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23. Pypola. Acaulescent. Flowers in a raceme. Petals not widely spreading. Filauienta 



awl-shaj.ed. Style long. Valves of the capsule cobwebby on tlie edj;.-.s. 



SuiiOKDER IV. Moiiotropetc. ([ndian-pipk Family.) Flow- 

 ers nearly as in Suborders 2 or 3, hut the ])lants herba(e()u.>^, ruot-panv- 

 sitic, entirely destitute of green foliaj!:e, and with the aspect of Beech-dro]).s. 

 Seeds as in Sui)()rder 3. 



« Corolla«ionopetalous ; anthers 2-celled. 



24. Pterospora. Corolla ovate, 5-toothed; anthers 2-awned on the back, opening lengthwise. 



25. Schweinitzia. Corolla broadly bell-sliapud, 5-lobed ; antliers opening at the top. 



* * Corolla of 4 or 5 separate petals; calyx imperfect or bract-like. 



26. Monutropa. Petals narrow. Anthers kidney-shaped, opening across the top. 



1. GAYLUSSACIA, HBK. Hicklehkrry. 



Corolla tubidar, ovoid, or bell-shaped ; the border 5-c'left. Stamens 10; an- 

 thers awnless; the cells tapering upward into more or less of a tube, opening 

 by a chink at the end. Fruit a berry -like drupe, containing 10 .seed-like nutlets. 

 — Branching shrubs, with the aspect of Vaccinium, commonly sprinkled with 

 resinous dots; the flowers (white tinged with purple or red) in lateral and 

 bracted racemes. (Named for the distinguished chemist, fjoi/-Lussac. ) 

 * Leaves thick and evergreen, someu-hat serrate, not resinous-dotted. 



1. G. braehycera, Gray. (Box-Hucklebekrv.) Very smooth (1° 

 high); leaves oval, finely crenate-toothcd ; racemes short and nearly sessile ; 

 pedicels very short ; corolla cylindrical-bell-shaped — Wooded hills, Perry Co., 

 Teun., to Del. and Va. May. — Leaves resembling those of the Box. 



* * Leaves deciduous, entire, spri7ikled more or less with resinous of waxy atoms. 



2. G. dumbsa, Torr. & Gray. (Dwarf Huckleberry.) Someichat 

 hairi) and glandular, low (1 -5° high from a creeping base), bushy, leaves ob- 

 ovate-oblong, mucronate, green both sides, rather thick and shining when old ; 

 racemes elongated ; bracts leaf-like, oval, persistent, as long as the pedicels ; ovart/ 

 bristlij or glandular ; corolla bell-shaped , fruit black (insipid) — -Var hirtella 

 has the young branchlets, racemes, and often the leaves hairy. — Sandy swamp.s. 

 Xewf., along the coast to Fla. and La. ; the var. chiefly southward. June. 



3. G. frondosa, Torr. & Gray (BlueTaxule. Danglebehuv.) Smooth 

 (3-6° high); branches slender and divergent; leaves obovate-oblong, blunt, 

 pale, glaucous beneath ; racemes slender, loose , bracts oblong or linear, decidu- 

 ous, shorter than the slender droojung pedicels; corolla globular-bellshaped • 

 fruit dark blue with a white bloom (sweet and edible) — Low copses coa.^t of 

 N. Eng. and mountains of Penn. to Ky.. south to La ami Khi. May. June 



4. G. resinbsa, Torr & Gray. (Black IIicKLEBERRV. ) Much branched, 

 rigid, slightlji pubescent when young (1-3° high) , leaves oval, oblong-ovate, or 

 oblong, thickly clothed and at first clammi/, as well as the floweis, with shining 

 resinous globules ; racemes short, clustered, one-sided ; pedicels about the length 

 of the flowers ; bracts and bractlcts (reddish) small and deciduous , corolla ovoid- 

 conical, or at length cylindrical with an o])en mouth ; fruit black, without bloom 

 (pleasant, very rarely white). — Hocky woodlands and swamj^s, Newf. to Minn. , 

 south to N. Ga. May, June. — 'I'he common Huckleberry of the markets 



