BOX HUCKLEBERRY 



and shining above, pale green, glabrous or downy beneath, and 

 conspicuously sprinkled with resinous dots above and below ; 

 midvein and primary veins deeply depressed above. Autumnal 

 tints purplish, scarlet, and orange. 



Flowers. — May, June. Perfect, white, pink or red bells, 

 borne in rather loose racemes. Bracts leaf-like, oval, persistent, 

 as long as the pedicels. 



Calyx. — Glandular, adnate to the ovary, five-toothed; teeth 

 acute and fringed. 



Corolla. — White, pink or red, bell-shaped, five-angled, five- 

 toothed ; teeth short and somewhat recurved. 



Stamens. — Ten ; filaments downy ; anthers long, awnless, 

 two-celled ; cells prolonged into tubes opening at the apex. 



Pistil. — Ovary inferior, ten-celled, each cell containing one 

 ovule ; style long and slender. 



Fruit. — Berry-like drupe, depressed globose, black and shin- 

 ing, about one-fourth of an inch in diameter, rather insipid ; 

 nutlets ten. August. 



The Dwarf Huckleberry, a small shrub from a creep- 

 ing base, is not very abundant, nor is its fruit very 

 good. Leaves, branchlets, flower stems and calyx are 

 sprinkled with glandular and resinous dots. 



BOX HUCKLEBERRY 



Gaylussacia brachycera. 



A low shrub, six to fifteen inches high ; 

 branches erect ; twigs smooth ; leaves resembling 

 those of the box. In dry woods, from Delaware 

 and Pennsylvania to Virginia. 



Leaves. — Evergreen, thick, leathery, smooth, 

 not resinous, oval or oblong, one-half to one inch 

 long, wedge-shaped at base, crenate-serrate, some- 

 what revolute, obtuse or acute at margin. Petioles 

 short. 



Flowers. — May. Small white or pink bells, in 

 few-flowered racemes. 



Box Huckleberry. 

 Gaylussacia bra- 

 chycera. A f t e r 

 Britton & Brown. 



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