472 VACCINIACEAE 
1. GAYLUSSACIA, HBK. 
Shrubs, with alternate, undivided leaves and with small white or red- 
dish flowers in lateral clusters. Flower pedicels usually with 2 small 
bracts. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla tubular. Fruit a dark blue or black 
berry with 10 hard seed-nutlets. 
Fruit blue, leaves with a whitish bloom beneath . . . . . . . Gz. frondosa 
Leaves leathery, without whitish bloom . . . . . . . G. brachycera 
Fruit black, both sides of leaves green. 
Bracts at the flower pedicels leaf-like, oval, persistent . . . G. dumosa 
Bracts of the pedicels small and falling early . . . . . . G. resinosa 
1. G, frondosa, (L.) Torr. and Gray. DANcLEBERRY. Shrub, 3 to 
6 ft. high, smooth, young shoots green or yellowish; leaves oblong or pear- 
shaped, 13 to 2 in. long, blunt at apex tapering at base, pale whitish 
beneath. Flowers in slender loose lateral clusters; corolla small, bell- 
shaped. Flower pedicel with a small bract at base. Fruit dark blue with 
a whitish bloom, sweet. Moist woods, New York. New Hampshire and 
southward. May-June. 
2. G. resinosa, (Ait.). Torr. and Gray. (Fig. 8, pl. 116.) Buiack 
HUCKLEBERRY. HIGH-BUSH HUCKLEBERRY. (G. baccata, C. Koch.) Shrub, 
1 to 3 ft. high, branching, the young stems often deep red, leaves oval or 
oblong, pointed or rather blunt at apex, tapering at base, with a resinous 
covering when young, studded with resinous dots. Clusters of flowers 
one-sided, with few reddish-yellow flowers. Bracts at the base of the flower 
pedicel small and falling early. Fruit black with a bloom. Woods and 
thickets, extent of our area. May-June. 
3. G. dumosa, (Andr.) Torr. and Gray. (Fig. 9, pl. 116.) BusH 
HUCKLEBERRY. Shrub, 1 to 3 ft. high, young branches somewhat downy. 
Leaves pear-shaped or oblong, green on both sides, thick and shining 
when old. Bracts at the base of flower pedicels large, leaf-like, oval, per- 
sistent. Flowers in loose, slender clusters, corolla bell-shaped. Fruit 
black without a bloom, insipid. The whole plant more or less sprinkled 
with resinous dots. Sandy swamps, from north to south in our area. 
May-June. 
4. @QG. brachycera, (Michx.) A. Gray. Box Huck ieserry. Branch- 
ing shrub, about 1 ft. high, with oval, finely toothed leaves, which are 
thick and leathery and without leaf-stalks or with very short ones. Co- 
rolla cylindric-bell-shaped, white or pink in short close clusters. Wooded 
hills, Penna., southward. May. 
2. VACCINIUM, L. 
Shrubs, branching, mostly quite low, with scattered leaves and small 
flowers solitary or in currant-like clusters. Corolla monopetalous with 
4 or 5 teeth at free margin or 4- or 5-lobed. Stamens twice as many as 
lobes of corolla and included within it. Fruit a berry with numerous 
small seeds, smaller and Jess observable than those of Gaylussacia, 
Corolla rather deer cleft, lobes alkane: 
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Lobes 5 . V. stamineum 
Corolla cylindric or ‘ovate, "generally more "or “less contracted _ at “the throat. 
Flowers solitary or only 2 to 4 together; aiesHe dwarf species, 
Corolla mostly 4-toothed . . .. . ; - « V. uliginosum 
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