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EBICACEJE. (heath FAMILY.) 
lateral bracted racemes. (Named in honor of the distinguished 
chemist, Gay-Lussac.) For a critical notice of the N. Amer. 
species, see Gray , Chloris Bor.-Am., t. 10, p. 49. 
* Leaves thick and evergreen, not resinous-dotted. 
1. O. l»racliycera, Gray. (Box-leaved Huckleberry.) 
Low, very smooth; leaves oval, finely crenate-toothed; racemes 
short and nearly sessile; pedicels very short; corolla cylindncal- 
bell-shaped. (Vacclnium brachfcerum, Michx. V. buxifblium, 
Salisb.) — Perry county, Penn., near Bloomfield, Prof. Baird. May. 
— Shrub 1° high : leaves in shape and aspect like those of the Box. 
* . Leaves deciduous, entire: whole plant more or less resinous-dotted. 
2 G. dumosa, Torr. & Gr. (Dwarf Huckleberry.) Some- 
what hairy and glandular, low (1° high from a creeping base) bushy; 
leaves obovate-oblong, mucronate, green both sides, rather thick and 
shining when old; racemes elongated; bracts leof-like, oval, persist¬ 
ent, as long as the pedicels ; ovary bristly or glandular ; corolla bell¬ 
shaped ; fruit black.-Var. hirt£lla has the young branchlets ra¬ 
cemes, and often the leaves hairy.-Sandy low soil, Maine to New 
Jersey, near the coast, and southward. June. — Fruit insipid. 
3 G. frondosa, Torr. & Gr. (Blue Tangle. Dangle- 
berry.) Smooth; branches slender and divergent; leaves obovate- 
oblong, obtuse, pale, glaucous beneath ; racemes slender, loose ; bracts 
oblong or linear, rather deciduous, shorter than the slender drooping 
pedicels; corolla globular-bell-shaped; fruit dark blue with a white 
bloom. - Low copses, Maine to Penn, near the coast, and southward. 
May, June.—Shrub 39-6° high, with grayish bark. Fruit sweet, 
much prized in New Jersey, &c. 
4. G. resinosa, Torr. & Gr. (Black Huckleberry.) Much 
branched, rigid, slightly pubescent when young; leaves oval, oblong- 
ovate, or oblong, thickly clothed and at first clammy, os well as the 
flowers, with shining resinous globules ; racemes short, clustered, one¬ 
sided ; pedicels about the length of the flowers; bracts and bracelets 
(i reddish ) small and deciduous; corolla ovoid-conical or at leng£cy- 
lindrical with an open mouth; fruit black w ' th ° u ‘ b '°°“ v “]^ ere 
lands and swamps May, June.-Shrub 1°-SP 
reddish, tinged with green. Fruit pleasant; 
of the North. It is said sometimes to occur with 
a. VACCINItMi L - Blueberry. Bilberry. 
Corolla bell-shaped, urn-shaped, or cylindrical; the limb 4-5- 
cleft, revolute. Stamens 8 or 10 : anthers sometimes 2-awned 
the hack ; the cells separate and prolonged into a tube a , 
opening by a hole at the apex. Berry 4 - 5 -celled, many-seeded, 
