VACCINIACE^ 547 



Plants tall, 3 to 12 feet, and spreading. 



Flowers solitary in leal axils, I', ovalifoliiim (tall or oval-leaved bilberry). 

 Flowers in groups in leaf axils. 



Fruit blue, V . rorymbosum (high bush IjJuebcrry, swamp huckleberry). 

 l''ruit black, V. alroco'ccum (black blueberry). 



GAYLUSSACIA (Huckleberry, Tangleberry, Dangleberry) 



Description.- ^Members of this genus are shrubs with alter- 

 nate and entire or finely toothed leaves. The inflorescence is 

 a raceme. The small white or p'mk flowers are on two-brac- 

 teolate pedicels. The calyx tube is short, iive-lobcd or 

 live-toothed, and persistent. The stamens are 10 in number, 

 and their anthers open by terminal pores. The fruit is 

 described as a berry-like drupe, or lo-celled drupe with 10 

 seed-like nutlets. The ''seeds" are each covered with 

 endocarf). 



Geographical. — The genus is distributed throughout North and South 

 .'\merica. It possesses about 40 species. There are five species of Gaylussacia 

 growing in North America. 



Kiev ru North American Species of Gaylussacia 



Leaves evergreen, tinely toothed, G. bracltyceni (box-huckleberry). 

 Leaves deciduous, entire. 



Fruit with a bloom, G. frondosa (blue huckleberry, tangleberry, dangle- 

 berry). 

 Fruit without a bloom. 

 Leaves 2 to 4 inches long, G. ursiiut (Carolina JuickKberry). 

 Leaves i to 2 inches long. 



Bracts small, deciduous, G. rcsi)iosa l^black or high-bush huckleberry). 

 Bracts large, persistent, G. dumosa (dwarf or bush huckleberry). 



Of the above species, G. resinosa is, as a rule, the common 

 black huckleberry on the market. This species is a shrub, i 

 to 3 feet high, with stilT branches, oval or oblong leaves that 

 are very resinous when young, a few pink or red flowers and 

 sweet, seedy, black fruit. It grows in sandy soil from New- 

 foundland to Georgia, westward to Kentuck}' and Manitoba. 



