156 Heath (Rricacece) 



(i) Genus GAY^SSACIA, H. B. K. (Huckleberry.) 



Flowers, white or tinged with red, in loose lateral clusters. 

 Corolla, egg-shape, tubular, or bell-shape ; five-lobed. 

 Calyx, yellowish-green, with resinous dots. Stamens, 

 ten. Anther -cells, tapering upward, and opening by 

 a chink at the end, with no small hooks at the back. 

 Seed-case, ten-celled and ten-seeded, adherent to 

 the calyx. 



Leaves, alternate, entire (excepting in Box Huckleberry, 

 and sometimes in Dwarf Huckleberry), and more or 

 less resinous dotted (excepting in Box Huckleberry). 



Fruit, black or dark blue, round, ten-celled, ten-seeded, 

 'crowned with the teeth of the calyx. A berry. 



Fig. 70. Common Black Huckleberry. G. resinbsa (Ait.) y 



T. and G. 



Flowers, drooping, in short, one-sided clusters. Corolla, 

 contracted at the mouth, longer than the stamens, 

 shorter than the style. Bracts of the flower-clusters, 

 small, reddish, and soon falling away. Flower-stems, 

 each about the length of the blossom. May, June. 



Leaves, one to two and one half inches long, entire, egg- 

 shape and oval to reverse egg-shape, pointed or 

 somewhat blunt, thickly sprinkled more thickly 

 than are any other of the huckleberries with bright 

 resinous globules. 



Fruit, black (very rarely white), sweet. August. 



Found, from Northern Georgia and Tennessee northward. 

 Common in woods and open fields. 



A stiff, much-branched shrub, one to three feet high, 

 yielding the " huckleberry" of the markets. 



