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HEATH FAMILY 



anthers without awns, prolonged upward into 2 tubes and opening by 

 apical pores; pistil of 5 united parts, ovary inferior, 10-celled through 

 the development of false partitions, each cell with one ovule, style straight, 

 thread-like, stigma terminal, scarcely lobed; fruit a berry-like drupe with 

 ten stones which are more or less solidly grown together. 



About 40 species, all American and for the most part South Ameri- 

 can, about 5 occur in eastern North America. 



Gaylussacia baccata (Wangenheim) L. Koch 1872 Huckleberry 

 Gaylussacia resinosa (Aiton) Torrey and Gray 1843 



Branching shrub, 3 dm.-l m. high; stems stiff, gray, young twigs 

 hairy; leaves alternate, ovate or ovate lanceolate, tough and somewhat 

 leathery, resinous dotted, smooth except for slight hairiness on the margin 

 and along the larger veins, green on both sides, somewhat pale below, 

 margin entire, tip acute or rounded, base wedge-shaped, leaves 2-4 cm, 

 long, 1-1.7 cm. wide, petioles about 1 mm. long; flowers in small lateral 

 racemes from scaly winter buds; peduncles and pedicels resinous dotted, 

 pedicels about 6 mm. long, calyx tube hemispherical, free tips of sepals 

 broadly triangular, corolla tubular bell-shaped, 5-sided, reddish, 3-4 mm, 

 long, about 2 mm. wide, stamens included, filaments short, hairy ; fruit 

 black, about 6 mm. in diameter, edible : baccata, having berries. 



• Dry sandy soil, Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to Georgia and 

 Kentucky. In Minnesota apparently very rare, barely entering the eastern 

 border of the state ; there are specimens in the herbarium of the University 

 of Minnesota from near Winona, and from Washington County, east of 



