Gaylussacia. ERICACEAE. 19 



34. NEWBERRY A. Calyx incomplete, of 2 bract-like entire sepals. Corolla tubular- 

 urceolate, 4-5-lobe(l, marcfM'ent. Stamens 8 or 10 : fiUiments filiform, long-liairy above the 

 niiikUe : anthers oblong; the cells opening from ajjex to bi^se into two unequal valves. 

 Ovary ov.ite, contracted at ape.v into a lonjj style, tipped with a depressed-capitate uni- 

 bilicate and pervious stigma: placenta; 4, with broail divergent laniellie, wliich meet at 

 adjacent edges, ovuliferous on both sides, giving the appearance of four exterior cells 

 surrounding a central larger one. 



1. GAYLUSSACIA, HBK. Huckleberry. (In honor of a distin- 

 guished French chemist, Gay-Lussac.) — Shrubs (of Eastern N. and S. America) ; 

 with either evergreen or deciduous leaves, commonly glandular or resinous-atomi- 

 ferous, flowers in lateral racemes from separate scaly buds, braeteate and often 

 bracteolate pedicels, reddish or greenish or white corolla, and edible fruit. 

 Flowering in spring; fruit ripe in summer, blue or black. — Torr. Fl. X. Y. 

 i. 4-18 ; Gray, Cldoris (Mem. Am. Acad, iii.), 51, & Man. Bot. Decachesna, Torr. 

 & Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. xlii. 43 (1841). Decamerium, Xutt. in Trans. Am. 

 Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 2(;0 (1843). 



§ 1. Leaves thick and evergreen, somewhat serrate, destitute of resinous atoms. 



G. brachycera, Gray. Very smooth and glabrous, the young parts barely puberulent, 

 a foot higli or less: branches angled: leaves oval (half to full inch long) : racemes in the 

 axils, short, almost sessile, of few crowded flowers : bracts and bractlets scaly, caducous : 

 corolla cylindraceous-campanulate, white or flesh-color, 2 lines long : anthers slightly 

 pointed, sliorter than the ciliate filament. — JIan. ed. 1, 2o0. Vaccinium brachi/ceruiii, Michx. 

 n. i. 2:34. T: biudfolium, Salisb. Parad. t. 4; Bot. Mag. t. 28; Bot. Cab. t. 648. — 'Wooded 

 hills, Alleghanies, from Perry Co., Penn. (Baird), to Virginia. Sussex Co., Delaware, ^4. 

 Commons. Leaves like those of Dwarf Box. 



§ 2. Leaves deciduous, entire, more or less sprinkled with minute resinous or 



waxy atoms : racemes from axils of tlie former year. 



* Leaves thickish and almost coriaceous, green both sidie^, the upper face shining: bracts foli- 

 ace(^us and persistent : anthers with filiform tubular appendages longer than the celis and 

 almost equalling the corolla. 



, G. dumosa, Torr. & Gray. A foot or two high from a creeping base, somewhat hairy 

 and glandular: leaves obovate-oblong or lanceolate-spatidate, veiny, conspicuously mu- 

 cronate: racemes loose: bracts oval, as long as the slender 2-bractcolate pedicels: ovary 

 either glandular-pubescent or hairy : corolla campanulate, white or rose-red : fruit black, 

 mostly pubescent, watery and rather insipid. — Gray, ilan. 1. c. G. hirlella, Torr. Fl. X. Y. 

 i. 448. Vaccinium diimosum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 112 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1106 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 

 vii. .566. V. frondosiim, Jlichx. 1. c, not L. Decumerium dnmosum, Xutt. 1. c. — Sandy- 

 swamps, Newfoundland, and along the coast to Florida and Louisiana ; southward espe- 

 cially passing freely into 



Var. hirtella, Gray, 1- c. Branchlets and especially racemes and ovary, and some- 

 times the leaves, glandular-hirsute or hispid. — G. hirlelhi, Klotzsch in Linn. xiv. 48. I«e- 

 cinium hirlellum. Ait. Kew. ed. 2, ii. -j-jT ; Dunal, 1. c. — Chiefly Southern States. 



* * Leaves thinner, dull or paler: bracts much smaller, deciduous, 

 ■t— Branches slender and widely spreading ; flowers in very loose racemes, on long filiform pedi- 

 cels : corolla between globular and campanulate. greenish-purplish. 2 lines or less in length. 

 G. frondosa, Torr. & Gray. Glabrous, or puberulent when young, from 3 to 6 feet 

 high, with light gray branches : leaves oblong or oval-obovate, obtuse or refuse, pale, 

 whitish and very veiny beneath : bracts tardily deciduous : anthers with rather long 

 tubular tips : fruit dark blue and glaucous, sweet and ecUble (Blue Taxgle or Blue 

 Huckleberry). — Vaccinium frondosumjlj.; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 140. V. i-enuslum. Ait. Kew. 

 ed. 1, ii. 11. V. qlauaim, Michx. 1. c. 1'. decamerocarpon, Dunal, 1. c. excl. syn. AVang. 

 Decamerium frondosum, Nutt. 1. c. — Low and shaded grounds, coast of New Hampshire and 

 mountains of Penn. to Kentucky, Louisiana, and Florida. 



Var. tomentosa, a form with foliage and shoots tomentose-pubescent. — Vaccinium 

 tomeniosum, Pursh, ined. — Georgia, Enslin. E. Florida, Dr. E. Palmer. 



