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1. GAYLUSSi.CIA, HUCKLEBERRY or AMERICAN WHORTLE- 

 BERRY. (Named for the French chemist Gay-Lussac.) Flowers white 

 tinged with reddish, in late spring : the edible fruit lipe late in summer, that 

 of the first species largely gathered for the market. 



G. resinbsa, Common or Black H. Low or rocky ground, common ex- 

 cept S. W., l°-3° high, clammy-resinous when young, with rigid branches, 

 oval leaves, short one-sided racemes in clusters, rather cylindrical corolla, and 

 black fruit without a bloom. 



G. frondbsa, Blue-Tangle or Danglebekrt. Low grounds from New 

 England S., with diverging slender branches, pale leaves white beneath, slen- 

 der racemes and pedicels, short corolla, and sweet blue-black fruit with a bloom. 



G. dumbsa. Dwarf H. Sandy soil near the coast, rather hairy or bristly, 

 with thickish rather shining oblong leaves, long racemes, leaf-like oral bracts 

 to the pedicels, bell-shaped corolla, and insipid black fruit 



2. VACCI'NIUM, cranberry, blueberry, &c. (Ancient Latin 

 name, of obacure meaning.) Berry edible. (Lessons, p. 104, fig. 216.) 



§ 1. Bluebekkies, beyond New England commonly called Hucklebeeeies ; 

 with leaves deciduous at least in the Northern States ; flowers in s/iri»g in 

 clusters from scaly biids separate Jrom and rather earlier than the leaves ; 

 corolla oblong or short cylindrical, 5-toothed, enclosing the 10 anthers, berries 

 ripe in summer, sweet, blue or black with a bloom, each of the 5 many-seeded 

 cells divided into two. 



V. Pennsylvtoieum, Dwaef Eaklt Bluebeeet. Dry or barely 

 moist grounds N. and E. : 6' - 1 5' high, with green angular branches, mostly 

 lance-oblong leaves bristly-serrulate and smooth and shining both sides, the 

 sweet berries earliest to ripen. 



v. Canad6nse, Canada B. Low grounds only N., is taller, l°-2° high, 

 the broader entire leaves and branchlets downy. 



V. vaclUans, Low Pale B. Dry woodlands, less northern ; l°-3° high, 

 with yellowish branches, smooth and pale or glaucous leaves obovate or oval 

 and entire, and berries ripening later than the first. 



V. ten611uin, Southeen B. Low grounds from Virginia S. ; 1° - 3° high, 

 with greenish branches rather pubescent, obovate-oblong or oblanceolate leaves 

 scarcely serrulate and often pubescent, J' - 1' long. 



V. oorymbbsum. Common Swamp B. N. & S. in wet or low grounds : 

 3° - 10° high, with oval or oblong leaves, either smooth or downy, pale or green, 

 and sweetish hemes ripening in late summer ; in one downy-leaved variety pure 

 black without a bloom. 



§ 2. Eteegeeen BLnEBEKRiES of the South, in low pine barrens, procumbent 

 or only 1° - 2° high, with 5-toothed corolla and 10 stamens. 



V. myrsinites, with stems 6' - 20' high, lanceolate or lanco-obovate leaves 

 J' - 1 ' long and mostly pale beneath, and black or blue berries. 



V. crassifdlium, with procumbent slender stems, thick and shining oval 

 or oblong leaves ^' or less in length, their margins revolute, globular-bell-shaped 

 corolla, and black hemes. 



§ 3. Pakkleberkt and Deeebekky ; erect shr«bs with single axillary or 



racemed flowers on slender pedirels, in early summer, open-bell-shaped 



corolla, 10 stamens, anthers with very slender tubes and 2 awns on the back, 



and insipid berries ripening late, each of their 5 cells divided into two, and 



maturing few seeds. 



V. arbbreum, Eaekleberet. Open woods from Virg. and S. 111. S. : 



8°- l.'S" high, evergreen far S., with oval glossy loaves, anthers included in the 



5-toothed white corolla, and black mealy berries. 



V. stamineum, Dehrberky or Squaw-Hucklebeeet. Dry woods, 

 N. & S. : 2° - 3° high, rather downy, with dull and pale ovate or oval leaves, 

 anthers nrach longer than the greenish or wliitish 5-cleft corolla, and large 

 greenish berries. 



