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34. NEWBERRYA. Calyx incomplete, of 2 bract-like entire sepals. Corolla tubular- 

 urceolate, 45-lobed, marcescent. Stamens 8 or 10: filaments filiform, long-hairy above the 

 middle: anthers oblong ; the cells opening from apex to base into two unequal valves. 

 Ovary ovate, contracted at apex into a long style, tipped with a depressed-capitate urn- 

 bilicate and pervious stigma: placenta? 4, with broad divergent lamella?, which meet at 

 adjacent edges, ovnliferous on both sides, giving the appearance of four exterior cells 

 surrounding a central larger one. 



1. G-AYLUSSACIA, HBK. HUCKLEBERRY. (In honor of a distin- 

 guished French chemist, Gay-Lussac.) --Shrubs (of Eastern N. and S. America) ; 

 with either evergreen or deciduous leaves, commonly glandular or resinous-atomi- 

 ferous, flowers in lateral racemes from separate scaly buds, bracteate and often 

 bracteolate pedicels, reddish or greenish or white corolla, and edible fruit, 

 Flowering in spring; fruit ripe in summer, blue or black. -- Torr. Fl. N. Y. 

 i. 448 ; Gray, Chloris (Mem. Am. Acad. iii.), 51, & Man. Bot. Decachcena, Torr. 

 & Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. xlii. 43 (1841). Decamerium, Nutt. in Trans. Am. 

 Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 260 (1843). 



1. Leaves thick and evergreen, somewhat serrate, destitute of resinous atoms. 



G. brachycera, Gray. Very smooth and glabrous, the young parts barely puberulent, 

 a foot high or less: branches angled: leaves oval (half to full inch long) : racemes in the 

 axils, short, almost sessile, of few crowded flowers : bracts and bractlets scaly, caducous : 

 corolla cylindraccous-campanulate, white or flesh-color, 2 lines long : anthers slightly 

 pointed, shorter than the ciliate filament. Man. ed. 1, 259. Vacclnimn brack i/cerum, Michx. 

 Fl. i. 234. V. Imxijbfutm, Salisb. Farad, t. 4 ; Bot. Mag. t. 928 ; Bot. Cab. t. 048. Wooded 

 hills, Alleglianics, from Perry Co., Penn. (Baird), to Virginia. Sussex Co., Delaware, A. 

 Commons. Leaves like those of Dwarf Box. 



2. Leaves deciduous, entire, more or less sprinkled with minute resinous or 

 waxy atoms : racemes from axils of the former year. 



* Leaves thickisli and almost coriaceous, green both sides, the upper face shining: bracts foli- 

 aceous and persistent : anthers with filiform tubular appendages longer than the cells and 

 almost equalling the corolla. 



G. dumosa, Torr. & Gray. A foot or two high from a creeping base, somewhat hairy 

 and glandular : leaves obovate-oblong or lanceolate-spatulate, veiny, conspicuously inu- 

 cronate : racemes loose : bracts oval, as long as the slender 2-bracteolate pedicels : ovary 

 either glandular-pubescent or hairy : corolla campanulate, white or rose-red: fruit black, 

 mostly pubescent, watery and rather insipid. Gray, Man. 1. c. (>. liirtcl/a, Torr. Fl. N. Y. 

 i. 448. Vucclniinn dtniiostim, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 112; Bot. Mag. t. HOG; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 506. V. frondostim, Michx. 1. c., not L. Decamerium dnmosnm, Xutt. 1. c. Sandy 

 swamps, Newfoundland, and along the coast to Florida and Louisiana ; southward espe- 

 cially passing freely into 



Var. hirtalla, Gray, 1. c. Branchlets and especially racemes and ovary, and some- 

 times the leaves, glandular-hirsute or hispid. G. hirlr/la, Klotzsch in Linn. xiv. 43. Vuc- 

 ciniiiin hirtellitm, Ait. Kew. ed. 2, ii. -'357 ; Dunal, 1. c. Chiefly Southern States. 



* * Leaves thinner, dull or paler: bracts much smaller, deciduous. 



* Branches slender and widely spreading ; flowers in very loose racemes, on long filiform pedi- 

 cels: corolla between globular and campanulate. greenish-purplish, 2 lines or less in length. 



G. frondosa, Torr. & Gray. Glabrous, or puberulent when young, from :} to feet 

 high, with light gray branches : leaves oblong or oval-obovate, obtuse or retuse, pale, 

 whitish and very veinv beneath : bracts tardily deciduous : anthers with rather long 

 tubular tips: fruit dark blue and glaucous, sweet and edible (BLUE TANGLE or BLUE 

 HUCKLEBERRY). Vaccinium frondosum, L. ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 140. ]'. rcmistiim, Ait. Kew. 

 ed. 1, ii. 11. V. (flaucum, Michx. 1. c. V. decamerocarpon, Dunal, 1. e. excl. syn. Wang. 

 Decamerium frondosum, Nutt. 1. c. Low and shaded grounds, coast of New Hampshire and 

 mountains of Penn. to Kentucky, Louisiana, and Florida. 



"Var. tomentosa, a form with foliage and shoots tomentose-pubescent. Vaccinium 

 tomentosum, Pursh, ined. Georgia, Enslin. E. Florida, Dr. E. Palmer. 



