
Determination	Vaccinium corymbosum Linnaeus
Determined by	Kittredge, Walter Tobey
Date Determined	2017
Determination Remarks	[current name]
Family	Ericaceae
Determination	Vaccinium corymbosum var. atrococcum A. Gray
Subcollection	Thoreau Herbarium
Phenology	Flower
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed
Description	[var. atrocarpum (flowers)]

Remarks

[Thoreau was in the habit of marked plants in the field he wanted to study using string. The plant he collected this specimen from appears to be referred to in an unpublished "to-do" list pasted into the endpaper of one of his Journal volumes that ends in the middle of his July 31, 1857 entry from his Maine trip. The list of things he wants to check includes one line that reads: "v[ide] leaves fruit of stringed blueberry edge Trillium wood" fide R. L. Angelo (in litt.) Dec. 21, 2018]