HUCKLEBERRY FAMILY. 657 



VACCINIACEAE. Huckleberry Family. 



GAYLUSSACIA H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 3 : 275. 1818. 



About 40 species, South America, chiefly in Brazil. Eastern North America, 6. 

 Shrubs. 



Gaylussacia dumosa (Andr.) Torr. & Gray; Gray, Man. 259. 1848. 



DWARF HUCKLEBERRY. 



Vaccinium dumosum Andr. Bot. Rep. 11: 1. 112. 1799. 

 V. frondosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 234. 1803. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 497. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 311. Chap. Fl. 258. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1:19. 



Allegheniau to Louisianian area. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia; New Eugland 

 south along the coast to Florida, west to eastern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Lower Pine region. Dry barren siliceous soil. Clay 

 County, ascending to 2.000 feet, Emorya Gap. Flowers white, April; fruit ripe in 

 June, July, shining black, smooth or slightly hispid. 



Shrubby from a horizontally creeping root 4 to 8 inches high. Rare in the moun- 

 tains, abundant in the dry pine barrens of the coast region. 



Type locality : il Introduced from North America in the year 1783." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Gaylussacia hirtella (Ait.f.) Klotzsch, Linnaea, 24:48. 1851. 



HAIRY HUCKLEBERRY. 



Vaccinium hirtellum Ait. f. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 2 : 357. 1811. 



Gaylussacia dumosa hirtella Gray, Man. 259. 1848. 



Chap. Fl. 258; ed. 3, 280. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1:19. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia, along the coast to Florida, and west 

 to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Wet sandy borders of pine-barren 

 streams. Washington and Mobile counties. Flowers white; May, several weeks 

 later than G. dumosa. Fruit ripens July, August; black, hispid by stiff hairs, insipid. 

 Most frequent in the Coast plain and the adjacent Lower Pine region. Shrub 2 to 3 

 feet high. The habit of growth, habitat, and the other obvious permanent charac- 

 ters render this mesophile shrub sufficiently distinct to warrant its separation from 

 V. dutnosum and to have its specific rank restored. 



Type locality: "Native of North America." 



Herb'. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Gaylussacia frondosa tomentosa Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 19. 1878. 



HOARY HUCKLEBERRY. 



Gaylussacia tomentosa Pursh; Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1:19. 1878. As 

 synonym. 



Readily distinguished from the type by the low slender growth, scarcely over a 

 foot in height, branched and leafy from the base, by the close, short, more or less 

 ferruginous pubescence of the branches and on the lower side of the leaves, which 

 are from 1 to 1 inches long, to f- inch wide, oblong-ovate, attenuated toward 

 the base, almost sessile, finely and prominently reticulated ; and further by the short 

 erect-spreading pedicels scarcely over -J- inch long. 



Louisianian area. Georgia to eastern Florida. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Shaded border of woods. Mobile 

 County, Springhill. Flowers white; April. Not infrequent. Specimens collected 

 by Professors Earle and Underwood at Auburn of a glaucous hue; pubescence pale, 

 reticulation of the leaves wider and less prominent, and the racemes longer and 

 loosely flowered, connect this variety with the northern typical form. 



Type locality : "Georgia, Enslin. E. Florida, Dr. E. Palmer." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



VAC CINITJM L.Sp. PL 1:349. 1753. BLUEBERRY. BILBERRY. 



Over 100 species, extra tropical regions, Northern Hemisphere, excepting the Afri- 

 can species. North America, 24 to 26. Shrubs, rarely arborescent. 

 Vaccinium arboreum Marsh. Arb. Am. 157. 1785. FARKLEBERRY. SPARKLEBERRY. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 495. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 312. Chap. Fl. 259. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 20. 

 Sargent, Silv. N. A. 5 : 119, t. 230. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Central Tennessee, west to southern Illinois, 

 southern Missouri and Arkansas, south to North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Barren, siliceous soil, open woods nnd 

 copses. Flowers white, April to June ; fruit ripe September to December, shining 



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