. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. Order 73.—ERICACE^. 481 Suborder I. VACCINES. The Bluebeury Tribe. i. GAYLUSSAXIA, H. B. K. Huckleberry. (In honor of the distinguished chemist, Gay-Lussac.) Calyx adherent, 5-toothed; corolla urceolate or campanulate, 6-cleft or toothed; stamens 10, anthers awn- h.'ss, the cells produced upwards into tubular beaks opening at the apex; berry drupe-like, globular,
. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. Order 73.—ERICACE^. 481 Suborder I. VACCINES. The Bluebeury Tribe. i. GAYLUSSAXIA, H. B. K. Huckleberry. (In honor of the distinguished chemist, Gay-Lussac.) Calyx adherent, 5-toothed; corolla urceolate or campanulate, 6-cleft or toothed; stamens 10, anthers awn- h.'ss, the cells produced upwards into tubular beaks opening at the apex; berry drupe-like, globular, 10-celled, 10-seeded.—Shrubs resembling the Vaccinia. Lvs, often resinous-dotted beneatli. FIs. in lateral, bracted , white or reddish, small. Fr. black or dark blue, sweet. (Vao cinium L.) * Kacemes axillary. Leaves evergreen, doUoss, very smooth No. 1 * liucemes lateral. Leaves dotted hencatli,—luucroniite, thick No. 2 —not mucronate, thin N js. 3,4 1 G. buzifolia. Box Huckleberry. Very smootli; lvs. oval and ovate, finely crcnatt-dentate, tliick and fijm; rac. dense, axillary and terminal subso-ssile, tlio pedicels verv short; cor. short-ovoid; lilameuts glandular; berries liglit blue I— Rocky hills," New Bloomfield, Perry Co., Penn. (Rev. D. 11. Focht), W. Va. {Guv- tis) and E. Tenn. A handsome little evergreen, If high, with leaves (T—9'' liy 4—5") like those of the Box, and white rls. delicately tinged with red. May. (V. buxifolium Salisb. V. brachycerum Mx.) 2 G. dumdsa Torr. & Gr. Brjyichlets, lvs. and pedicels sprinkled with minute bristles and resinous dots; lvs. obovate-oblong, subsessilo subcoriacoous, obtuse, mucronate, entire or ciliate-serrulate; rac. with persistent bracts; pedicels bracteo- late in the middle; cor. cylindric-eampanulate, including the stamens and style.— Swamps and thickets, Uxbridge, Mass. (Robbins), S. to Fla. A small shrub, If high, with leafy racemes. Lvs. about 16" by 7". FIs. white or purpli
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