Gayhissacla. ERICACEAE. ■ 19 



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

 urceolate, 4-5-l()beil, niarcescent. Stamens 8 or 10: filaments filiform, long-liairy above tiie 

 middle: anthers oblong ; the cells opening from ai)ex to base into two nnequal valves. 

 Ovary ovate, contracted at apex into a long style, tipped with a dejjressed-capitate um- 

 bilicate and pervious stigma: placent;e 4, with broail divergent iamclhr, which meet at 

 adjacent edges, ovidiferous on botii sides, giving the appearance of four exterior cells 

 surrounding a central larger one. 



1. GAYLUSSACIA, IIBK. IIucklkberrv. (In honor of a distin- 

 guished French chemist, Gmj-Lussac.) — Shrubs (of Eastern N. and 8. America) ; 

 with eitlier 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.), ")!.& Man. Bot. Decarhccna^ Torr. 

 & Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. xlii. 43 (1841). Decamertiim, 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 cylindraceous-campanulate, white or flesh-color, 2 lines long: anthers slightly 

 pointed, shorter than the eiliate filament. — Man. od. 1, 259. Varciniam hrarJu/rcruin, Michx. 

 Fl. i. 234. V. Imxlfolium, Salisb. Parad. t. 4 ; Bot. Mag. t. 928 ; Bot. Cab. t. G48. — Wooded 

 lulls, Alleghanies, from Perry Co., Penn. {Bcu'rd), 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 tiiickish and almost coriaceous, green both sides, the upper face shining: bracts foli- 

 acooiis and pcisistent : anthers with (ilifonn tubular appendages longer lliau the cells and 

 almost cfpiailing tlio corolla. 



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

 and glandular : leaves obovate-oblong or lanccolate-spatulate, veiny, conspicuously mu- 

 cronate: racemes loose : bracts oval, as long as the slender 2-bracteolatc i)edicels : ovary 

 cither glandular-pubescent or hairy : corolla campanulatc, white or rose-red: fruit black, 

 mostly pubescent, watery and rather insipid. — Gray, Man. 1. c. C. liirtclla, Torr. Fl. N. Y. 

 i. 448. Varriniitm dnmoxum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 112; Bot. :ALag. t. HOG; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 500. V. frondosiiiii, Michx. 1. c, not L. Deramerium dnmosum, Nutt. 1. c. — Sandy 

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

 cially i)assing freely into 



Var. hirtella, Gray, 1. c. Branehlets and especially racemes and ovary, and some- 

 times the leaves, glandular-hirsute or his])id. — G. lurUlla, Klotzseh in Linn. xiv. 43. V<tc- 

 ciniiiin hirlclliiiii, Ait. Kew. ed. 2, ii. Vj~ ; Dunal, 1. c. — Chiefly Southern States. 



* * Leaves tliiniKT, dull or paler : bracts much smaller, dec'lduous. 

 ■*— Branches slender and widely spreading ; flowers in very loose racemes, on long (ilifnrm 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 .'3 to (i feet 

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

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

 tubular tips: fruit dark blue and glaucous, sweet and edible (Blue T.wgle or Blue 

 Huckleberry). — Vaccinium frondosum, L. ; Andr. Bot. Kej). t. 140. V. rfimtstnm, Ait. Kew. 

 ed. 1, ii. 11. V. f/lnucum, Michx. 1. c. V. dncmneroatr/Mii, Dunal, 1. c. ex(d. syn. Wang. 

 Decamrrinm frmdi>sum, Nutt. 1. c. — Low and shaded grounds, coast of New Hampshire and 

 mountains of Penn. to Kentucky, r.,ouisiana, and Florida. 



Var. tomentosa, a form with foliage and shoots tomentose-pubescent. — Vacclnlum 

 Uimenlosum, Pursh, ined. — Georgia, Enslin. E. Florida, Dr. E. Palmer. 



