HUCKLEBERKY FAMILY. 657 



VACCINIACEAE. Huckleberry Family. 



C5-AYLUSSACIA H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 3 : 275. 1818. 



About 40 species, South America, chiefly iu Brazil. Eastoru North America, 6. 

 Shrubs. 



Gaylussacia dumosa (Andr.) Torr. & Gray; Gray, Man. 259. 1848. 



DWAItF HUCKLEBEKKY. 



Vaccmium dumosum Andr. Bot. Rep. 11: 1. 112. 1799. 

 V. frondosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 234. 1803. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 1:497. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 311. Chap. Fl. 258. Gray, Svn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1:19. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian arfea. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia; New England 

 south along the coast to Florida, west to eastern Louisiana. 



Alaisama: Mountain region to Lower Pine regi(m. Dry barren siliceous soil. Clay 

 County, ascending to 2.000 fei't, Emorya Gap. Flowers white, April; fruit rijie in 

 Jun(% July, shining black, smooth or slightly hispid. 



Shrubby from a horizontally creeping root 4 to 8 inches high. Rare iu the moun- 

 tains, abundant iu the dry pine barrens of the coast region. 



Type locality : " Introduced from North America in the year 1783." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 

 Gaylussacia hirtella (Ait. f.) Klotzsch, Linnaea, 24:48. 1851. 



Haiky Huckleberry. 



Vacciniuni hirtelluvi Ait. f. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 2 : 357. 1811. 



(raylussacia diimoaa hirtella Grav, Man. 259. 1848. 



Chap. FL 258; ed. 3, 280. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1:19. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia, along the const to Florida, and west 

 to ^lississipi^i. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Wet sandy borders of pine-barren 

 streams. Washington and Mobile counties. Flowers white; May, several weeks 

 laterthan (r. dumosa. Fruit ri])eus July, August; black, hispid by stiif hairs, insipid. 

 Most fre(]uent in the Coast plain and the adjacent Lower Pine region. Shrub 2 to 3 

 feet high. The habit of growth, habitat, and the other obvious permanent charac- 

 ters render this mesoiihile shrub sufficiently distinct to warrant its sei^aration from 

 V. dumosum and to have its specific rank restored. 



Type locality: "Native of North America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Gaylussacia froudosa tomentosa Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 19. 1878. 



Hoary Huckleberry. 



Gaylussacia tomentosa Pursh; Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 2, pt. I: 19. 1878. As 

 synonym. 



Readily distinguished from the type by the low slender growth, scarcely over a 

 foot in height, branched and leafy from the base, by the close, short, more or less 

 ferruginous pubescence of the brandies and on the lower side of the leaves, which 

 are from 1 to 1^ inches long, \ to f inch wide, oblong-ovate, attenuated toward 

 the base, almost sessile, finely and prominently reticulated; and further by the short 

 erect-spreading pedicels scarcely over f inch long. 



Louisianian area. Georgia to eastern Florida. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Shaded border of woods. Mobile 

 County, Springhill. I'lowers white; April. Not infrequent. Specimens collected 

 by Professors Earle and Underwood at Auburn of a glaucous hue; pubescence pale, 

 reticulation of the leaves wider and less prominent, and the racemes longer and 

 loosely flowered, connect this variety with the northern typical form. 



Type locality : "Georgia, Enslin. E. Florida, JJr. E. Palmer." 



Herb. (Jeol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



VACCINIUM L. Sp. PL 1 : 349. 1753. Blueberry. Bilberry. 



Over 100 species, extra tropical regions, Northern Hemisphere, excepting the Afri- 

 can species. North America, 24 to 26. Shrubs, rarely arborescent. 

 VacciniumarboreumMarsh. Arb. Am. 157. 1785. Farkleberry. Sparkleberry. 



Ell. Sk. 1:495. Gray. Man. ed. 6, 312. Chap. Fl. 259. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 20. 

 Sargent, Silv. N. A. 5 : 119, t. 230. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Central Tennessee, west to sonthern Illinois, 

 southern Missouri and Arkansas, south to North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. 



Alabama : Mountain region to Coast plain. Barren, siliceous soil, open woods nnd 

 copses. Flowers white, April to June; fruit ripe September to December, shining 



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