VACCINIACEAE 295 



Gaylussacia hirtella (Ait.f.) Klotzsch. ( Tncluding G. Mosicri, 

 Small) 



Similar to the preceding, but usually taller, with bristly stems 

 and berries. Fruit ripe in June and July, insipid. 



Grows mostly in sandy bogs, in the lower parts of the coastal 

 plain. 



12. Washington and Geneva Counties. 



13. South of Andalusia, Covington County. Swamp of Franklin 

 Creek, north of Grand Bay, Mobile County. 



Gaylussacia frondosa (L.) T. &: G. Huckleberry. 



A slender deciduous shrub often several feet tall, with incon- 

 spicuous greenish flowers and fine bluish berries, very good to eat. 

 It runs into several varieties, which seem to differ chiefly in size, 

 and are hardly worth enumerating. Blooms in April, fruit ripe 

 in June. 



Grows in low pine lands, sandy bogs, etc. Confined to the 



coastal plain, or nearly so. 



5 (?). (Near?) Auburn (Earle & Underwood). 

 6A. Chilton County. 



12. Washington, Geneva and Houston Counties. 



13. Mobile County (Mohr). Baldwin and Geneva Counties. 



BATODENDRON, Nuttall. ( Tree Hucklebhrries). 

 Batodendron arboreum (Marsh.) Nutt. (J^acciniunt arborciiiii, 

 Marsh.) Sparkleberry, or Winter Huckleberry 



A large shrub or small tree, evergreen or nearly so, with white 

 flowers in May and lather dry and gritty black berries hanging on 

 most of the winter. Dr. Mohr found specimens as much as ten 

 inches in diameter and thirty feet tall. 



In its stems, bark and wood this species resembles Kalniia 

 latifolia, and its wood can probably be used for the same purposes. 

 The leafy twigs are sometimes shipped north for decorative pur- 

 poses. The berries can be eaten, but they are hardly worth the 

 trouble of picking. 



Inhabits dry woods, rocky bluffs, cliffs, mountain summits, 

 sandy hammocks, and other places protected from fire and floods, 

 in nearly all parts of the state where less than 10% of the area 

 was cultivated in cotton in 1880. It will grow in richer soils than 

 most of the Ericaceae, but seems to avoid distinctly calcareous 

 soils. 



