1010 VACOINIACEAE 
Gaylussacia brachycera A. Gray]—(BOX-HUCKLEBERRY. JERUSALEM-HUCKLE- 
ERRY. IPER.)—W ooded slopes Rer i1 north, in acid soil, px 
provinees, E Tenn., a Ky. d S border o Pa., Md., and Del.; 
develope ed in SE W. Va., un pone CR iE ps in "isolated patches, bis 
repr Bc anr a EUN plant —BSpr.—Where abundant the berries are made into 
a preserve. 
4. BATODENDRON Nutt. Shrubs or small trees, with much-branched 
stems. Leaves somewhat persistent: blades thin-coriaceous, often glandular 
denticulate. Flowers in leafy-bracted pan- 
icles. Sepals acute. Corolla campanulate, 
white or pinkish. Stamens shorter than the 
corolla: anther-sacs longer than the fila- 
ments, shorter than the apical-tubes. Berry 
black, shining, many-seeded.—T wo or three 
speeies, in the southern United States. 
B. arboreum (Marsh.) Nutt. Stem 
lobes acute or acutish, much shorte 
the tube: anthers about 3 mm. long: Pese globose, 5-6 mm. in diameter, the 
pulp rather dry.—(SPARKLEBERRY. FARKLEBERRY. TREE-HUCKLEBERRY. GOOSE- 
BERRY. ee various provinces, Fla. to Tex., ay 
a. ne 
g 
ealeareous soil. “The brown, hard, very close-grained wood is used for ton: 
handles 
5. POLYCODIUM Raf. Shrubs with irregularly branched stems. Leaves 
deciduous: blades thick-membranous, often pubescent or glaucous, entire. 
Flowers in leafy panicles. eid s rounded, acute, or acuminate. Corolla white 
or greenish, open-campanula Stamens longer than " corolla: anther-saes 
shorter than the filaments, much Pu. than the apieal tubes. Berry green, 
nin Pus ua or black, in many species glaucous, dull, few-seeded.— 
s, in eastern North America.—Spr.—BUCKBERRIES. SQUAW- 
HUCKLEBERRIES, DEERBERRIES. GOOSEBERRIES. 
Racemes or panicles with bracts tape A the leaves of the branches and usually 
about as large: berry greenish or blue 
Leaves and branchlets pubescent, 1. P. floridanum, 
Leaves and branchlets glabrous. 2. P. Ashei. 
Bon d: pon oes with bracts conspicuously smaller than 
the 
Leaves 2nd. branchlets EO 9. P. neglectum. 
Leaves and branchlets pubescen 
dopo ics to ovate- deltoid, not exceeding the 
olla pee corolla- lobes usually shorter 
kan the 
Hypanthium ‘and calyx glabrous, oe the cilio- 
late sepals, green or glaucous: berry green, 
yellowish, or glaucous. 
wo qe rather pale-green beneath: berry 
een or yellowish. 4. P. stamineum. 
Leaf-blades glaucous, ee chalky-white 
beneath; berry glaucou . P. candicans. 
