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

 urceolate, 4-5-Iobed, marcescent. Stamens 8 or 10 : filaments filiform, lung-hairy above the 

 middle: anthers oblong; the cells opening from apex to base into two unequal valves. 

 Ovary ovate, contracted at ape.x into a long style, tipped with a depressed-capitate um- 

 bilicate and pervious stigma: placentie 4, with broad divergent lamellaj, wliicli meet at 

 adjacent edges, ovuliferous on both sides, giving the appearance of four exterior cells 

 surrounding a central larger one. 



1. GAYLUSSACIA, HBK. Huckleberry. (In honor of a distin- 

 fijiiished French chemist, Gay-Lussac.) — Shrubs (of Eastern N. and S. America) ; 

 with either 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.), 51, & Man. Bot. Becachcena, Torr, 

 & Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. xlii. 43 (1841). Decamerium, 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 ciliate filament. — Man. ed. 1, 2-59. Vaccinitim brachijcerum, Michx. 

 Fl. i. 234. V. buxifolium, Salisb. Parad. t. 4 ; Bot. Mag. t. 28 ; Bot. Cab. t. (348. — "Wooded 

 liills, Alleghanies, from Perry Co., Penn. (Baird), to Virginia. Sussex Co., Delaware, .^1. 

 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 thickish and almost coriaceous, green both sides, the upper face shining: bracts foli- 

 aceous and persistent: anthers with (iUfoi-ni tubular appendages longer than the cells and 

 almost equalling the corolla. 



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

 and glandular : leaves obovate-oblong or lanceolatc-spatidate, veiny, conspicuously mu- 

 cronatc : racemes loose : bracts oval, as long as the slender 2-bracteolate pedicels : ovary 

 eitlier glandular-pubescent or hairy : corolla campanulate, white or rose-red: fruit black, 

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

 i. 448. Vuccinium diniwsiim, Andr. Bot. I?ep. t. 112; Bot. Mag. t. 1106; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 566. V. frondositm, Miclix. 1. c, not L. Deramerinm dnmosum, Nutt. 1. c. — Sandy 

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

 ciall}' passing freely into 



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

 times the leaves, glandular-hirsute or hispid. — G. hirtella, Klotzsch in Linn. xiv. 48. Vuc- 

 cinium hirtellum. Ait. Kew. ed. 2, ii. .357 ; Dunal, 1. c. — Chiefly Southern States. 



* * Leaves thinner, dull or paler: bracts much smaller, deciduous, 

 ■f^ Branches slender and ■widel}' spreading ; flowers in very loose racemes, on long filiform 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 6 feet 

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

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

 tubular tips: fruit dark blue and glaucous, sweet and edible (Blue Tangle or Blue 

 Huckleberry). — Vaccinium/rondosnm, L. ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 140. V. venustum. Ait. Kew. 

 ed. 1, ii. 11. V. glaucum, Michx. 1. c. V. decamerocnrpon, Dunal, 1. c. e.xcl. syn. Wang. 

 Decamerium frondosum, Nutt. 1. c. — Low and shaded grounds, coast of New Hampshire and 

 mountains of Penn. to Kentucky, Louisiana, and Florida. 



Var. tomentosa, a form with foliage and shoots tomcntose-pubescent. — Vaccinium 

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



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