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GAYLUSSACIA URSINA, Torr. cV Gr. 



TAB. X. 



G. URSINA : ramis divaricatis, junioribus ferrugineo-pi- 

 losis; foliis membranaceis deciduis ovato-oblongis 

 acutis vel acuminatis mucronulatis viridibus puberulis 

 subtus minute resinoso-atomiferis ; racemo nutante 

 5-9-floro ; pedicellis filiformibus bracteas caducas 

 (inferiores foliaceas) excedentibus ; corolla (viridi- 

 rubella) globoso-campanulata ; antheris vertice vix 

 productis filamento ciliato brevioribus ; fructu nigro. 



Gaylussacia ursina, Torr. Sf Gr. Fl. N. Amer., 2. ined. 

 Vaccinium ursinum, M. A. Curtis, in Sill. Journ., 44. p. 82. 



Hab. In sylvis montanis comit. Henderson, Hay- 

 wood, Macon, etc , Carolina} Superioris, invenerunt 

 Curtis, Buckley ; necnon ad summum scopulum mira- 

 bilem "Table Rock" dictum, Carolinae Australis, ubi 

 ipse legi. Floret Maio, Junio ; fructus maturescit au- 

 tumno. ♦ _ 



Although so long overlooked by botanists, this species is very 

 common through the mountains near the southwestern borders of 

 North Carolina, where the fruit is known to the inhabitants by the 

 name of Bear-herry, or Bear Huckleberry. It is doubless the plant 

 which I find mentioned by the elder Michaux, in the manuscript 

 diary of his travels through this region, under the name of « Vac- 

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