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FIG. 356. Black or High-bush Huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata or G. resinosa). An 

 erect shrub with straggling branches, having leaves and flowers that are densely covered 

 with resinous dots; the leaves vary from oval to oblong; the flowers are reddish-yellow, 

 clustered in short racemes on terminal and axillary branches; the fruit is a sweet, blackish, 

 berry-like drupe. In some varieties it is smooth and shiny, in others it is bluish and covered 

 with a bloom. After Brown. 



