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Gaylussacia Mosieri Small, sp. nov. A shrub with under- 

 ground stems, the branches erect, 3-15 dm. tall, often simple 

 below, branched above, the twigs hirsute with silvery, minutely 

 gland-tipped hairs: leaf-blades elliptic to elliptic-spatulate, or 

 oblanceolate, 3-6 cm. long, firm-membranous, apiculate, spar- 

 ingly glandular-ciliate, sparingly and minutely pubescent on both 

 sides when young, somewhat veiny in age, slightly paler be- 

 neath than above, short-petioled : inflorescence branches spread- 

 ing, sometimes divaricate, pubescent like the twigs, but usually 

 more copiously so, very slender: bracts mainly elliptic to oval, 

 minutely glandular-serrulate: flower-stalks slender, pubescent 

 like the rachis, with i, 2, or 3 narrow bractlets: hypanthium 

 broadly turbinate, densely covered with long silvery minutely 

 gland-tipped hairs: sepals deltoid, slightly acuminate: corolla 

 white or pinkish, ellipsoid in bud, 8-9 mm. long, campanulate- 

 urceolate, longer than wide, the lobes very broadly oyate, acute: 

 stamens between 6 and 7 mm. long; filament fully 2 mm. long; 

 anther between 5 and 6 mm. long, the tubular appendages much 

 longer than the sacs: ovary depressed: style slender-columnar, 

 slightly tapering near the apex, glabrous: drupe black, sub- 

 globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter. — Hammocks, Coastal Plain, 

 Florida to Louisiana. — Spring. 



This gopherberry usually more or less closely associated wih 

 Gaylussacia dumosa, differs from that species in the habitat, the 

 tall habit, hirsute inflorescence, the larger flowers with a dif- 

 ferently shaped corolla, and the quite different stamens. Speci- 

 mens are extant in various herbaria collected in the past century 

 by Chapman, Rugel, Curtiss (Florida) ; Gates, Bush, (Alabama) ; 

 Tracy (Mississippi); Ingalls (Louisiana). Specimens collected 

 recently by the writer are: Hammock near Indian Mound, 20 

 miles east of Tallhassee, Florida, April 21, 1924, 11 187 (type for 

 flowers) ; white-cedar Swamp near Bristol, Florida, July 12, 1924, 

 1 1 145 (type for fruit). 



John K. Small 



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 almost be said that it could have been written by no one else, 



* Rehder, A. Manual, of cultivated trees and shrubs hardy in North America 

 exclusive of the subtropical and warmer temperate regions, pp. 1-930. New 

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