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Huckleberry Family 



Vacciniaceae 

 Dwarf Huckleberry; Gopherberry 



Gaylussacia dumosa (Andrews) Torrey & Gray 



Plate iS7b 



A low, branching shrub, i to 2 feet high from a horizontal or spreading 

 base and woody rootstock, the branches erect or nearly so, usually leafless 

 below, the young parts glandular and pubescent. Leaves oblanceolate or 

 oblong-obovate, blunt, entire, firm, green on both sides, shining when mature, 

 sparingly hairy or smooth, resinous or glandular, i to i\ inches long, sessile 

 or nearly so. Flowers white, pink or nearly red, in rather long and loose 

 racemes with numerous oval, leaflike bracts; corolla bell-shaped, slightly 

 less than one-fourth of an inch long, the margin five-lobed; filaments 

 pubescent. Fruit a black berry, without bloom, one-fourth to one-third 

 of an inch in diameter and rather tasteless. 



In sandy or rocky soil, often in swampy depressions, Newfoundland to 

 Florida and Louisiana, near the coast. Flowering in May and June. 



Large or American Cranberry 



Oxycoccus macrocarpus (Aiton) Pursh 



Plate I58a 



A trailing bog plant with perennial, somewhat woody, slender, 

 creeping stems, rooting at the nodes, the branches 5 to 10 inches long, and 

 ascending, forming dense mats or thickly interwoven with moss and other 

 vegetation of the bog. Leaves alternate, very short petioled, thick, ever- 

 green, oval, oblong or slightly obovate, blunt at both ends, entire, one- 

 fourth to two-thirds of an inch long, one-third of an inch wide or less, pale 

 or glaucous beneath and slightly revolute on the margins. Flowers pink, 

 one-third to one-half of an inch broad, nodding on erect stalks, usually 

 somewhat racemosely clustered. Stamens eight or ten, the filaments dis- 

 tinct, the anthers united into a long-pointed cone, prolonged upward when 



