GAYLUSSACIA IIBK 175 



GAYLUSSACIA lllilv (Erlcacoiio) 



Low deciduous or ovcrgroen shrubs. Tw1j;h slender, 3-8idod 

 or roundish; pith small, continuous. Buds solitary, sessile, ovoid, 

 small; terminal bud lacldng. Leal-scars alternate, 3-8i(led; bundle- 

 trace 1; stipule-scars none. 



a. Leaves evergreen 1..G. brachycera 



a. Leaves deciduous 



b. Buds Willi 4 or 13 exposed scales; 



mostly on the coastal plain 2,G. dumosa 



b. Buds with 2 or 'I exposed scales; 

 nortliern, mostly In the mountains 

 southwards 3.G. baocata 



1, G, brachycera (M ichx. ) Gray. Box Hu ckleberry. A shrub 

 1 m. high, with creeping and ascending stem and spreading gla- 

 brous angled branches; leaves evergreen,serrul.'it(^ 1 . 5-2. 5 cm. 

 long. Sandy woods, local, Delaware to West Virginia and 'r(^nne8- 

 see (Fig. 2('A), 



2, _G. dumosa (Andr. ) T. and G. Dwarf Huckleberry . A low 

 shrub with creeping stem juid erect branches to 0.5 m. high; twigs 

 puberulcnt. Dry barrens, mostly on tiie coastal plain, Florida to 

 Mississippi, nortli to Newfoundland (l''ig. 205). 



3, G. baccata (Wang. ) K. Koch. B lack Huckle berry, liprlglit 

 shrub about 1 m. high, with the young growth densely rtislnous; 

 twigs more or less pubescent. Thickets and woods, Newfoundland 

 to Saskatchewan, south to Georgia and Louisiana (I'ig. 2(;()). 



VACCINlUJVI L. (I'Jricaceae) 



Deciduous shrubs, usually under 1 m. tall, som(!times trail- 

 ing or arborescent (some species evergreen). Twigs slender, more 

 or less jmgled; pith small, continuous. Buds small, solitary, ses- 

 sile, with 2 or more scales; terminal bud deckiuous. Leaf-scars 

 alternate, small, half-round; bundle-trace I; stipule-scars none, 



a. Leaves deciduous 



b. Buds oblong, appresscd, with 



2 obtuse exposed scales G. V. (;rythrocarpum 



b. Buds ovoid or globose; scales several 



or pointed 



