Vol.. II.] 



HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 



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3. Gaylussacia dumosa (Andr.) T. &G. 

 Dwarf or Bush Huckleberry. (Fig. 2781.) 



Vaccinium dumosum Andr. Bot. Rep. 2: 112. 1799. 

 G. dumosa T. & G.; A. Gray, Man. 259. 1848. 



A branching shrub, i-2high, from a horizontal 

 or ascending base, the branches nearly erect, 

 usually leafless below, the young twigs pubescent 

 or hirsute, glandular. Leaves oblong-obovate or 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, mucronate, entire, firm or 

 coriaceous, green both sides, shining when old, 

 sparingly pubescent or glabrous, resinous, \ f -i l /z f 

 long, sessile or nearly so; flowers white, pink or red, 

 in rather loose racemes; bracts oval, foliaceous, per- 

 sistent, pubescent, equalling or longer than the 

 slender pubescent 2-bracteolate pedicels ; corolla 

 campanulate, 2 // -2j // long; filaments pubescent; 

 calyx puberulent; fruit black, without bloom, 2>"~\" 

 in diameter, watery and rather insipid. 



In sandy swamps, Newfoundland to Florida, North 

 Carolina and Louisiana. May-June. Fruit July-Aug. 



Gaylussacia dumosa hirtella (Ait.) A. Gray, Man. 259. 1848. 

 I'accinium hirtellum Ait. f. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 2: 357. 1811. 

 Pedicels and calyx hirsute. Virginia to Florida and Lou- 

 isiana. 



4. Gaylussacia brachycera (Michx.) A. Gray. 

 Box-Huckleberry. (Fig. 2782.) 



I'accinium brachycerum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. z: 234. 1803. 

 Vaccinium buxifolium Salisb. Parad. Lond. pi. 4. 1806. 

 Gaylussacia brachycera A. Gray, Man. 259. 1848. 



A low branching shrub, 6 / -i5 / high, from a horizontal 

 or ascending base, the branches erect, angular, the twigs 

 glabrous or very nearly so. Leaves thick, very coriace- 

 ous, glabrous, not resinous, persistent, evergreen, oval or 

 oblong, obtuse or acutish, %'-\' long, serrate with low 

 teeth, the margins somewhat revolute; petioles i" long or 

 jess; flowers few, white or pink in short racemes; bracts 

 and bractlets scale-like, caducous; pedicels very short; 

 corolla cylindric-ovoid, about 2" long; filaments ciliate; 

 fruit (according to A. Wood) light blue. 



In dry woods, Delaware and Pennsylvania to Virginia, May. 



2. VACCINIUM L. Sp. PI. 349. 1753. 



Branching shrubs (some species small trees) with alternate often coriaceous leaves, and 

 small white pink or red flowers, in terminal or lateral racemes or clusters, or rarely solitary 

 in the axils. Calyx-tube globose, hemispheric or turbinate, not angled, adnate to the ovary, 

 the limb 4~5-toothed or 4-5-lobed, persistent. Corolla urn-shaped, campanulate or cylindric, 

 rarely subglobose, its limb 4~5-toothed or 4-5-lobed. Stamens twice as many as the lobes 

 of the corolla, distinct, the filaments short or elongated; anthers awned or awnless, upwardly 

 prolonged into tubes, opening by terminal pores or chinks. Ovary 4-5-celled, or 8-10 

 celled by false partitions; ovules several or numerous in each cavity; style straight; stigma 

 small. Fruit a many-seeded berry. [Latin, blueberry.] 



About 125 species of wide geographic distribution. Besides the following some n others occur 

 in southern and western North America. 



-'/.- Corolla ovoid, globose, urn-shaped or cylindric, 4-s-toothed. 

 Flowers solitary.'or 2-4 together, on drooping pedicels; low shrubs. 



Most or all the flowers 4-parted and stamens 8. i. V. uliginosum. 



Flowers all or nearly all 5-parted, and stamens 10. 



Shrub 3' -6' high; leaves obovate or cuneate. 2. V. caespiiosum. 



Shrubs i-i2 high; leaves oval or oblong; northern species. 



Leaves serrulate, green both sides; berry purple -black. 

 Leaves entire or nearly so, pale beneath ; berry blue with bloom. 



V. membranaceum. 

 V. ovalifolium. 



Flowers fascicled or racemose, short-pedicelled; leaves deciduous. 

 Corolla cylindric or nearly so, 2-3 times as long as thick. 

 Flowers appearing before the leaves; berry black. 

 Flowers appearing with the leaves; berry blue with a bloom. 

 Corolla urn-shaped, oblong or oblong-cylindric, 1-2 times as long as thick. 

 Leaves not glaucous; glabrous or pubescent beneath. 

 Leaves mostly entire, pubescent beneath. 



Shrub 3-i5 high; leaves oval, large; fruit black. 7. V. alrococcum. 



5. y. virgatum. 



6. V. corymbosum. 



