294 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



3. On chert ridges, etc. DeKalb, Blount, Jefferson and Bibb Counties. 



4. Common. 



5. Scattered. Randolph, Tallapoosa, Elmore, Chilton, and probably all 

 the other counties. 



6A. Franklin County to Chilton. 



6B. Tuscaloosa County to Autauga. 



6C. Greene, Dallas, Autauga and Elmore Counties. 



7. Near Sardis, Dallas Count}^ 



8. Pike, Barbour and Russell Counties. 



9. Sumter County. 



lOE. Frequent throughout. 



low. Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox, Alonroe and Butler Counties. 



11. Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe and Conecuh Counties. 



12. Washington and Geneva Counties; rare. 



13. Mobile, Baldwin and Covington Counties ; rare. 



VACCINIACEAE. HucklEbKrry Family. • 



This family, with ahottt 25 genera and 325 species, mostly 

 shrubs, was formerly combined with the Ericaceae, which 

 it resembles in flower structure and general appearance, and also 

 in having a partiality for acid soils ; but it is now separated on the 

 technical character of having the ovary inferior, i. e., united with 

 the calyx nearly to the top. The fruit is a berry, edible in most 

 species ; and the leaves do not seem to be poisonous, as those of 

 many Ericaceae are. 



GAYLUSSACIA, Humboldt, Bonpland & Kuntli. The Huckleberries. 

 Gaylussacia dumosa f Andr.) T. & G. (GophKr-berry). 



A low evergreen almost unbranched shrub, a foot or less in 

 height, with white bell-shaped flowers in April and May and black 

 berries in summer and fall. The berries are edible, but not very 

 sweet or abundant. 



Grows in dry open woods with siliceous soil, especially in 

 long-leaf pine regions. 



2A. Cullman and DeKalb Counties. 

 2B. Walker and Tuscaloosa Counties. 



3. DeKalb, P",towah and Talladega Counties, mostly on chert ridges. 



4. Talladega and Clay Counties. 



5. Cleburne, Tallapoosa, Elmore and Chilton Counties. 



6B. Tuscaloosa, Hale, Bibb, Chilton, Autauga and Elmore Counties. 



6C. Autauga County. 



9. Sumter Countv. 



lOE. Pike County. 



low. Choctaw and Monroe Counties. 



12. Washington and Covington Counties. 



13. Mobile, Clarke, Baldwin, Covington and Geneva Counties. 



