Gaylussacla. ERICACEAE. 19 



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

 urceolate, 4^5-lobed, marcescent. Stamens 8 or 10 : filaments filiform, long-hairy above the 

 middle : anthers oblong ; the cells opening from apex to base into two unequal valves. 

 Ovary ovate, contracted at apex into a long style, tipped with a depressed-capitate um- 

 bilicate and pervious stigma : placentae 4, with broad divergent lamellae, which meet at 

 adjacent edges, ovuliferous on botli 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 X. and S. America) ; 

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

 ferous, flowers in lateral racemes from separate scaly buds, bracteate 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. N. Y. 

 i. 448 ; Gray, Chloris (Mem. Am. Acad, iii.), 51, ec Man. Bot. Decachce?ia, r £ovr. 

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

 Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 260 (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 high or less : brandies 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, shorter than the filiate filament. — Man. ed. 1, 259. Vaccinium brac/u/cerum, Michx. 

 Fl. i. 234. V. buxifolium, Salisb. Farad, t. 4 ; Bot. Mag. t. 928 • Bot. Cab. t. 048. — Wooded 

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

 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 the former year. 



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

 aceous and persistent: anthers with filiform tubular appendages longer than the cells 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-spatulate, veiny, conspicuously ran- 

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

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

 mostly pubescent, watery and rather insipid. — Gray, Man. 1. c. G. hirtellu, Torr. Fl. N. Y. 

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

 rii. 566. V. fmndomm, Michx. 1. c, not L. Diramerium dumosinn, 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. Branehlets and especially racemes and ovary, and some- 

 times the leaves, glandular-hirsute or hispid. — O. hirtellu, Klotzsch in Linn. xiv. 48. Vac- 

 cinium hirtellum, Ait. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 357 ; Dunal, 1. c. — Chiefly Southern States. 



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

 ■*— 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 (i feet 

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



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



tubular tips: fruit dark blue and glaucous, sweet and edible (Blue Tangle or Blue 



Huckleberry). — Vaccinium frondosum, L. ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 140. V nenustam. Ait. Kew. 



ed. 1, ii. 11. V. alaucum, Michx. 1. c. V. ducanteracar/mn, Dunal, 1. c. excl. syn. Wang. 



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 



tomentosum, Pursh, ined. — Georgia, Ens/in. E. Florida, Dr. E. Palmer. 



