. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . cky. Black-snap. 2. Gaylussacia baccata (Wang.) K. Koch. Black or High-bush Huckleberry. Fig. 3253. Andromeda baccata Wang. Beitr. 111, />/. jo. /. 6g. 1787. I'accinium resinosum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789. G. resinosa T. & G.; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i: 449. 1843. G. baccata K. Koch, Dendr. 2: 93. 1869-72. A shrub, i°-3° high, with ascending or erect stiff grajish branches,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . cky. Black-snap. 2. Gaylussacia baccata (Wang.) K. Koch. Black or High-bush Huckleberry. Fig. 3253. Andromeda baccata Wang. Beitr. 111, />/. jo. /. 6g. 1787. I'accinium resinosum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789. G. resinosa T. & G.; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i: 449. 1843. G. baccata K. Koch, Dendr. 2: 93. 1869-72. A shrub, i°-3° high, with ascending or erect stiff grajish branches, the young shoots commonly pubescent. Leaves oval or oblong, rarely obovate, obtuse or acutish, entire, very resinous when young, mucronulate. glabrous or very nearly so and green on both sides, firm, i'-2' long; petioles about i" long; flowers few, pink or red, in short one-sided racemes; bracts small, reddish, deciduous, shorter than or equalling the usually 2-bracteolate pedicels; corolla ovoid-conic, 5-angIed. becoming campanulate- cylindric, 2"-2i" long; filaments ciliate; fruit black without bloom, or bluish and with a bloom, rarely white or pink, about 3" in diameter, sweet but seedy. In woods and thicke foundland to Georgia. May-June. Fruit ripe July-Aug. 3. Gaylussacia dumosa (.\nclr Vacci, ) T. 'iiosiim Andr. Bot. Rep. 2: pt. 11 I'accinium hirtcllum Ait. f. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 2: 357. 1811. G. dumosa T. & G.; A. Gray, Man. 259. 1848. Gaylussacia dumosa hirtella A. Gray, Man. 259. 1848. A branching shrub. l°-2° high, from a horizontal or ascending base, the branches nearly erect, usually leafless below, the young twigs pubescent or hirsute, glandular. Leaves oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse, mucronate, entire, firm or coriaceous, green both sides, shining when old, sparingly pubescent or glabrous, resinous, or glandular, I'-ii' long, sessile or nearly so; flowers white, pink or red, in rather long and loose racemes; bracts oval, foliaceo
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